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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...
Fitness
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...
Fitness
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’...
Fitness
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...
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AARP Study Sees Promise In Wearables For Senior Health
Washington — A study by senior advocacy group AARP reveals that the over-50 demographic found wearable activity and sleep trackers effective in encouraging better...
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Alcatel OneTouch Adds Smart Watch
Irvine, Calif. – Cellphone maker Alcatel OneTouch expanded its selection of smart watches with the launch of a white sports version of the Alcatel...
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GoPro, Polaroid Target Different Action-Cam Segments
New York – New action cameras from GoPro and Polaroid target different segments of the market, with GoPro seeking a little action from active...
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Disney Shuffles Structure In Advance Of Playmation Wearables Debut
BURBANK, CALIF. — The Walt Disney Company has merged its consumer products and Disney Interactive divisions, which have been increasingly pursuing similar digital objectives,...
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Eyeglass World 1st Chain To Offer Prescription Smart Glass Lenses
SAN DIEGO − Eyeglass World has become the first national chain to launch a retail collection of prescription lenses for smart-glass technologies in the...
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Intel Acquires Smart-Glass Supplier Recon
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA — Intel has acquired Recon Instruments, the Vancouver-based maker of smart glasses for outdoor and fitness enthusiasts, for a reported $175...
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Eyeglass World Offers Prescription Smart Glass Lenses
By John Laposky San Diego − Eyeglass World has become the first national chain to launch a retail collection of prescription lenses for smart...
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Zzzzzzz: Braci Wearables App Aims To Stop Snoring
New York — Braci, a start-up marketing a platform that detects sounds and delivers notifications to Android Wear devices, has launched its first app,...
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Apple Clearing Up Watch Backlog
Cupertino, Calif. – Apple has begun tackling its backlog of Apple Watch orders, announcing that consumer orders placed through May for all models but...
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Lycos Enters Wearables
Boston — Lycos today announced its entry into the wearables category with Lycos Life, a line of products the company called “a single point...
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IHS: Apple Watch To Drive Smart Watch Success
London – Global smart watch shipments will grow 2,700 percent from a mere 3.6 million shipments in 2014 to 101 million in 2020, driven...
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Apple Details Watch Accessory Guidelines
Cupertino, Calif. — The Apple Watch is ready for its accessories. Apple has released the official guidelines for Apple Watch bands on its website....
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Sensoria Debuts Smart Socks For Runners
Las Vegas — The Internet of Things has reached the sock drawer. Sensoria Fitness socks, shipping now, are embedded with proprietary machine-washable textile sensors...
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LG Watch Urbane Rolls Out At $349
Englewood Cliffs, N.J. – The LG Watch Urbane, the first smart watch incorporating Google’s latest Android Wear OS version, is rolling out in the...
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Apple Watch Plays Hard-To-Get
Cupertino, Calif. – Apple was set today to begin shipping the first Apple smart watches that consumers began preordering on April 10, but the...
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Android Wear Updates Include Wi-Fi Data Access
Mountain View, Calif. – Google is upgrading its Android Wear smart watch OS, adding multiple convenience functions plus Wi-Fi access to data and messages....
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NPD: Smart Watches To Take Activity Tracker Share
Port Washington, N.Y. – Activity-tracker penetration in the U.S. will peak by the end of 2016 as smart watch penetration grows, The NPD Group...
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Kenneth Cole Adds Name To Smart Watch List
New York –Fashion designer Kenneth Cole entered the smart watch market with 12 models for men and women at prices from $135 to $165....
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Vector Unveils Smart Watch With 30-Day Battery Life
Basel, Switzerland — Vector formally introduced its first smart watch, the Vector Watch, which is OS-agnostic and boasts a battery life of 30 days....
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Casio Adds Solar-Powered Pro Tek Activity Watch
Messe Basel, Switzerland — Casio America added to its Pro Tek line of activity watches with the debut of the PRW-3500. This is the...
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AmbyGear Watch Lets Parents Track Kids
SUNNYVALE, CALIF. – Start-up Ambit Networks plans summertime shipments of its first product, a kid’s smart watch that helps parents keep tabs on their...
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Burg Targets Cellphone Watch To Kids, Seniors
NYACK, N.Y. – Burg, the maker of cellphoneequipped smart watches, is targeting its latest wearable to kids and seniors. The $129 Burg 31, which...
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Smart Watch, Band Market A Tight Fit?
BARCELONA, SPAIN — The smart-watch and smartband markets grew more crowded at the Mobile World Congress, where many of the new wearables were launched...
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Apple Sets Watch Prices, Ship Dates
San Francisco – Apple’s first smart watch will be available April 24 in the U.S. at prices ranging from $349 to more than $10,000...
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Some Recent Smart Watches That Will Take On The Apple Watch
Barcelona — The smart watch market grew more crowded at the recent Mobile World Congress, where many of the new wearables were launched by...