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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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 —...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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CES 2016 Q&A: Valencell President LeBoeuf Talks Wearables
Dr. Steven LeBoeuf is co-founder and president of Valencell, a leading supplier of sensors to the CE market. We asked him to catch us...
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CES 2016: Withings Unveils Go Activity Tracker
Withings is expanding its line of activity trackers with Withings Go, billed as one of the most affordable, versatile and fully featured activity trackers...
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CES 2016: Fitbit Unveils Blaze Fitness Smart Watch
Fitbit unveiled at CES what it called “its smartest, most stylish, most motivating fitness tracker yet,” the Fitbit Blaze Smart Fitness Watch. Primarily a...
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New Wi-Fi HaLow Spec Announced
In an attempt to make connected wearables and battery-operated IoT consumer and commercial devices more power-efficient with longer range, the Wi-Fi Alliance has announced...
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Samsung Gear VR Headset Comes To T-Mobile
1st carrier to carry 2nd-gen model which uses smartphone as its display T-Mobile became the first carrier to offer the Samsung Gear VR virtual-reality...
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Apple Watch, Lumo Seen Leading Holiday Sales
The Apple Watch and Lumo’s Lift Posture and Activity Tracker will take the holiday-sales lead in the smart watch and fitness-tracker categories, respectively, based...
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Withings Adds ‘Tasteful’ Activite Steel
Withings expanded its selection of activity-tracking watches to three with the launch of the $169 Activité Steel, which joins the $149 Activité Pop and...
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LG Brings Watch Urbane Luxe To Reeds Jewelers
LG is expanding distribution into jewelry stores, but only with a limited-edition LG Watch Urbane Luxe smart watch at $1,195. The luxurious watch is...
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AT&T’s Samsung Gear S2 & LG Watch Urbane 2nd Edition Won’t Need A Phone Nearby
AT&T will be the first U.S. carrier to offer BlackBerry’s first Android smartphone and first carrier to offer cellular-equipped smart watches that share the...
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Verizon Expands Kids Selection With Wearables
Verizon expanded its selection of kids’ electronics in time for Christmas with new GPS-tracking wrist-worn cellphones. One is the $79 GizmoPal2, the successor to...
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Fossil, Misfit Wearables Make Smartphone Connections
New wearable fitness trackers and smart watches will hit retail shelves in time for the holidays, with Fossil launching its first wearables line and...
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Elvie, The Wearable For Women
There really are wearables for everywhere. London-based Chiaro has launched Elvie, a wireless tracker for the pelvic floor. The device measures and tracks Kegel...
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GoPro Will Pay You Up To $5,000 For A Video
GoPro is expanding its licensing program for user-generated content by establishing an awards program that will pay out up to $5 million annually for...
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Timex Melds Activity Tracking, Analog Styling With Metropolitan+
Timex unveiled its first wrist-worn activity tracker that looks like a traditional men’s analog watch. The company already offers fitness watches and bands and...
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New Cogito Smart Watches Boast OLED Displays
Connectedevice came to the Hong Kong Watch & Clock Fair to unveil a new collection of Cogito-brand smart watches with OLED displays. Included is...