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Woman’s Experimental Bionic Hand Passes Major Test With Flying Colors – Gizmodo

  1. Woman’s Experimental Bionic Hand Passes Major Test With Flying Colors Gizmodo
  2. Groundbreaking achievement as bionic hand merges with user’s nervous and skeletal systems, remaining functional after years of daily use EurekAlert
  3. It’s not ‘Star Wars’-level tech yet, but doctors get a step closer to a bionic hand with special surgery and AI CNN
  4. ‘Bionic woman’ is first to have robotic limb merged with bone — and controlled with her mind New York Post
  5. Groundbreaking bionic hand restores quality of life to amputee New Atlas
  6. View Full Coverage on Google News

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Exclusive Galaxy S23 colors seen in latest leak

Last updated: January 29th, 2023 at 18:18 UTC+01:00

Samsung’s official Galaxy S23 launch event is only a couple of days away but that doesn’t mean the leaks are going to stop anytime soon. Almost everything that’s there to know about this series has been leaked already.

Earlier leaks have revealed that the new lineup is going to be available in four primary colors across the globe. These colors include Botanic Green, Cotton Flower, Misty Lilac, and Phantom Black. There will also be a few exclusive Galaxy S23 colors that are going to be available only from Samsung.

Check out the Samsung exclusive Galaxy S23 colors

An earlier report revealed that the Galaxy S23 handsets would be offered in Gray, Light Blue, Light Green, and Red colors. These color options will only be available exclusively from Samsung. The company would sell the handsets in these colorways via Samsung.com, where you can already get a $100 credit for reserving a unit.

A new leak has emerged from Thailand and it apparently shows off the Galaxy S23, Galaxy S23+, and the Galaxy S23 Ultra in their Samsung exclusive colors. The images seem to suggest that two exclusive color options will be offered for each of the three models.

This isn’t the first time that Samsung is offering exclusive color options to get customers to buy phones directly from it. So it’s not surprising to see that the company is sticking with this approach for the Galaxy S23 series.

Samsung is going to unveil its newest Galaxy S flagship lineup at its Unpacked event on February 1 in San Francisco. Here’s how you can watch the Galaxy S23 launch event online.



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Samsung Galaxy S23, Galaxy S23+ will come in these colors

A few days ago, we exclusively revealed that the Galaxy S23 Ultra’s signature color would be green, while that of the Galaxy S23 and the Galaxy S23+ would be light gold. Now, the rest of the colors of the Galaxy S23 and the Galaxy S23+ have been revealed in a new leak.

Tipster Ahmed Qwaider claimed in a tweet that the Galaxy S23, Galaxy S23+, and Galaxy S23 Ultra won’t be available in White this year. The Galaxy S23 and the Galaxy S23+ will reportedly be sold in Cream, Green, Lavender, and Phantom Black. Of course, Samsung could still sell the devices in additional color variants exclusively through Samsung.com as it did with the Galaxy S22.

Galaxy S23 Ultra to feature a flatter screen

All three phones will have separate camera rings for their rear camera sensors, similar to the Galaxy S22 Ultra. While the Galaxy S23 Ultra will have a boxy shape with sharper corners, the Galaxy S23 and the Galaxy S23+ will feature curved corners. All devices will feature flat displays, an IP68 rating for dust and water resistance, and Gorilla Glass Victus 2 protection. The Galaxy S23 Ultra will have a built-in S Pen, similar to its predecessor.

The Galaxy S23 lineup features the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 processor for improved performance. The tipster claims that the Galaxy S23 will have a 1.6x better cooling system than the Galaxy S22 for improved performance under sustained loads. The Galaxy S23+ and the Galaxy S23 Ultra will reportedly have 2.8x and 2.3x better cooling systems, respectively, than their predecessors. It is still unclear if they will feature Wi-Fi 7, but they are rumored to bring satellite connectivity for emergency communication.

Galaxy S23 series will come equipped with Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 processor

The Galaxy S23 and the Galaxy S23+ have 8GB LPDDR5X RAM and 256GB UFS 4.0 storage. The Galaxy S23 Ultra will feature 12GB LPDDR5X RAM and 256GB/512GB/1TB UFS 4.0 storage. The Galaxy S23 is powered by a 3,900mAh battery (25W charging), while the Galaxy S23+ comes packed with a 4,700mAh battery (45W charging). The Galaxy S23 Ultra has a 5,000mAh battery and 45W fast charging.

