Google Calendar: Ultimate Guide

Everything you need to know about Google Calendar.

Google Calendar is an amazing and useful app because it’s more than that — it’s a cross-platform service that is as elegant as it is versatile.

It starts by being pre-loaded on your Android phone, tablet or Chromebook, and it goes from there. It’s on the web, and it’s on iOS. You can use it by yourself or share it with others. You can even subscribe to public calendars that are separate but perfectly integrated into your own. And the best part is that it syncs seamlessly in the Google Cloud, so you never have to worry that you’ve lost something.

How to add events and reminders

Google Calendar allows you to easily keep track of your busy schedule. With events and reminders, you can ensure that you never forget the important days, no matter how busy you get. We’re here to show you how to do it all the right way.

How to add events and reminders to Google Calendar for Android

How to change your Google Calendar view, the color of events, and return to today’s date

Google Calendar is one of the easiest ways to keep track of all the moving parts in your life, from upcoming birthdays to meetings you need to attend. Now the default view on Calendar will show you your schedule, and what you’ve got coming up next. Sometimes you want to check on things further out on your schedule, though, and for that you may want to change your calendar view.

That includes changing the color of events so that they pop out when you take a quick look at your schedule. We’ve also got the details on quickly returning to today’s date with just a tap, so you can ensure you’re always looking in the right place. Thankfully Google has made this really easy, and we’ve got all the details.

How to change your Google Calendar view, the color of events, and return to today’s date

How to add a goal

Plenty of us already use Google Calendar to keep track of the many different parts of our lives. On top of making events and reminders you can also set goals for yourself. These include goals for exercising, work, friends, and plenty more. We’ve got the details for you here on how to set one up.

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Uber is bringing its food delivery service to India

Uber’s on-demand online food delivery service is coming to India.

Uber has announced that its standalone food delivery app UberEATS will be making its debut in India shortly. The service is currently available in 58 cities around the world, and will launch in at least six cities across India.

From UberEATS’ Asia Pacific head Allen Penn:

I am incredibly excited about bringing UberEATS to India. This is a significant investment, it spans multiple cities and regions, and it has the potential to change the food industry – with the push of a button – in one of the most vibrant food cultures in the world.

Ahead of the service’s debut, Uber is looking for delivery and restaurant partners. Uber is also asking users to submit restaurants they’d like to see on the service, so if you’re interested, you can nominate your favorite restaurant by filling out this sheet.

Sprint acquires 33% of Tidal, will offer customers exclusive music

Carrier partnership comes amid fresh controversy over subscriber numbers.

Sprint will acquire a 33% share in music streaming service Tidal, the two companies have announced, as part of a deal that will bring the carrier’s customers “unlimited access to exclusive artist content not available anywhere else.”

“TIDAL and its artists will make exclusive content that will only be available to current and new Sprint customers,” Sprint’s press release claims, without going into detail on exactly what form this will take. Jay Z and Tidal’s other artist-owners — including the likes of Beyonce, Calvin Harris, Kanye West and Rihanna — will continue to run the service.

Sprint had previously said it was in discussions with Tidal back in 2015; more recently, there’d been speculation on other potential buyers, including Apple.

The acquisition comes amid controversy over Tidal’s subscriber numbers. A Norweigan newspaper recently reported that Tidal’s claim of 3 million subscribers was inflated, and that according to figures given to the music industry, the real number was closer to 1.2 million. Early last year Jay Z himself said Tidal’s previous owners had inflated their subscriber figures before he purchased it for $56 million.

Whichever number is accurate, Tidal continues to lag behind Spotify and Apple Music, and if nothing else, the Sprint tie-in will open the service up to an enormous number of new users. It also gives Sprint an answer to T-Mobile’s Music Freedom service, which zero-rates data charges from some streaming services. And for Tidal, it’s easy to imagine how app preloads and other marketing tricks could help raise the service’s profile.

Samsung confirms Galaxy Note 8 exists, but Galaxy S8 will skip MWC

Galaxy S8 launch hinted for ‘next 90 days’ — but not in Barcelona in late February.

