Google appears to be boosting both its wearable tech and its gaming status. According to The Wall Street Journal, the tech giant is working on developing both a video game console and a smartwatch that could run on Android.
Last year, Google unveiled a Web-connected media-playing console, dubbed the Nexus Q, but it never sold it to the public. The spherical device featured glowing LEDs that responded to music. The Q also streamed content directly from Google Play Music, Google Play TV & Movies, and YouTube, using an Android phone or tablet as the controller. However, a couple of months after Google announced the Q, the company said it was delaying its commercial release to "work on making it even better."
According to the Journal, the rumored gaming console would be a second version of the Nexus Q. Apparently, this device could be released as soon as this fall.
As far as the smartwatch, this isn't the first rumor that's been floated about Google working on wrist-tech. In March, a report by The Financial Times said that Google was working on a smartwatch that was being developed by the company's Android unit, rather than its X Lab (which created Google Glass). This is telling because it means that, unlike Google Glass, the company may be looking to get a consumer product out to users on a speedier timeline.
A lot of the major tech companies seem to be branching out from developing just smartphones and tablets to creating other types of hardware. Apple and Samsung are both reportedly working on smartwatches and Apple already has its streaming-media gadget -- the Apple TV.
