Citizen unveiled its NASA-inspired Wear OS smartwatch at CES 2023.
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Citizen launched its first Wear OS watch a few years ago, but it didn’t quite match all of the great smartwatches from Fossil and other brands. It ended up being just a mediocre watch at a premium price. Citizen is now returning to the game with a follow-up featuring a proprietary arousal tracker inspired by what NASA uses to assess astronaut fatigue levels.
At CES 2023, Citizen unveiled its second generation CZ smartwatch with proprietary technology that determines alertness and fatigue. With the help of IBM’s Watson, the companion’s CZ Smart YouQ app (not backwards compatible) learns from the wearer’s usage over the course of her week to shape sleep and activity patterns. .
The watch is supposed to use this data to give you an accurate alert score when you take Citizen’s custom alert monitor test. The test is based on NASA’s Psychomotor Vigilance Task Test (PVT+), and the company learned to reach the claimed accuracy from space agency research materials. Citizen has even gamified the test to make it a little more fun for smartwatch users.
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But the CZ Smart is also a regular smartwatch, so you can expect everything you’d expect from a regular smartwatch. That rocks the Snapdragon Wear 4100+ for processing needs paired with 1GB of RAM and 8GB of storage.Citizen claims the battery life will last him a day and can be recharged in 40 minutes. increase.
This Citizen smartwatch comes in two versions, Casual (41mm) and Sport (44mm), both of which feature the same 1.3-inch OLED screen on the front. Within these two personas, you’ll get plenty of design and strap combinations to find the combination that truly matches your style.Citizen CZ SmartHis watch launches in the US this March. Yes, but I don’t know the price. We’re also looking at a premium price for this updated model should the company choose to stick with its previous pricing strategy.