In separate interviews, Samsung’s mobile chief DJ Koh has revealed the first on-the-record information about firm’s next two major smartphone launches. The Galaxy S8 will skip Mobile World Congress at the end of February, as widely rumored, while the Galaxy Note 8 will arrive later this year. The latter point should nip in the bud speculation that Samsung would kill off the Note series after last year’s unpleasantness.

It’s official: The Note brand will live on.

Speaking to CNET ahead of last night’s Galaxy Note 7 investigation announcements, Koh directly addressed the fate of the Note series.

“I will bring back a better, safer and very innovative Note 8,” he said, adding ‘We found through the investigative process, we knew there are lots and lots of loyal Note customers.”

Koh’s remarks show Samsung belief that there’s still an audience for the Note as a product, but also that the brand itself still holds value, even after battery fires and two bungled recalls.

DJ Koh also sat down with Reuters to talk Note 7, and reportedly confirmed that the Galaxy S8 would not be coming at Mobile World Congress in late February. That trade show has been the launch platform for the past two generations of Galaxy S phones, though recent rumors have pointed to an April arrival instead.

As for exactly when we can expect Samsung’s next big thing, Samsung isn’t saying. But in an interview with Android Central’s, coming later today, Paul Brannen, EVP of Mobile Solutions for Samsung Canada, hinted at new phones coming within three months.

“If I look at the fourth quarter, we had one of our best fourth quarters in many years,” Brannen told AC Managing Editor Daniel Bader, “The S7 and S7 edge are still incredibly popular products in the marketplace, and as we add new products to the portfolio in the next 90 days, we’ll continue to build on that momentum.”

How to set up Kodi on NVIDIA Shield Android TV

How can I get Kodi on my NVIDIA Shield Android TV?

Kodi is one of the most popular and easiest ways for cord cutters to ditch their cable bill for good. It’s a very flexible open source media center (formerly known as XBMC) that’s available on many different operating systems, including Android. You may have even seen or heard of “Kodi boxes,” which are simply cheap Android boxes sold with Kodi pre-installed.

Since it’s just an Android app, this means that it’s also available for the NVIDIA Shield Android TV, which is far and away the most capable Android TV box than any others you’ll find. We’ll walk you through the basics for getting Kodi up and running, with some tips for finding and adding content and add-ons!

You can get the basic 16GB model of the NVIDIA Shield TV for $199 and that should be good enough if you’re planning on streaming most of your media content through the available add-ons, but if you’ve got a bunch of media you plan to transfer over to live directly on your device, you’ll probably want to opt for the 500GB NVIDIA Shield TV Pro.

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How to Install Kodi on your Shield Android TV

Installing Kodi onto your NVIDIA Shield Android TV is by far the easiest part of setting up the app. Since it’s available right from the Google Play Store, it’s as easy as downloading any app onto an Android device.

Open the Google Play Store app on the NVIDIA Shield Android TV.
Search for Kodi.
Select Install to download the app.

Installing Kodi is just the beginning. You’ll need to either transfer your media files to the internal storage on the console or download some Kodi add-ons to stream content over Wi-Fi. We’ll discuss how to do both.

How to transfer files to your Shield Android TV

If you’ve got videos, music, and photos that you’d like to add to your Shield Android TV, there’s a couple of ways to transfer them over.

Probably the easiest way to transfer files over would be to go into the Google Play Store and install the ES File Explorer File Manager app on your Shield Android TV. It includes a number of ways to manage and transfer files, including via cloud storage services such as Dropbox, OneDrive, Google Drive, and more. From there, you can simply upload your files to your cloud storage service of choice, then download them to the Shield Android TV using ES File Explorer.

Organize your files based on the folders in the Shield TV’s root file system so that it’s easiest to organize them in Kodi.
Once you’ve got your files transferred onto the console, it’s fairly straightforward to set things up in Kodi:

Go into Kodi.
Select the category of files you want to set up (Pictures, Music, or Videos). For this example, we’ll use Music.
Select Files.
Select Add Music….
In the pop-up window, tap Browse.
Tap External storage.
Scroll down and select the folder that you stored all your music in. Select OK.

Congrats! You have now set up that folder in Kodi as a source for your music. You can continue to add or remove music to that folder and have everything populated nicely for you in Kodi. This works the same for videos or pictures, too, so you can load in all the media you would want on hand at all times.

