In pursuit of Apple: Microsoft has developed its own "smart" watches

It is much published information on the work of Apple, Google and Samsung to create a "smart" watches. According to The Wall Street Journal, did not get off to the front ranks of a promising market and the company Microsoft.

As it became known, a senior official of an Asian company met with representatives of research and development for the Microsoft negotiations on the supply of components, which can be used in an electronic bracelet. It's about touch screens with a diagonal of 1.5 inches. Thus, the American newspaper has confirmed that previously went to the level of speculation, that the Redmond company also creates wearable computer.

Thus, Microsoft has joined the list of vendors that are sure going to release the device wearable electronics: as long as it includes Google, Apple, Samsung and LG. As you know, the "apple" corporation develops its own electronic bracelet, Samsung and LG are planning to make it competitive in this area, and Google is creating augmented reality glasses, which sell to the general plans to start in about 2014.

According to rumors, to date, Microsoft is developing a design only "smart" watches, while the final decision on their release yet been taken. Representatives of the software giant does not comment on this information.

It should be noted that the experts are four main segments of the market promising wearable electronics: devices for fitness and health, medical sensors and devices, devices for industrial and military use and devices for information and entertainment.

According to the forecast Juniper Research, in the period from 2013 to 2017, sales of these devices will grow from 15 million to 70 million units. In money terms, in the future, the market will almost double - to $ 1.5 billion, compared to $ 800 million this year.