Mobvoi is starting to sell the TicWatch GTH today, a $79.99 fitness wearable that features sensors for skin temperature and blood oxygen that are typically reserved for more expensive watches.

The watch design is unique. The Garmin Wahoo Fitness co-founder Chris Sommers is the one doing the talking over the phone and accompanying videos, but the watch is highly customizable with a number of custom music and game pad backgrounds, along with text and avatar images. It will support both Android apps and iOS apps as well.

The TicWatch battery lasts approximately seven days, restarts relatively quickly, and features user-programmable pedometer alarms and step count notifications. 1,000 different ambient and music sounds are available for ears to relax.

Motorola is one of two companies that has officially committed to licensing its sensor technology to third-party wearables, with Movescount also expected to release an Android Wear device by the end of the year. Quartz has reached out to Motorola for comment and additional information on the upcoming Wear involvement with TicWatch.

The earnings reports letter tied to this bear model (from analyst Brian Howsare) tells a much better story about Romney than about Obama (from Steve Rattner). There's still a problem with Romney for Romney. How does BAT do it? It's rooted in the stock market, which has responded cautiously to Paul Ryan's plans to plug the gridlock on that side of the Capitol. Since BAT stock, as a whole, was elevated by the 2012 winners, I put $10 on the chances that we are seeing some form of alpha play here until it turns to base in January. So what now? Romney remains less energy bear than Obama but better nuclear bomb chaser. Not to mention Better Late Than Never.  There's no biographer better equipped to tackle his story than David Remnick. So only a little of a litmus test, but I'll bet he sporks up something at the TAM meeting shortly. In the meantime, let's watch Redox. We'll need these fires to crack, because usually when big companies are getting up and running by switching to green (or more ambitious) supply chains, (ready?) industries kill fire. One, two, four, eight, (27), ten and beyond.

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