Samsung has reportedly upgraded the primary camera on the Galaxy S23 Ultra compared to its predecessor. It is rumored to feature a 200MP primary camera with OIS, a 12MP ultrawide camera with autofocus, a 10MP telephoto camera with 3x optical zoom and OIS, and a 10MP telephoto camera with 10x optical zoom and OIS.



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Biden signs marriage equality act to tune of Cyndi Lauper’s ‘True Colors’

WASHINGTON, Dec 13 (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden signed the Respect for Marriage Act into law on Tuesday at a jubilant celebration that featured U.S. singer Cyndi Lauper performing “True Colors” in front of thousands of supporters on the White House lawn.

The new law provides federal recognition to same-sex marriages, a measure born out of concern that the Supreme Court could reverse its legal support of such relationships.

Cheers erupted from the crowd as Biden signed the bill.

“Marriage is a simple proposition. Who do you love? And will you be loyal to that person you love? It’s not more complicated than that. The law recognizes that everyone should have the right to answer those questions for themselves,” Biden said. “Today’s a good day.”

The event featured performances by pop icons Lauper and British singer Sam Smith.

“Well, this time, love wins,” Lauper said before starting to sing.

Made famous by her 1983 song “Girls Just Want to Have Fun,” Lauper, 69, said the act offered peace of mind to families like hers and Americans nationwide.

“We can rest easy tonight because our families are validated and because now we’re allowed to love who we love, which sounds odd to say, but Americans can now love who we love,” Lauper, an activist on LGBT issues who has been married to actor David Thornton since 1991, told reporters at a briefing prior to the performance.

Addressing the crowd before the signing, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said the bill promoted equality.

“Everyone deserves to bask in the magical blessing of building a union with the person you love,” she said.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, whose daughter and her wife are expecting a child, called it “a day of jubilation.”

Reporting by Steve Holland, Andrea Shalal, Katharine Jackson; Editing by Howard Goller and Josie Kao

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Snot Comes in Many Colors, And It Can Tell You About Your Health : ScienceAlert

Very few people talk about these things, but let’s break that taboo.

The mucus in your nose serves many functions. Its color can tell you and your doctor a lot about what’s going on in your body – especially when it’s been an abnormal shade for a long time.

You should know that snot color is not enough to diagnose anything outright.

Still, it offers a unique glimpse into your body’s strange ways of telling you that something’s up.

Clear snot means all is well

Clear mucus is totally normal. The body naturally produces a lot of mucus

Snot is a mixture of protective proteins and salts, with water. It keeps your nasal passages lubricated and germ-free by acting as a moisturizing barrier against dehydration and foreign objects, including bacteria and viruses.

Anything you breathe can get stuck on mucus like flypaper. Little hairs in the nose push mucus through the throat down to the stomach, where all the nasty bugs can get melted by stomach acid.

But it’s not just found in the nose. This gel covers every moist surface of your body, including the nose, but also the lungs, sinuses, mouth, stomach, intestines, and even the eyes.

Having a little clear mucus in the nose is nothing to be worried about. But if the amount drastically increases, it could mean that you’re suffering from allergies or the start of a cold or flu.

White snot means an infection could be going on

White mucus could mean a bunch of different things.

Most often, it means that your nasal passages are irritated and swollen, restricting mucus flow and causing it to dry out.

This could also be due to a nasal infection, allergies, or dehydration.

As immune cells fight off whatever it is that is irritating the nose, they release molecules that give the mucus that cloudy texture.

Your nose may become very runny at this stage. This is when you would likely be most contagious.

Though it is a common myth, research suggests milk does not make snot cloudier.

Yellow snot means you are probably fighting an infection

When you have an infection, your immune system’s white blood cells rush to the site to fight and destroy the microbial invader, whether it’s a bacteria or a virus.

After they’ve done their job and die, the white cells are flushed out of your body with your mucus, and in the process, can dye it yellow.

