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Tablets continue winning PCs
05
Dec
Study done by consulting firm IDC released this Wednesday ( 4/12 ) indicated that PCs 
(personal computers) sales continue to plummet in Brazil , comparing the third quarters of 2012 and 2013 was 15%
In the same period there was an increase in the marketing of tablets coming to 134 % and the tablets were excluded from the category PC , considering only desktops and notebooks .
In the third quarter of this year were sold in Brazil about 3.4 million personal computers (excluding tablets), these 61% were laptops ( notebooks ) and 39 % , desktop computers (desktops).
Between July and September this year, were sold in Brazil 1.8 million tablets despite growth in comparison with 201 , there was a decrease of 2 % compared to the previous quarter.
The forecast for the fourth quarter is an even greater volume volume in the year , with 2.6 million units sold , making it a lock in with 7.9 million tablets, indicating growth of 142 % compared to 2012 .
The outlook for 2013 is to exceed the volume of 10 million tablets .
Sony obtains patent SmartWig
04
Dec
According to a BBC report, the SmartWig can be used “in addition to natural hair”, and will be able to process data and 
communicate wirelessly with other external devices, but without clarifying how data is available, perhaps the famous glasses: Google Glass, Vuzix, Telephaty and others.
Actually it is a wig, according to the definition of the patent at the USPTO (United States Trademark Office), the device is a ” Wearable computing device, comprising a wig that is adapted to cover at least a part of a head of a user, at least one sensor for providing input data, a processing unit that is coupled to the at least one sensor for processing said input data, and a communication interface that is coupled to the processing unit for communicating with a second computing device”, thus defined is the device of Japanese patent Sony.
Patent further states that have at least one sensor unit, “a processing unit and a communication interface” which are ´wig´ and at least ‘partially covered by wigs so as to be visually hidden during use”.
Also according to BBC News, citing analyst Andrew Milroy, the consulting firm Frost & Sullivan, the BBC: “Wearable gadgets are definitely going to be one of the big areas of growth over the next two years” said Milroy.
