MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., March 18 (UPI) -- Google released Android Wear Tuesday, which is a modified version of its popular Android operating system, tailored to be used with wearables.
The OS will be based on Google Now voice-recognition technology. In a blog post Tuesday, Google announced LG, Asus, HTC, Motorola, and Samsung as hardware partners with chips developed by Broadcom, Imagination, Intel, Mediatek and Qualcomm. Among the non-techonolgy brands, Fossil will debut watches running Android Wear later this year.