Yellow mucus doesn’t mean that you need antibiotics – the body faces infections all the time and is very good at fighting them off.

An infection could also be caused by a virus, in which case the antibiotics would be useless.

At this point, you may want to wait it out and see if things improve over the coming week or so.

Green snot also means you are likely fighting off an infection

Your mucus can also turn green from a large build-up of dead white blood cells.

If your mucus has been green for a few weeks or longer, you should see your doctor, especially if you have a fever or feel nauseated.

Pink or red snot means there’s blood in your nose

Red or pink mucus means there’s some blood in your nose.

This results from any number of things, including allergies, infection, and lots of blowing or rubbing. Physical trauma – like walking into a wall face-first – can also turn your snot red.

It may also simply mean that the air is very dry.

Brown snot could be dried blood. Or maybe you snorted some dirt.

When blood from your nasal lining dries, it can mix with the mucus and turn brown.

But brown mucus isn’t always because of blood. It could also be caused by dirt, dust, discoloration from cigarette smoke, snuff, or a spice.

If you’re coughing up brown mucus, though, you should see a doctor because this could be a sign of bronchitis.

Black mucus is usually due to smoking

Black mucus is most common among heavy smokers, especially if they have a lung disease.

It can also be due to inhaling dirt or dust; or after smoking cigarettes or marijuana.

But it can also signal a serious fungal infection, especially if you have a compromised immune system.

If your mucus is black for no obvious reason, you should see a doctor. This is especially true if you have a fever, chills, or have difficulty breathing.

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Elon Musk says Twitter’s verified service with colors to start next week

Nov 25 (Reuters) – Twitter Inc is planning to roll out its verified service next Friday with different colored checks for individuals, companies and governments, after a botched initial launch led to a surge in users impersonating celebrities and brands on the platform.

Chief Executive Elon Musk on Friday allotted colors for the categories – gold for companies, grey for governments and a blue check for individuals including celebrities.

“Painful, but necessary,” he said, adding that verified accounts will be manually authenticated before a check is activated.

The revamped $8-per-month service will allow individuals to have a smaller, secondary logo of their organizations if verified by them, he said in another tweet on Friday. “Longer explanation next week.”

The social media platform on Monday delayed its relaunch to make it foolproof as the service is expected to help Twitter grow revenue at a time when Musk is trying to retain advertisers after buying the company last month for $44 billion.

The subscription service, which was termed by Musk as a “great leveler”, was paused on Nov. 11 as fake accounts mushroomed, forcing the world’s richest man to bring back the “official” badge to some users.

For instance, one user pretending to be drugmaker Eli Lilly and Co had tweeted that insulin would be free, setting off a drop in the company’s shares and forcing it to issue an apology.

The turmoil led several companies including General Motors (GM.N) and United Airlines (UAL.O) to pause or pull back ads on the platform. User growth on Twitter, however, is at an all-time high, according to Musk.

Reporting by Akanksha Khushi and Aditya Soni in Bengaluru; Editing by Saumyadeb Chakrabarty and Arun koyyur

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Designers Furious Pantone Charging $15 for Colors in Adobe

Pantone is making designers work with black only if they don’t cough up $15 a month.
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Hell hath no fury like an Adobe designer who can’t see the colors they thought they had already paid for.

Designers who use Adobe’s Creative Suite tools, including Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign, are furious over a licensing change that forces them to pay Pantone an extra $15 a month (or $90 a year) to work with its signature colors in Adobe’s apps. In recent weeks, Adobe has removed support for Pantone-owned colors, which are the preferred industry standard, from its apps, leaving countless designers who used Pantone colors with files full of the color black instead and the following message:

“This file has Pantone colors that have been removed and replaced with black due to changes in Pantone’s licensing with Adobe. To resolve, click ‘Learn more,’” the message stated, according to a screenshot shared on Twitter and confirmed as authentic by Adobe, which laid all the blame at Pantone’s feet.

“Pantone actually required the removal, as they want to charge customers directly,” Adobe chief product officer Scott Belsky tweeted in response.

