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Martian Guess Connect and its other new designs don’t look like smartwatches at all

Now playing: Watch this: Talk to your watch with Martian Monarch 1:30 Regular watches getting smarter seems to be a mini-trend at this year’s CES: first the Withings Activité Pop , and now Martian’s updated lineup of watches. The Martian Notifier launched last year, and now there’s four new watches plus the special Guess Connect, a Guess-designed variant on Martian’s …

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Better type coming to a cheap screen near you

Monotype LAS VEGAS — Font technology doesn’t excite most people during a slow news week, much less during one of the most high-profile technology shows of the year. But behind the flood of watches and wearables, the commodification of prototyping, and increasingly cost-sensitive electronics production follows the problem of readability on small, cheap, low-resolution displays. Type foundry Monotype has bundled …

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