Information Literacy.

Yohan Hyun
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1.) Smart Watches will the category, the search being No future for smart watches?

2.) Swatch Group head Nicolas Hayek Jr is saying that they will not go into the smart watch
market; stating that there is no future for smart watches. Many swatch brands then are saying
that they will also not be going into the smart watch territory i.e.; Omega, Mido, Longines, Tissot,
Breguet, and Jaquet Droz. Tag Heuer is hinting they may join the smart watch race. In
Switzerland however they consider watchmaking as still an art more than a science.


3.) Google; http://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/trouble-smartwatches Yahoo;
http://money.cnn.com/2014/09/08/smallbusiness/future-fashion-
tech/index.html?section=money_latest . The results of both of these search engines are very
different. Google seems to be much more accurate in their algorithms where Yahoo seems to go
off tangent at times and are bombarding you with ads and sales instead of articles. Although
finding an article on Yahoo isnt as you would say difficult it seems more off topic. I searched
for no future for smart watches and Yahoo gives me Top 5 Smart watches of 2014as the top
search. Whereas Google search gives me Swatch Group Head Nicolas Hayek Jr. Is Putting
Smartwatc. I would say that Google seems to be much more accurate, also faster.

4.) 1.) Was written September 9
th
2014, Does not state that it was updated.
2.) It relates directly with my previous article and it does somewhat answer my question.
3.) Vauhini Vara, the former business editor of newyorker.com, lives in San Francisco and
reports regularly on business and technology. From 2004 to 2013, she was a reporter at the Wall
Street Journal, covering California politics and Silicon Valley; her writing has been anthologized
in Dogfight at the Pentagon, a 2014 collection of page-one features from the Journal. She is
also a fiction writer, with stories published or forthcoming in Tin House, ZYZZYVA, Glimmer Train,
and elsewhere.
4.) I believe the information is trustworthy because the author gives references to surveys taken
in the US and UK in the month of August and also references to reports by the wall street
journal. I am unsure if it is tested for accuracy.
5.) I believe this article was written to inform of the current downfalls of the smart watch
territory. There seems to be no bias because this article doesnt really lean toward one product
or another, when it does talk about apple products it talks about negatives and positives making
it seem objective.
5.) -Keywords used: Smart watches
-I used the libraries -> science/technology . I used these databases because it correlates directly
with the subject I am doing.
http://search.proquest.com.ccbcmd.idm.oclc.org/sciencejournals/docview/1534532492/2EF3103E3
B194439PQ/8?accountid=3784 and
Information Literacy.
Yohan Hyun
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http://search.proquest.com.ccbcmd.idm.oclc.org/sciencejournals/docview/1459693179/2EF3103E3
B194439PQ/3?accountid=3784
6.)Ease of access to both of these sources using either the internet search engines and the scholary
articles database on the ccbc libraries website were both simple and direct ways of getting
information. The articles on the websites seem to be newer and more recent (within the first 30
days) and the articles on the libraries are somewhat older probably within the past 6-10months.
The authority of both the search engines and the libraries seem to be credible, they are all
journalists or specialists in their fields of science and technology.
7.)MLA
Biggs, John. "Swatch Group Head Nicolas Hayek Jr. Is Putting Smartwatches In The No Fly Zone |
TechCrunch." TechCrunch. AOL Incorporated, 15 Sept. 2014. Web. 18 Sept. 2014.
Vara, Vauhini. "The Trouble with Apple's Smartwatch." The New Yorker. The New Yorker, 9 Sept.
2014. Web. 18 Sept. 2014.
O'Brien, Sara Ashley. "Forget Smart Watches. This Is the Future of Wearable Tech." CNNMoney.
Cable News Network, 08 Sept. 2014. Web. 18 Sept. 2014.
Pogue, David. "Smart Watches Flunk Out." Proquest Science Journals. Scientific American, 11 June
2014. Web. 18 Sept. 2014.
Metz, Rachel. "So Far, Smart Watches Are Pretty Dumb." Proquest Science Journals. Technology
Review, 20 Nov. 2013. Web. 18 Sept. 2014.