If you’re a little more tech savvy, you can also go about setting up an FTP Server connection between your PC or Mac and the Shield Android TV.

How to install (legal) add-ons to your Shield Android TV

Keeping files directly on the Shield Android TV is one way access your media — but it’s 2017 and streaming media is really where it’s at. Furthermore, one of the best reasons to use Kodi is its wide selection of add-ons. They are downloaded onto the Shield within Kodi via community-created repositories.

Here’s how to find and install an add-on:

From the main menu, go over to System and select Settings in the submenu.
Open the settings and click the icon labeled Add-ons.
Depending on the version of Kodi you’re running, you’ll see an icon that says Install from repository or Get add-ons. Click it.
Choose the Kodi Add-on repository.
Browse through the different add-ons available. The big three you’ll want to look for are Music add-ons, Picture add-ons, and Video Add-ons
Find an add-on that looks interesting. Click it to install.

Once the add-on has been installed, you can access it from the main menu by selecting its category, then selecting “Add-ons” from the submenu. There are dozens of add-ons available from the Kodi repository alone, so definitely take some time looking through them. For example, if you use Plex for accessing your media files across devices, you’ll definitely be interested in setting up the Plex add-on for Kodi.

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How to customize the look of Kodi on your Shield Android TV

By default, Kodi uses the Confluence skin, which offers a relatively clean and basic user interface that’s great for beginners first getting used to using the program. But you also have other skin options available for changing how Kodi is presented on your TV.

Select System on the main menu.
Go to Appearance and select Skin.
Select Get More….
Browse through the skin options available and select one to install.

From here, you can basically try out as many available skins as you want until you find a style you like. It’s essentially the exact same steps to go back and swap skins at any time.

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Good news, all 2017 Chromebooks will support Android apps

Chromebooks have always been a decent, affordable laptop alternative. Yes, you need a constant internet connection for them to work, but if you do, you gain access to all things Google. Well, nearly all things Google. Until now, only select Chromebooks have been able to support Android apps and services from the Google Play Store via an update, you can find a full list here.

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Now, Google has announced – by way of a single line of text on this page – that every single Chromebook released in 2017 will come with pre-installed access to the Play Store, no updates required.

This means 2017 Chromebooks, such as the Asus Chromebook Flip, will have out-of-the-box access to a much wider range of applications, including Netflix, Skype and the Microsoft Office suite of programs. However it isn’t clear if apps will be able to be reformatted for Chromebook screens, of if you’ll just view a much larger version of your phone’s portrait screen.

You’ll also have to take storage into account, as most Chromebooks don’t come with minimal internal storage because the majority of data is stored in the cloud.

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Nevertheless, it’s surely a welcomed move from Google, as it’s now made 2017 Chromebooks a much more viable alternative to a laptop or tablet.

Resident Evil 7 review: It’s scarily good

Once it reached its fifth and sixth iterations, Resident Evil – the franchise that defined survival-horror – had queasily mutated into a very different beast. Its horror element had more or less been shelved in favour of Hollywood-style action sequences, often bookended by dialogue of extreme cheesiness, and the gaming public voted with its feet.

Luckily, Capcom has had a major rethink, and Resident Evil 7 returns squarely to the first Resident Evil game (as well as the Revelations spin-offs) for inspiration. The resulting game is not without flaws, but it should send committed Resident Evil fans into raptures. It’s also fully PlayStation VR compatible and undeniably terrifying.

Resident Evil 7 review: It’s a first-person adventure

From the off, one major change to the gameplay is obvious: Resident Evil 7 ditches the franchise’s familiar third-person perspective in favour of a first-person one.

That was necessary to allow the game to operate on the PlayStation VR. It sounds like a brave move, but in practice it works beautifully and in no way disturbs Resident Evil’s distinctive gameplay feel. It did make us think of The Evil Within a little at first though.

So you still lumber around at a pretty sedate pace in Resi 7 (which also helps make it suitable for VR) and aiming your weapons is as clunky as ever. Which may sound antediluvian, but is actually rather comforting – it soon leaves you wondering why it took so long for the franchise to go first-person.

Resident Evil 7 review: Where’s the game set?

Resident Evil 7’s present-day setting, however, is all-new: the satisfyingly miasmic swamplands of Dulvey, Louisiana.

