Wearables
Products
Felix Gray Takes Computer Eyewear Outdoors
For Felix Gray, the future's so bright it had to add shades.
Products
Garmin Brings Pulse Ox To Fenix Smart Watch
With one model boasting the company’s largest display yet
Accessories
Gatorade’s Sweat-Reading Wearable Almost Ready For Retail
Bandage-like wearable tells athletes if they need to hydrate
Accessories
Fitbit Turns To Kids With Ace Band As Wearables Continue To Find Footing
Growth is slowing, but consumers remain interested
Health
NFL In Bed With Sleep Number
Smart bed maker named the Official Sleep and Wellness Partner of the NFL
CES
Time Waits For No One … Except Roader’s Time Machine Camera
Wearable video cam lets users ‘record the past’
news
New Apple Watch 3 Boasts Stand-Alone Cellular Service
Apple announced its new Watch iteration today. The Apple Watch Series 3 is a stand-alone cellular device that packs a ton of new features,...
news
Fitbit Ushers In Ionic Smart Watch With Its Own OS & App Store
Fitbit showed it was ready for a market-share fight with the debut of what it’s calling its first smart watch, the Fitbit Ionic. Although...
news
Fitbit Slips To No. 2 In Wearables
China’s Xiaomi became the world’s largest wearables vendor for the first time ever in the second quarter, according to research by Strategy Analytics. Xiaomi...
news
Wearables Should Remain On Retailers’ Radar
The wearables category, while not setting the consumer technology industry on fire as was predicted by many, is growing at a healthier pace than...
news
ZTE Debuts Its First Connected Smartwatch For U.S., The ZTE Quartz, Through T-Mobile
ZTE USA has teamed with T-Mobile to enter the connected wearables category in the U.S. with its ZTE Quartz smartwatch. ZTE, the fourth largest...
Fitness
Revolar’s Instinct Is A Silent Assault Alarm
Revolar has introduced a second wearable device designed to prevent assaults. The square, quarter-sized Instinct, which features Bluetooth and can double as a step-counter,...
news
Samsung Offers 4G LTE Gear S3 Smart Watch
Samsung has added 4G LTE availability to its Gear S3 smart watch to further untether the device from users’ phones. The LTE version of...
news
Tag Heuer Debuts Connected Modular 45 Luxury Smart Watch
The Intel/Tag Heuer partnership has produced its latest offspring: a $1,600 luxury Android smart watch known as the Tag Heuer Connected Modular 45. Key...
news
Apple Watch Returns Global Smart-Watch Shipments to 1% Growth In Q4 2016: Strategy Analytics
Global smart-watch shipments reversed their recent downward trend and grew 1 percent annually to hit a record 8.2 million units in the fourth quarter...
news
TWICE Picks Award Winner: Nuheara IQbuds
The IQbuds are engineered to allow consumers to augment (blend) their hearing according to their personal hearing preferences and enhance these preferences with the...
news
Fitness Trackers In The Lead As Wearables Market Grows 3.1% In Q3
While the smart-watch market continued to tumble, the overall wearables market grew 3.1 percent year over year in the third quarter according to International...
news
Smart-Watch Market In Transition As Shipping Volume In Q3 Plunges
The worldwide smart-watch market cratered under growing pains in the third quarter of 2016, resulting in a whopping 51.6 percent decline in year-over-year shipment...
news
Snapchat Changes To Snap Inc., Debuts Video-Recording Spectacles
These sunglasses are indeed much cooler looking than Google Glass. Snapchat made two big announcements over the weekend: It is changing its name to...
news
Samsung Unwraps Gear S3 Watch At IFA
Samsung today unveiled its third-generation Gear S3 watch at IFA, including the company’s first smart watch to include full LTE connectivity, which will enable...
news
Wearable Technology (Smart Watches): Samsung Gear S2
TWICE VIP Award 2016 Winner! With its sleek design, rotating bezel and notifications at-a-glance, the Gear S2 keeps a user dialed in to every...
news
X-Doria Enters Apple Watch Accessories Market
X-Doria is now offering a metal Apple Watch replacement band. The Mesh Band is a stainless steel, adjustable band with a fully magnetic strap...
news
Target Grows Smart-Home Family With MonBaby
Target, which is aggressively plying the smart-home waters with a Connected Living shop, a connected Open House concept store and connected-healthcare displays, has made...
news
Will Wearables Replace Smartphones, House Keys?
