{"id":115291,"date":"2017-02-09T12:39:09","date_gmt":"2017-02-09T10:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=115291"},"modified":"2017-02-09T12:39:58","modified_gmt":"2017-02-09T10:39:58","slug":"gameband-lets-you-play-games-on-your-smartwatch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/115291-gameband-lets-you-play-games-on-your-smartwatch","title":{"rendered":"Gameband lets you play games on your smartwatch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FMTwo has launched a Kickstarter to fund its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gameband.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Gameband<\/strong><\/a> \u2013 a\u00a0\u201cdedicated gaming smartwatch\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The Gameband features a\u00a01.63-inch AMOLED display and is powered by\u00a0Qualcomm\u2019s 1.2GHz quad-core Snapdragon Wear 2100 chip.<\/p>\n<p>The battery is a\u00a0400mAh unit, while the watch also features\u00a0USB Type-C, Bluetooth 4.2, Wi-Fi, and microSD card support.<\/p>\n<p>Gameband runs on a version of\u00a0Android Marshmallow and will work with Android and iOS devices.<\/p>\n<p>There are 20 mini-games included with Gameband \u2013 such as Pong and Asteroids. There are also Terraria and Atari versions of the watch, which feature branded straps and unique digital faces.<\/p>\n<p>Early-bird backers can get a Gameband for $99 (\u201clate\u201d backers can pick up a unit for\u00a0$149), which is expected to launch in\u00a0September.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DCHJmV_BnkM\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>This article first appeared on <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gaming\/197955-play-games-on-your-smartwatch-with-gameband.html\" target=\"_blank\">MyBroadband <\/a><\/strong>and is republished with permission.<\/em><\/p>\n<h4><strong>Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/197795-logitech-unveils-brio-4k-hdr-webcam.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Logitech unveils Brio 4K HDR webcam<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FMTwo has launched a Kickstarter to fund its Gameband \u2013 a \u201cdedicated gaming smartwatch\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":226,"featured_media":115293,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8585],"tags":[23997,14935],"class_list":["post-115291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gadgets","tag-gameband","tag-smartwatch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115291\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}