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The (also new) character you play, Ethan Winters, is searching for his wife, Mia, who has been missing for years and apparently sends him a video by email from beyond the grave. His investigations take him to a decaying, abandoned house in the bayou.

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Since gaining entrance to the house is the first challenge (Ethan starts without any weapons or objects), it instantly becomes obvious that Resident Evil 7 is channelling the very first game of the series. Breaking in, Ethan finds evidence that a number of people (including, amusingly, two frat-boy types making a Ghost Hunters-style show) have disappeared in the vicinity in recent years.

Catching glimpses of strange-looking people, you must explore the wonderfully creepy house until, after a series of jump-shocks (which are really effective in VR), you unexpectedly find Mia. But there’s something very wrong with her. Ethan manages to embed an axe in her skull, but she cuts his left hand off with a chainsaw, and he passes out. Happy families and all that.

Resident Evil 7 review: A homage to the original game

On waking, he finds himself in another house in the compound, in the clutches of a hilariously dysfunctional redneck family, who delight in self-mutilation and instant regeneration. At last, a hint of classic Resident Evil-style mutation arrives. You must now employ a bit of stealth by collecting keys, objects and weapons which will allow you to break out of the house and rescue Mia.

In its early stages, Resident Evil’s full-on horror vibe is surprisingly leavened by some quite effective humour; the cheesy dialogue which polluted Resident Evil 5 and 6 is largely absent.

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Arch references to the original Resident Evil (and, especially later on, the two Revelations spin-off games) abound, so the general format is very familiar: find key objects, solve door and crawl-space-opening puzzles and locate the specifically shaped keys which open up new parts of the various houses. There are some great puzzles, including some shadow-play ones which will tax your spatial awareness.

All the while, the number of mutants you encounter increases. As ever, you start off with a handgun, before acquiring a shotgun (once again the best weapon, it’s wondrously satisfying to wield). Later, you can find a machine-gun, a burner (indispensable in one particular sequence) and a home-made grenade launcher. Weapon upgrading has been abandoned this time around, though.

Resident Evil 7 review: Inventory system

The format may be familiar, but it benefits from some tweaks, notably to the crucial inventory system, which is more accessible and less unfriendly than ever before.

Occasionally, you find bigger rucksacks which let you carry more gear, but it is still crucial to stash non-essential items in the storage-boxes which accompany the tape recorders (not typewriters, alas) which allow you to save your progress.

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You still find green herbs, but in common with a lot of other objects, they must be combined with “chemical fluid” to make healing fluid (which is strong enough to reattach your foot if one of the later mutants cuts it off). Chemical fluid also lets you make handgun ammo and psychostimulants that highlight objects you might have missed.

Another new convention involves VHS videos, which can be inserted into VCRs dotted around the place and show scenes involving other characters that you can play through – these often come in handy by giving a preview of some of the more arcane puzzles, along with hints about how to progress in areas you have yet to encounter.

And naturally, there are a number of boss-battles: the first few are more or less played for laughs, while the latter ones conform more to what you would expect from past Resident Evil games. As in they’re bloody difficult.

Resident Evil 7 review: Playing in VR

You can play the whole of Resident Evil 7 on a PlayStation VR headset and, happily, the game really works well in virtual reality.

There is a trade-off – the lower resolution when you switch to a PS VR is noticeable – but VR hugely ramps up the element of horror, to such an extent that it really isn’t for the faint-hearted. It’s pant-wettingly scary, in fact.

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The default control system is slightly tweaked for PS VR: pushing the right stick left or right rotates your character in 30-degree increments, and you can sort of strafe at an angle by moving your head. Once you learn to leave the right stick alone when confronted by mutants in the VR world, and to target your headshots by simply moving your head to aim, everything clicks.

Playing in VR adds a glorious extra level of immersiveness – backgrounds which are dark on a TV screen are revealed in all their fetidness in VR, and the ability to poke your head into things means you often spot objects you would otherwise miss.

We’d probably recommend tackling the more exploratory sequences in VR, although we did successfully take on some boss-battles in VR, which also had extra impact – it’s almost impossible to avoid ducking when a mutant’s death-throes shower you with slime.

