Amazing Gadgets and Technologies That Will Satisfy Your Tech Cravings This 2015

With all these new tech toys, both out and still upcoming -- wearables, smart devices, mobile technology, Internet things, and everything in between, there's so much in store for tech enthusiasts this 2015. Although some are not yet out in the market, the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2015 unveiled them recently, along with the R&Ds and prototypes that were released last year from different companies and organizations.

So let's take a look at some of these new and upcoming gadgets to give you a better idea.

Apple Watch	Apple has finally joined the smartwatch battle. Some of its significant specs include retina display, with the smaller watch sporting a 1.5-inch 272 x 340 display, while the larger variant has a 1.65-inch 312 x 390 screen. Its display can sense force via a new feature called Force Touch, which allows the device to distinguish between a tap and a press for more contextually specific controls. Another feature is the Taptic Engine, which offers haptic feedback for your wrist, tapping you with notifications or on specific sides of your wrist for Apple Maps navigation. It also has a heart rate sensor and Digital Touch that allows you to reply with a little hand-drawn message instead. When the Apple Watch does eventually go on sale, there will be three model choices -- each with two display sizes to suit different wrist sizes. The company promised to launch the smartwatch on the first quarter of 2015, no precise date at this point.
Sony Steel Edition SmartWatch 3	Sony is also taking its turn at wearable devices with this matte-finished steel edition SmartWatch 3. It's powered by a Qualcomm chipset in standard 24mm watch strap for non-stop hours of fitness activities. What's good about this smartwatch is that the main module can be popped out and put in other surrounds, making it easy to change between styles if ever you would like to get all active with it. Specifications include a 1.6-inch, 320 x 320 transflective LCD display and built-in GPS to help track your running (a unique part of Sony's Android Wear device). The Sony Steel Edition SmartWatch 3 will be rolling out in February this year.
Smartphone app that helps diagnose sleeping disorders	Are you looking for something that can help you diagnose sleeping problems? An app that does just like that is now under development. A team of researchers at Stevens Institute of Technology and Florida State University are currently working on a project that will enable your smartphone to listen to and monitor your breathing while you sleep without wearables. It was featured in MIT Technology Review and the said smartphone app will be developed this year.
Fin	Over the years, people have become too bored using the remote control in switching between channels. Fin, a bluetooth-enabled device, comes with a gesture interface that allows you to control smart devices like your TV. Fin has three built-in sensors for the beam signals to work with a 100 metre range between the hand and the smart device. It's not yet available in the market, although RHLvision offers pre-order, and that a prototype has already been produced.
Project Ara by Google	Reinventing the way we build, buy, and use smartphones in the future is the main objective of Google's Project Ara. It's not a phone for now, but a project being worked on using DARPA philosophy instead. The components of the phone are composed of magnetic modules that are networked to communicate with each other to function seamlessly like a smartphone.