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Steal This Idea: A Smartwatch App That Automatically Provides Passwords

Wouldn’t it be amazing if you could just walk up to your locker, glance at your wrist, and see the right combination appear on your smartwatch screen? Particularly if you multiply that by every lock and password you encounter over the course of a day? Today, 1Password—the popular password manager app—has taken the first step…

A Key-Sized Pebble Watch Charger You’ll Never Forget At Home

The Pebble smartwatch boasts vastly superior battery life to Apple’s upcoming wearable, but that doesn’t mean you still don’t have to regularly keep it charged. So following up on its key-sized smartphone chargers, Nomad is introducing the tiny NomadKey Pebble that includes a magnetic connector for attaching to and charging the smartwatch. It’s small enough…

These Are Pebble’s Secret Weapons In The Smartwatch War

Did you think the new Pebble Time’s color screen and new UI paradigm made for an exciting smartwatch? Well, you ain’t seen nothing yet. The company’s been hiding two major announcements that could make Pebble Time the smartwatch to beat this year. First, take a nice long look at the picture on top of this…

Pebble’s Fantastic Smartwatch Is Growing Up

It’s been almost three years since the original Pebble ( still one of the very best) closed up Kickstarter-shop with over $10 million, and now the little watch that could has a true successor. This is the Pebble Time. It’s thinner. It’s got a color screen. It’s got a microphone. And…it’s on Kickstarter. Like the…

Looks Like Pebble’s New Smartwatch Will Have a Color Screen

Last week, Pebble started teasing a new announcement with a countdown on its homepage. And now a leak from 9to5Mac—an image hosted on Pebble’s own servers—is giving us a pretty good idea of what it is: A new, thinner, wider smartwatch with a color screen. The image, shown above, comes after previous rumors from 9to5Mac…

The Fantastic Pebble Smartwatch Is Now Better Than Ever

A few days ago Pebble’s wonderful smartwatches got updated with the power of Android Wear notifications when the feature rolled out to all users. I’ve been using it for a few days now, and while it’s definitely not a perfect implementation, it does make one of the best smartwatches out there even better. The Pebble…

Are Smartwatches Already Dead?

Do people actually want smartwatches? I’m starting to wonder. The Pebble smartwatch—a phenomenal Kickstarter success story and the darling of tech critics everywhere—has only sold 1 million copies. Don’t get me wrong, that’s fantastic news for Pebble and for anyone with a Pebble on their wrist. One million units means Pebble can keep building watches…

Pebble Smartwatches Are Getting the Power of Android Wear 

Pebble’s smartwatches are some of the best wearables out there, and they’re about to get even better. The newest (beta) version of the Pebble app gives Pebbles all the power of Android Wear notifications. This is great news. https://gizmodo.com/the-best-smartwatch-for-every-wrist-1671271995 If you’re a Pebble user, this means that you’ll soon be able to act on notifications…

Pebble and PayPal Give You Another Stupid Way To Pay For Stuff

Tech companies are continuing with the long, hard struggle to rid the planet of credit cards. Today’s slightly awkward solution comes courtesy of PayPal and Pebble, who will now let you ditch your wallet, provided you own a Pebble smartwatch, have a PayPal account, and shop at stores that take PayPal. The system is a…

Nest Adds an Army of New Products to Its Smart Home Ecosystem

Fitness trackers. Cars. Washing machines. Lightbulbs. Cameras. Nest might only really make two products, but it’s spent the past year building up a sprawling ecosystem of devices and companies that can function in tandem with its products. Today it announced five more—as well as its acquisition of the connected home system Revolv. According to the…

The Pebble Smartwatch Now Doubles as a $100 Fitness Tracker

The days of dedicated fitness trackers may be numbered. The evidence is piling up: the Apple Watch will be your personal trainer, the new Basis Peak is adding smartwatch-like notifications… and now the Pebble smartwatch is becoming a fitness tracker too. https://gizmodo.com/the-apple-watch-wants-to-be-your-full-fledged-personal-1632563970 With a new firmware update to version 2.6, the Pebble will become capable…

Pebble owners, heads up! You can update to version 2.5, allowing your smartwatch to display emoji, play nice with iOS 8, and finally use its internal compass. If you’re using your Pebble alongside an iPhone, you can now dismiss notifications right from your watch. [Pebble Blog]

This $10.8 Million Crowdfunded Cooler Better Be Awesome

In the relatively brief but inexplicably deep-pocketed history of internet-enabled crowdfunding, people have proven their insatiable thirst for investing in stuff that may—or may not—ever make it to reality. Some of these proposals are very cool; some are very stupid. And some get a whole hell of a lot of money. “The Coolest” belongs to…

ESPN is bringing all the sports to your wrist with a new Pebble smartwatch app. Pair your Android or iPhone, pick your pro or college teams, and your Pebble will vibrate whenever the score changes in any of the games you’re tracking. No way that’ll get annoying during playoffs. Nope. [Variety via Techmeme]

Pebble Smartwatch Now Comes in Glowstick Colors

Today Pebble is releasing a limited run of its $150 smartwatch in three new colors: fresh green, hot pink, and fly blue. Pebble in more colors is Pebble with more fun. So the name FreshHotFly is a little bit dumb, but let’s ignore that part because the colors themselves are fantastic. They sort of remind…

The Pebble Steel—the best smartwatch out there right now—is getting (kind of) a price cut. You’ll now be able to get it (with the leather band only) for $230 instead of $250. You can pick up that model at Best Buy in person or online on Sunday June 15. Or you can wait for Google…

Pebble Steel Review: The Best Smartwatch, Now Also Beautiful

Smartwatches are awesome! Smartwatches look kinda dumb a lot of the time! They don’t have to though, and the Pebble Steel is proof. The improved look isn’t quite enough to make it the perfect smartwatch, but it goes a long, long way. What Is It? It’s pretty much the same Pebble smartwatch that took Kickstarter…

The Pebble smartwatch is getting an app store, set to go live on Monday at 1PM EST. The timing coincides nicely with the debut of Pebble Steel, which began shipping on January 28th. [Pebble via Slashgear]

The Pebble smartwatch just got a fancy new body. If you’re not a fan of rubber and plastic (you aren’t), Pebbles now come in a “Steel” flavor that’s made of metal and far better (read: less painful) to look at. The catch? it’s $100 more, and virtually identical on the inside.

You can now buy Pebble’s smartwatch from Amazon, for the princely sum of $150.