As if that weren’t enough, users who grudgingly accepted to pay Pantone didn’t even get a guaranteed fix. Designers were directed to download the Pantone Connect plugin for Adobe—which is deceptively listed as “free” in the Adobe Exchange store with information about a “premium” subscription listed in the plugin’s description—but some found that the plugin didn’t show up in their Adobe apps or didn’t work.

Others who were able to access the plugin complained about a clunky user interface, with some even calling it “unusable.” According to Pantone Connect’s page on Adobe Exchange, the last time the plugin was updated was in September of 2019, which might explain the glitches and bad UI.

Users took to the plugin’s page to voice their frustrations. Many pointed out that this was an act of greed by Pantone and Adobe, which wanted to squeeze even more out of users who had already paid for apps or bought official Pantone color books.

“Disappointed is an understatement – we buy your books, your ink and now the digital library that we rely on! Well played money guzzlers, someone should definitely be fired!” one user wrote on Oct. 22. “This only benefits YOU Adobe and Pantone! How far will you go? Some designers cannot afford Adobe app subscription as it is. Many are migrating away from what you built, when will it stop??”

Another user fumed and said that they didn’t understand why they suddenly had to pay for features that used to be free.

“Very glitchy, and getting sick of paying extra for features that used to be included in the programs or for online free. Design programs are already expensive as it is, now we have to pay another subscription? Do better to serve your clients!” the user wrote on Oct. 19.

Users also decided to bombard the plugin with one-star reviews. As of publication, 311 of the 386 ratings on Pantone Connect gave it one star, giving the plugin an average score of 1.5 stars.

Notably, the fury might have been contained if Adobe and Pantone had done a better job of communicating the change. Adobe first announced that it was removing Pantone’s color libraries from its apps in December 2021 and stated that the colors would be gone by March 2022. That didn’t happen. Then it said Pantone’s colors would be phased out by August 2022, which, again, didn’t happen.

It’s not surprising that customers stopped believing that Adobe and Pantone would actually go through with their plan and inconvenience a whole lot of people.

Ashley Still, senior vice president of digital media marketing, strategy, and global partnerships at Adobe, told Gizmodo in an email on Wednesday that the company had shared in June that “Pantone decided to change its business model.”

“To access the complete set of Pantone Color Books, Pantone now requires customers to purchase a premium license through Pantone Connect and install a plug-in using Adobe Exchange,” Still explained. “We are currently looking at ways to lessen the impact on our customers. In the meantime, customers also have access to up to 14 extensive color books through Creative Cloud subscriptions.”

Pantone, meanwhile, blamed the controversy on Adobe in an emailed statement to Gizmodo, all the while referring to it as a “trusted partner.” Pantone reiterated that it had agreed to include a curated set of Pantone color libraries in Adobe Creative Cloud, just not all its colors.

“While we do not determine the pricing, features, or user experience of our partners’ solutions, we do collaborate closely with our partners to create the best possible customer experience. Adobe Creative Cloud customers can leverage Pantone Connect to gain access to the full color library system,” the company said. “In keeping with our mission and values, Pantone strives to be a helpful resource for Adobe Creative Cloud users. Pantone continues to work with Adobe as our trusted partner to further improve the add-in extension experience within Creative Cloud.”

Who’s fault is it in the end? It’s hard to say. However, there’s no doubt we can all agree on what they’re fighting over: money.



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You’re Gonna Have To Pay To Use Fancy Colors In Photoshop Now

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It’s very likely you don’t give a great deal of thought to where the digital colors you use originally came from. Nor, probably, have you wondered who might “own” a particular color, when you picked it when creating something in Photoshop. But a lot of people are about to give this a huge amount of their attention, as their collection of PSD files gets filled with unwanted black, due to a licensing change between Adobe and Pantone.

As of now, widely used Adobe apps like Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign will no longer support Pantone-owned colors for free, and those wishing for those colors to appear in their saved files will need to pay for a separate license. And this is real life.

Pantone has been around since the 1950s, the New Jersey company originally refining printing inks, then later inventing the Pantone Color Matching System, used worldwide by designers to ensure a creation’s color will be exactly as desired, no matter where or how it’s manufactured. So, of course in becoming the industry-standard for color-matching, the company naturally asserts ownership of all its 2,161 hues, defending its intellectual property and preventing its unlicensed use. This extends as far as preventing others from creating “Pantone-compatible” color systems. Or, to put it another way, they claim to own colors.

