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Glanceable information, integration across sensors and hooks into web services will be key features, according to the company.

Caption: The new dash is designed to give hosts as many glanceable pieces of information as possible.

These are glanceable stats; open Microsoft Health for full workout information and graphs.

BeeLine is a glanceable navigation device that doesn't give you directions so much as it points you in the right direction.

Pebble Time, while streamlined and glanceable, doesn't easily allow for some other functionalities that get people excited about smartwatches.

Ambient devices represent a new niche of consumer electronics characterized by their ability to be perceived at-a-glance (also called "glanceable").

The stock Recent Apps interface uses square thumbnails with more spacing, which makes the screen much more glanceable when you're in a hurry.

And as Google continues to index the information within those apps, it's easy to envision a scenario in which it's providing information that's more than just glanceable.

As with earlier smartwatches like Pebble, the Galaxy Gear aims to be a glanceable notification machine, informing you of incoming calls, texts, messages and alerts.

We wanted to find a way to deliver a snapshot of our reviews in a really simple, glanceable manner, and also make those snapshots available to sort and search through.

He added, "How cool would it be to not have all those extra devices, to have everything you need right there as glanceable information, and it looks pretty cool, too?"

Dubbed "Roll Effect," one technique makes use of the curve as a way to provide glanceable information by simply rolling one edge down when the Round is lying on its back.

When Apple launched its latest operating system, Tiger, earlier this year, it introduced a feature called Dashboard - a collection of glanceable programs, each of which performs one simple function, like displaying the weather.

 "With Hulu on board, the Dash platform has the ability to deliver a huge variety of online entertainment instantly to consumers' homes on top of glanceable, real-time tidbits of information."

David Rose, the Cambridge designer, suspects that computers need to break away from the screen, delivering information through glanceable sources in the world around us, the way wall clocks tell us the time in an instant.

They placed their applications on different screens - the e-mail far off on the right side, a Web browser on the left and their main work project right in the middle - so that each application was "glanceable."

This is a concept that may not become 'normal' for many years but the ability for us to deliver glanceable content is going to be an important part of keeping radio relevant as broadcasting and IP march forward.

LG has added Always-On display technology, which brings glanceable notifications and a lightweight clock and calendar to the device, even when it's asleep.

Both of these are what Matt Jones would call glanceable.