Story-wise, Resident Evil 7 dials things back somewhat, keeping proceedings pretty claustrophobic and intimate until the latter stages, at which point things become a bit more manic. But the story builds in a much more believable fashion than Resident Evils 5 and 6, and includes a few great twists. Cleverly, there isn’t much dialogue in the game, but videos and flashbacks fill in the gaps impressively.

Verdict

Resident Evil 7 feels like a really decent horror movie that places you at its controls. It’s undeniably terrifying, the first-person approach feels fresh, while its homage to the earlier (and decent) Resi games is a nod to how good the game can be.

There are some noticeable shortcomings though. It took us 18-hours to play through in a fairly unhurried fashion, which isn’t enormously long, and it really could do with a Revelations-style Raid Mode. At least after the first play-through you unlock a new difficulty level called Mayhem, along with the odd new gun and ability. There’s one incongruous note when you play it on PS VR, too: occasionally your arms come into view, which are cut off below the elbow.

If you’re a horror aficionado who craves shocks then you will love Resident Evil 7, particularly in VR. And if you’re a fan of the early Resident Evil games and Revelations, you’ll also love it. Those of a nervous disposition should probably steer well clear – but for the rest of us, it’s a return to form which should have been triggered years ago.

Resident Evil 7 is scarily good.

What is Vine Camera and what can it do?

Twitter took the decision in October 2016 to kill off Vine, the video sharing app. Although, it turns out it hasn’t been completely killed off at all. Vine now lives on as Vine Camera, which you can use to create short, 6.5 second clips and either save them to your video library or post them to Twitter. Sound familiar?

But what exactly is Vine Camera, what can it do, and what’s happened to all the Vines made before the service was shut down? Allow us to explain all.

What is Vine Camera?

Vine Camera is an app for iOS and Android that lets you record videos up to 6.5 seconds long. You can then post those videos to Twitter or save them to your camera roll for private viewing. Any Vines uploaded to Twitter will automatically loop.

What can you do with Vine Camera?

Vine Camera also has a small selection of assist and editing tools. There are four assist tools available: grid, focus, ghost and flashlight. A double tap on the grid icon will bring up a level that makes sure your video remains level no matter how you hold your phone. With the editing tools you can undo or trim a clip, or reorder them however you see fit.

You can use either the rear-facing or front-facing camera on your phone to record clips, and you can mix things up for each Vine, so you’re not limited to one camera for each 6.5 second clip.

So far, everything seems the same as the Vine we’ve come to know and love. Where the two services differ is there’s now no global community. You can’t directly share your new Vines anywhere other than Twitter, and you can’t reshare any Vines made before the service shut down on 17 January 2017.

Where have my previous Vines gone?

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Vine itself is no longer active as a global community but fear not, your Vines haven’t been consigned to their death. They all live on, all 40 million or so of them, on the Vine.co website. The website has been turned into a time capsule to preserve all the clips made, but you can only view them on there, you can’t download them. You can search for Vines by year, category or view clips that Vine’s editors have recommended.

If you had a Vine account before the service officially shut down on 17 January you can still use it to log in, but if you didn’t, you can’t sign up for one now.

If you do have an account, there’s not an awful lot you can do it once you log in. You are able to delete any Vines you don’t want anymore, or delete your account, but you can’t modify any profile information including avatar, background colour and profile name.

Any Vine videos that are embedded on website pages will still work as normal “while the archive is available”. Vine hasn’t said if and when the archive will shut down, but the fact that line is written as it is, it suggests it may be shut down one day.

Facial recognition will replace passports in Australia

Australia has started implementing biometric facial, iris and fingerprint recognition in airports, allowing passengers to go through without showing a passport or even talking to anyone. The “Seamless Traveler” project is aimed at creating a “fast, seamless self-processing experience for up to 90 percent of travelers,” so that border control can focus on high-risk passengers. The handy, but invasive-sounding plan would allow international travelers to “literally just walk out like at a domestic airport,” security analyst John Coyne told Australia’s Sidney Morning Herald.

The system would replace passport-scanning SmartGates, which were implemented in the nation just ten years ago. The government’s plan to implement biometrics might be a touch ambitious, however. It still doesn’t have an actual solution in place yet, so has started seeking bids from companies “to provide innovative solutions to allow arriving travelers to self-process,” a spokesperson for the Department of Immigration and Border Protection (DIBP) said.