Forty-three percent of smartphone owners surveyed in five countries believe smart watches will eventually replace smartphones, and 38 percent believe wearables will perform most...
news
Zepp Offers Golf App For Apple Watch
Zepp Labs announced today its Zepp 2 Golf swing analyzer and training tool is now compatible with the Apple Watch. Wearers receive streamlined access...
news
Big Guns In Wrist Wearables: Fitbit, Garmin, Best Buy, Target
Fitbit and Garmin lead the competition in the number of wrist-worn wearables appearing on the shelves of 11 major national retailers, and Best Buy...
news
Gwen Stefani Celebrates New Samsung Wearables
Samsung Electronics unveiled its latest sports band, in-ear Bluetooth headphones whose ear buds aren’t connected by a cable, and a marketing campaign to promote...
news
Pebble Rolls With 3 New Wearables
Pebble is focusing on fitness with the Kickstarter launch of two new smart watches and its first non-watch wearable. The two smart watches —...
Health
Lansinoh Unveils Smartpump: The First Bluetooth Breast Pump
Many millennial moms will likely file this one under Finally! Lansinoh Laboratories has introduced the first Bluetooth-enabled breast pump. The Smartpump, a double electric...
news
Huawei Rolls Out Ladies’ Smart Watches With Android Wear
Huawei’s first female-focused Android Wear watches, the $499 Elegant and $599 Jewel, became available today to expand the company’s wearables line. The company already...
news
Nokia Eyes Wearables Market With Deal To Acquire Withings
Nokia said it is staking a claim in the consumer wearables and connected-home markets with the acquisition of Withings, the French manufacturer of fitness...
news
Samsung, Six Flags Team For Virtual-Reality Rollercoasters
Riders on virtual-reality-equipped rollercoasters at nine Six Flags theme parks this year will fly with Superman or battle space aliens while wearing Samsung’sGear VR...
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Microsoft HoloLens VR Headset A Step Closer To Consumer Reality
Microsoftsaid it’s a step closer to bringing its untetheredHoloLensholographic VR headset to the consumer market with the March 30 shipment of theHoloLens Development Edition...
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Microsoft, NFL Look At Watching Football Through VR HoloLens
Football fans watching games through Microsoft’s HoloLens virtual-reality headset would get a room-wide view, watch a holographic replay from any angle on their coffee...
news
Samsung Gear S2 Classic Goes Gold & Platinum
Samsung is bringing out platinum and 18-karat Rose Gold versions of its Gear S2 Classic smartwatch at $449, joining the original Gear S2 Classic...
news
Fitbit Goes More Fashion-Forward
Fitbit has introduced its latest fitness tracker, the slightly more upscale Alta. With a nod toward the fashion-conscious, the Alta can be used with...
news
Apple Watch Tops In Market Share In ’15
Apple Watch captured a 52 percent share of global smart watch shipments in 2015 in a product segment that still lacks a strong use...
Fitness
Mettis Trainer, ‘Holy Grail of Golf Instruction,’ Makes CES 2016 Debut
A new innovation in wearable biofeedback technology, the Mettis Trainer from Bend Tech tracks pressure points on the sole during activity with a patent-pending...
Health
OAXIS Promotes Balanced Lifestyle Products At CES 2016
OAXIS is showcasing a variety of technologies at CES, including the Wellness Line and a trio of on-the-go solutions: InkCase, Bento Speaker and the...
Fitness
CES 2016: Polar Team Pro Enhances Elite Level Coaching
Polar is spotlighting Polar Team Pro at CES 2016, its most advanced team sports coaching solution to date. Polar Team Pro is designed for...