Gallery: Google's Big Bet on the Future of UI: Gadgets That Predict Your Needs

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    Google-Android-Wear-Lead

    Instead of being icons arrayed on a screen, Android Wear is a stacked series of cards that the user can swipe through.
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    Glass-Detail

    The same UI is at play in Google Glass. While that product seems to face serious challenges, it's import may lie in introducing a new UI paradigm.
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    Screen-Comparison

    Google's stated goal has been to reduce the time required to do anything. They claim that by reducing the pieces of information in an Android Wear screen from six to three, the time required to read the screen drops by .9 seconds.
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    Android-Wear-Time-2

    A chart of how mobile phones break up the flow of what you're doing, whereas wearables presumably could let you stay in the flow of the real world.
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    Pinterest-Android-New

    One of the apps in development: A notification from Pinterest that alerts you when something you've pinned is nearby.
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    Android-Wear-Trulia-2

    Another app that's already in development, from Trulia, which alerts you to information about for-sale houses that are nearby.
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    Android-Wear-Conf-2

    Google believes these are just the beginning. Here, an app that would let you know who from your social graph is nearby.
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    Android-Wear-Home-2

    They also imagine your watch could become a context-aware UI for other gadgets, such as your thermostat when you're at home.
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