Though it sounds far-fetched to process 90 percent of passengers without having a system in place, the DIBP said it already hits some of those goals using SmartGates. Coyne said that in one possible implementation, passengers would be shunted through corridors and their biometrics checked, without the need to even stop. Biometrics scanners are being tested at some US airports, but only as a way to confirm passport identities.

A passenger at Grand Central Station performs an iris scan to qualify for a Clear Pass (James Leynse/Corbis via Getty Images)

Presumably, passengers would accede to having their biometrics captured and stored together with identifying information, something that raises privacy and security concerns. Like anywhere, government organizations in Australia are not immune to security hacks, for instance, and it would be a huge headache if thieves stole not just identities but iris scans and fingerprints. Facial recognition is also controversial and has led to wrongful convictions, racial profiling and other issues.

However, the Australian government ran the idea past its privacy commission and passed a law in 2015 allowing it to collect more biometric data from citizens and foreigners, including minors, at its airports. That data includes fingerprints, photos, audio, video, iris scans, fingerprints and your height and weight. It plans to start biometric trials in July at a small feeder airport in Canberra, and implement it at all international airports by March, 2019.

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I’m excited for Fitbit’s mythical smartwatch

It hasn’t been a great year for wearables, with sluggish sales and underwhelming products dominating the space. If the category had an Oscars-style ‘In Memoriam’ reel, it would feature several smartwatches that I loved deeply. For me, at least, devices from Apple, Samsung and Google that try to recreate the smartphone experience on the wrist just aren’t compelling. But those companies want to be the only games in town after the demise of low-power companies like Pebble, Vector and Basis. That is why I’m hoping that Fitbit can swoop in and produce a smartwatch that people actually want to use.

Fitbit has been buying up companies like crazy, including at least three startups that may be crucial to its future plans. Back in May, it picked up Coin, and in December it rescued Pebble from its financial woes. Then, earlier this month, it acquired Romanian startup Vector before news leaked out that it had unsuccessfully attempted to buy Jawbone. That’s not a strategy of swallowing your competitors for the hell of it, but recruiting rock-solid experience for building a potentially great smartwatch.

The clue is in the commonalities, since Pebble and Vector both developed low-power smartwatches with push-button user interfaces. We know for instance, thanks to New Balance, that buttons are a better way to interact with a watch than a touchscreen. You don’t have to take your gloves off to use them in winter, and it’s easier for runners to mark their lap times with a physical button.

Then there’s the fact that both Vector and Pebble produced devices that had always-on displays, which the Fitbit Blaze lacked. After all, you can’t subtly check the time during a dull conversation if you have to activate your watch’s display with your hand. Not to mention that both devices had much longer battery life, with Pebble lasting seven days and the Vector going for up to 30 (or more) at a time. The fact that the Vector was, basically, a classier, better-looking and longer-lasting rip off homage to the Pebble means that integrating the two should be easy.

That, in isolation, looks pretty exciting, if only because Fitbit would undoubtedly weave in its fitness-tracking know-how. And that’s to say nothing of the company’s purchase of Coin, a payments startup that built a universal digital credit card. The concept was simple: a device the size of a normal card was paired with your smartphone. You would then use the companion app to copy the payment details from each of your credit cards to the device. Then, when at a store, you could select which card you wanted to use from Coin’s memory and boom, it worked.

The second generation of the device also incorporated NFC, and Coin was already looking to leverage that technology for a payments watch. It had shaken hands with companies like Atlas Wearables, Omate and Moov to bring its technology to their devices. This, more than anything else, was likely one of the reasons that Fitbit decided to purchase Coin. After all, this universal payments system should be more flexible than either of Apple or Google’s implementation; you don’t need to wait for your bank to sign up with either tech company to start spending money.

Of course, there’s no evidence that such a device is in the works, and a Fitbit spokesperson I spoke with offered little more than a “no comment.” But the fact that Fitbit moved to buy these companies and integrate their employees into its own teams is telling. If Fitbit can strike out on its own, rather than building just another Android Wear smartwatch, its next device could be pretty exciting indeed.