This past week’s Smart World Series features cool new wearable tech for health, homes and the city, and new funding and dev kits for the Internet of Things.

For those who missed last week’s Smart World Series, here’s a chance to catch up on the exciting developments in the connected world.  Every day, SiliconANGLE rounds up the top news trends regarding smart homes and cars, smart data centers and IT, smart infrastructure and all things related to the Internet of Things.

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Samsung’s vibrating necklace + connected devices

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. released a line of wearable accessory devices for its Galaxy smartphones, including the Gear Circle. The Gear Circle is a vibrating headset that allows users to receive calls, listen to music, accept voice commands when paired with a smartphone via Bluetooth. When not in use, the headset can rest on a person’s neck without worry of losing it, thanks to the Circle’s magnetic lock. Even when not in use, users can immediately know if they’re getting a call via notification-based vibrations.

Find out more about Gear Circle and which startup raised $1.65M in seed funding in our Smart Living roundup.

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Smart city, parking initiatives gain monetary support

Siemens AG has launched the Mobility IDEA (Improving Design and Engineering for All) Contest aimed at finding innovative ideas that can help solve current, pressing traffic issues. Interested parties can submit their ideas that addresses specific challenges from different scenarios in the traffic industry such as Disaster Response and Resilience, Green Mobility, Downtown Growth, and Parking Nightmare.

For more information regarding Siemen’s  Internet of Things contest, check out our Smart City roundup.

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Rapist-detecting nail polish keeps partygoers safe

Wearable technology has greatly advanced with signature labels such as Ralph Lauren Corp. collaborating with OMsignal Inc. for its Polo Tech Smart Shirt, but not all ‘smart’ technologies need to connect to the Internet. Undercover Colors is one innovation that doesn’t connect to the Internet but has the potential to save lives.

Learn more about these wearable innovations in the Smart Health roundup.

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IoT developers get support, new tools from tech heavyweights

For the Internet of Things to succeed, it needs consumers to purchase and use connected devices and services, as well as developers to create new hardware and software.  To help developers, Silicon Laboratories, Inc. introduced two new economical and easy-to-use development kits aimed at accelerating the design of environmental and biometric sensing applications for a wide range of IoT products.

Find out more about these dev kits in this week’s Smart DevOps roundup.

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Tune in next week for more interesting stories, discoveries and innovations in the world of smart and connected things.

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