What did it do to the phone battery life ?
Microsoft boffins borrow smartmobe brains to give wearables 9x kick
Microsoft and Georgia University researchers have developed a system that can make wearable devices up to nine times faster with four times the battery life by offloading processing to traditional mobile devices. The platform, dubbed WearDrive, offloads processing power using WiFi and Bluetooth connections so that watches or …
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Wednesday 15th July 2015 15:28 GMT TS15
May well be missing something here, but isn't this essentially the same approach used by the Apple Watch running the current release of WatchOS & WatchKit ?
The watch serves as an interaction / display medium for apps running on an associated iPhone... Sound familiar?
https://developer.apple.com/library/prerelease/ios/documentation/General/Conceptual/WatchKitProgrammingGuide/DesigningaWatchKitApp.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40014969-CH3-SW1