Last year’s announcement that Adobe would be removing the Pantone “color books” from its software brought consternation in the design world. One industry standard being removed from another was obviously going to create issues, but at the time Adobe said it would be “working on an alternative solution,” while rumors spread that the companies had had a falling out.

Since then, the official reasons given haven’t made a great deal of sense. According to Pantone, the two companies started working together in the 1990s, but “since 2010, the Pantone color libraries within Adobe’s apps have not been updated.” This, apparently, means they’re “significantly out of date and missing hundreds of new Pantone Colors.” (Yes, the company seriously capitalizes “Color”.) This means that, “Pantone and Adobe have together decided to remove the outdated libraries and jointly focus on an improved in-app experience that better serves our users.”

The removal of Pantone’s colors from Adobe’s software was meant to happen March 31 this year, but that date came and went. It was then due for August 16, then August 31. However, this month, people are noticing the effects, reporting issues with creations using Pantone’s spot colors. And the solution? It’s an Adobe plug-in to “minimize workflow disruption and to provide the updated libraries to the Adobe Creative Cloud users.” Which, of course, costs $15 a month. It’s Netflix, but for coloring in!

However, Pantone still states in its out-of-date FAQ that, “This update will have minimal impact on a designer’s workflow. Existing Creative Cloud files and documents containing Pantone Color references will keep those color identities and information.” Yet today, people are reporting that their Photoshop is informing them, “This file has Pantone colors that have been removed and replaced with black due to changes in Pantone’s licensing with Adobe.”

Others have reported that even attaching a Pantone license within Photoshop isn’t fixing the issue, colors still replaced by black, and workarounds sound like a pain.

We’ve reached out to both Pantone and Adobe, and will update should either get back to us.

We, as a species, are in a very interesting time when it comes to so-called “Intellectual Property.” As rules applying to physical objects were poorly imposed on digital items, usually controlled by those with the most money to spend and lose, we’ve seen this sort of nonsense spread from music to movies to digital art, and now the very colors they’re made from themselves. And it always seems to end in our having to pay even more money.

It’s also just becoming more common to have to pay for aspects of services that used to be free. BMW charges some people for heated seats.

There are workarounds to this specific issue, however. Not least freeing yourself from the misery of such closed software, where ridiculous situations are able to breed like rabbits. There’s Free Software like Gimp, and free, open color schemes like Open Color. Of course, there are always introduced difficulties when stepping away from industry standards, but then, if we all did it, those problems would go away pretty fast.

If you need or want to stick to Adobe projects, then there are solutions there too. Free ones. Check out the video below for one.

Graphic Design How To

Another tip suggested by Print Week is to back up your Pantone libraries, then re-importing them when your Adobe software updates to remove them, or if it’s too late, finding a friend who already did. There’s a good chance this’ll work, given Pantone’s colors are stored as .ACB files, just as the rest of Photoshop’s colors.

Or, you know, you could just copy the metadata values of the Pantone range.

 

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The Incredible Colors of Animals Mean Different Things, But We Just Found a Pattern : ScienceAlert

Dazzling as it often appears, fashion in the animal kingdom can be frightfully repetitive. There are only so many color templates that scream ‘look at me’ amid the greys and greens of foliage and muck.

So it should be no surprise that animals often use the same colors for very different purposes.

The brilliant crimson of a male northern cardinal (Cardinalis cardinalis) serves as a signal for potential mates to draw closer; in strawberry poison-dart frogs (Oophaga pumilio), that blast of red is a stern warning to keep away, or you’ll ingest a mouthful of powerful, deadly toxin.

Evolutionary biologist Zachary Emberts, currently of Oklahoma State University, and colleague John Wiens of the University of Arizona, wondered what makes the same colors evolve to serve such different purposes in different animals.

They conducted a study of 1,824 species of land vertebrates (aquatic animals can be a whole other kettle of fish), categorizing their coloration as either come-hither or get-lost, and they found the common thread connecting each group.

The come-hither animals, such as birds and lizards, are descended from ancestors that were diurnal, or active during the day. The get-lost animals, such as snakes and amphibians, are descended from nocturnal ancestors.

