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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...
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Sony’s 2nd-Gen SmartBand Embraces Apple iOS
Sony Mobile Communications is making its second-generation Smart Band activity tracker a little smarter and a little more durable. The SmartBand 2 silicone rubber...
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What Samsung Brings To Its New Gear S2 Smart Watches
S2 and S2 Classic add circular display, rotating bezel to control apps Samsung is dropping the curved rectangular display of its Gear S smart...
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Huawei Ships 1st Smart Watch
Huawei’s first smart watch, unveiled early this year, will be available in six models priced from $349 to $799 for a rose-gold-plated model with...
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IFA 2015 Sees Huawei’s 1st Smart Watch
Computing and communications are among the tech developments that will take center stage at this week’s IFA 2015, where Acer will launch its game-focused...
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Google Rolls Out Android Wear For iOS
Google today began to roll out Android Wear for iOS, which initially works with the LG Watch Urbane, but Android Wear smart watches will...
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Sony SmartBand 2 On The Run
Sony Mobile Communications is making its second-generation SmartBand activity tracker a little smarter and a little more durable. The SmartBand 2 silicone rubber wrist...
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Sports Tech Launches From Epson, Misfit, Livall, Bracketron, Blast Motion
Summer is still enforcing its cruelty in many parts of the county; TWICE is based in New York and, frankly, it’s beyond us why...
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Simple Matters’ Low-Cost Vibrating Ditto Pairs To Smartphones
Santa Monica, Calif. — Start-up Simple Matters has begun offering a clip-on wearable that vibrates to alert users to incoming cellphone calls. The Kickstarter-funded...
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Virtual Reality On The Cheap
Los Angeles – Startup NextCore launched its first virtual-reality headset though the Amazon and the Noon VR web stores at only $89. For its display, the Noon VR...
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Best Buy To Carry Apple Watch
Minneapolis – Best Buy will be the first national retailer, besides Apple itself, to carry the manufacturer’s line of smart watches. The No. 1...
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HP: Beware Smart-Watch Security Flaws
Palo Alto, Calif. — Smart watches have significant security flaws, HP found in testing 10 devices. All of them “contain significant vulnerabilities, including insufficient...
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Research: Apple Sold 4 Million Smart Watches In Q2
Boston – Apple wouldn’t disclose sales of its Apple Watch, but research company Strategy Analytics is happy to disclose its estimate that Apple shipped...
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Canalys: Apple Tops In Wearable Bands In Q2
Palo Alto, Calif. – Apple hasn’t been in the smart watch business for very long, but it already became the world’s top vendor of...
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HTC Demos Virtual-Reality Headset To Consumers
SAN DIEGO – HTC, the smartphone maker that is repositioning itself as a personal technology company, went to Comic-Con 2015 to demonstrate the developers’...
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Misfit Unveils Low-Price Fitness Tracker
BURLINGAME, CALIF. – Misfit is dropping the price of its Shine and Flash fitness-tracking wearables to $69.99 and $29.99, respectively, from $99.99 and $49.99...
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Parks: Demand Rising For Multifunction Smart Watches
DALLAS – Smart-watch demand is growing, consumers value the devices’ multifunction capabilities, and the smart-watch sweet spot is $100 to $250, a Parks Associates...
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AARP Study Sees Promise In Wearables For Seniors
WASHINGTON — A study by senior advocacy group AARP reveals that the over-50 demographic found wearable activity and sleep trackers effective in encouraging better...