April 1 news, according to foreign media reports, 2013 is very likely a year of smart watches. The media has more and more speculation on a variety of smart watches, and now most major manufacturers seem to have reached a consensus on smart watches: smart watches will open up a whole new era. In recent weeks, various rumors of technology giants Apple, Samsung and Google about smartwatches have filled the media. Current Analysis analyst Greengart believes that 2013 will be the Smartwatch Year, as the electronics components have become small enough and cheap enough to be suitable for the development of smartwatches. And now a large number of consumers already have a smart phone, just can use it to connect wearable devices. The idea of ​​smartwatches has existed for at least 10 years: Microsoft has had some ideas since 2003. Some prototypes for smartwatts have appeared, with Sony, Pebble, and the Italian company i'm all introducing such devices, though they are not really smartwatches. Although smartwatches can now simply connect to smartphones and provide users with new information wirelessly or with limited web access. But once a smartwatch appears, application developers are likely to develop new features based on it, such as using smartwatches to monitor the health of users. At the same time, giants such as Apple are also able to breed a new market. Moreover, Apple has shown us several times about its capabilities in this area. Although Apple has kept its usual silence on the issue. The guesses on the internet have not stopped, and the design of iWatch is likely to be a watch made with flexible screen technology. ABI Research predicts that smartwatches and other wearable computing devices will usher in an explosive year of growth in 2013 and become more widespread in the future. By 2018, this market will grow to 485 million shipments. Oliver Chen, an analyst at Citigroup, said the smartwatch market is a rough one that can be polished to $ 6 billion a year and has above-average product profitability. (Bing Han)