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Tech Life discovers and explains the ways technology is changing our lives, wherever we are in the world.

Tech Life discovers and explains the ways technology is changing our lives, wherever we are in the world. We meet the people with bright ideas for rethinking the way we work, learn and play, and get hands-on with the products they dream up. We hold tech giants to account for their huge power to affect our lives, and ask who wins, and who loses, in the technology transformation. Tech Life is your guide to a future being made, and remade, at lightning speed in front of our eyes.

Tech Life: Watch and Learn

12/09/2014

Watch and Learn

BBC World Service - Tech Life, Watch and Learn

What impact will Apple's new smartwatch have on the wearable technology market?

What impact will Apple's new smartwatch have on the wearable technology market? Can a device make you sleep better? And we get our hands on with the most expensive game ever made.

The rumours have been swirling for a while, but finally tech giant Apple unveiled a smartwatch.  What impact will this have on the already bustling wearable technology market? Will it be a game changer and can Apple repeat the success of previous devices - or is this one piece of technology that consumers might feel they don't really need? Rory Cellan-Jones has the views of tech watchers who were at the launch event.

Can you sleep be improved by a sensor? Entrepreneur James Proud certainly thinks so.  He persuaded members of the public to pledge over $2 million to fund his product.  He tells us how it all started and what his plans for the future are.

It's the most expensive video game ever made with a budget of $500m.  Destiny launched this week and we'll be finding out whether all the investment was worth it and whether video games really are the new blockbusters.

Joining Rory Cellan-Jones in the tent will be Jane Wakefield and Dave Lee from the BBC's online technology desk with special guest Jemima Kiss, head of technology at The Guardian.

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