“Traits that we see today in species can be a result of their evolutionary history,” Emberts says. “We were looking for evolutionary patterns, so we did two separate analyses, one that used their current day-night activity and one that used their ancestral day-night activity.”

No correlation, they found, exists between day and night activity and the animals’ coloration today; instead, the link is purely ancestral. But it’s one that seems to be consistent across all terrestrial vertebrates, whose evolution goes back around 350 million years.

“It doesn’t matter how a species produces the colors,” Wiens says. “The way that a bird makes red is different from how a lizard makes red, but this general pattern of day-night activity still works.”

According to the researchers’ analysis, most of the ancestors of the animals they studied started out rather plain and drab, evolving their vivid hues over time, and most of them live in environments in which their vivid colors stand out. The most reasonable explanation is that more brightly colored animals were better able to survive, and pass their genetic material onto generations that continued the trend.

Colors analyzed included red, orange, yellow, purple, and blue, and the researchers found that, for all colors except blue, the colorations were pretty equally divided between sex signaling and warning. It’s currently unclear what the reason for that could be.

“It’s interesting to see that for some colors like red, orange, and yellow, they’re used with similar frequency as both a way to avoid predators and as a way for mate attraction,” says Emberts.

“On the flip side, blue coloration was more frequently associated with mating as opposed to predator avoidance.”

The diurnal animals’ coloration makes sense: a flashy animal, in the light of day, is going to be seen by other animals, including potential mates. That may make them bigger targets for predators, too, but it seems like being able to find a mate and reproduce is more important than not being eaten. The females of these species are often drab in comparison, and therefore better able to hide from predators and survive to rear offspring.

But nocturnal animals slither and snoop about in the dark. A male nocturnal snake doesn’t have much use for a bright color for sexual signaling if the females can’t see it.

“Warning colors have evolved even in species with no eyes,” Wiens says. “It’s questionable whether most snakes or amphibians can see colors, so their bright colors are generally used for signaling to predators rather than to members of the same species.”

Instead, the researchers suggest, the coloration may have evolved as a way to tell diurnal predators who may happen upon the sleeping animal to steer clear. But future research may reveal more details. The team hopes to delve deeper into the evolution of bright colors to see if their functions have changed over time.

In the meantime, though, the research shows that delving into the evolutionary history of animal traits may reveal patterns that are no longer current today.

The team’s research has been published in Evolution.

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More Google Pixel Watch band colors, styles emerge

On Monday, we detailed the Pixel Watch’s default case color and strap configurations, which builds on our previous report about the extensive band collection that’s in the works. Google is now ramping up Pixel Watch teasing, while the latest leak suggests what band colors and styles will be available at launch.

Made by Google today shared a 15-second teaser showing the Pixel 7 and 7 Pro, Watch, and Buds Pro, or the “Google Pixel Collection,” which is accompanied by “A world of help, built around you” tagline. Notable here is a brief shot at another analog watch face design that uses various shapes as hour markers. Google has been using an analog face without any markings in recent advertising (to presumably mask the bezel thickness).

  • 1 and 7: Pill
  • 2 and 8: Circle
  • 3 and 9: Rounded square 
  • 4 and 10: Triangle
  • 5 and 11: Pentagon
  • 6: Google ‘G’
  • 12: Circle

It’s a bit chaotic, with one complication slot at 6 o’clock for Google Assistant and a rather thick hour hand.

Meanwhile, our $349 pricing report noted Chalk (white/beige), Charcoal (gray), Hazel Lemongrass (yellow/green), and Obsidian (black) colors for the in-box strap, which is basically Fitbit’s Infinity Bands. SnoopyTech on Twitter noted that it will also be available in Coral, which is Google’s orange/salmon.

Additionally, the fabric “Women” bands we previously noted will be available in Coral, Ivy, and Lemongrass. Our June look into the bands also discussed how Google is working on two types of leather bands. Ivy and Obsidian colorways were mentioned yesterday, while there will be small, medium, and large sizes, in general.

We previously said that not all of the strap designs might be available immediately, and this leak provides an idea of what might be offered near launch. 

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