Smartwatches

The Apple Watch No Longer Totally Sucks

The original Apple Watch wasn’t amazing, but it did what it set out to do. You could answer phone calls on your watch, see notifications from your phone, and even track your heart rate. And with the most recent software upgrade, the watch has speed and interface improvements that refine it further. You can now…

Accessories & Wearables Alex Cranz Sep 22

Withings Hides Top Fitness Tracking Features in Attractive Watch

The Withings Activité, and the far more affordable Withings Activité Pop, showed the world that fitness trackers don’t necessarily have to look hideous. And while the new heart rate-tracking Steel HR makes some aesthetic compromises to gain smartwatch functionality, it’s still one of the most beautiful wearables you can buy. Instead of using an LCD…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski Sep 1

Samsung’s Gear S3 Is Simply Gigantic

Samsung’s just announced a major update to its Gear smartwatch, which is slowly but surely making a name for itself in a space crowded with Apple Watches and fashion pieces loaded with Android Wear. While all of Samsung’s competitors (apart from Apple) have embraced Google’s OS, Samsung continues to passionately beat the drum forits homegrown…

Gadgets Alex Cranz Aug 31

Asus’ ZenWatch 3 Promises to Address the Most Annoying Thing About Smartwatches

Last year, Asus’s ZenWatch 2 was a really great and eminently affordable Android Wear device. This year, Asus is back with the ZenWatch 3, and it is addressing the pathetic battery-life problems that have plagued smartwatches for years. The ZenWatch 3 promises two days of battery life. It’s straight-up sad that in 2016, we’re still…

Tech News Christina Warren Aug 31

Double-Sided Strap Lets You Hide Your Apple Watch Shame Under a Nicer Timepiece

Like a horological version of a mullet, watchmaker Sinn has created something it calls the Dual Strap System allowing someone to wear both a traditional watch, and the Apple Watch, at the same time. It’s business up front with the analog timepiece, and a party in the back with all of the added smartwatch functionality.…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski Aug 12

Polar’s New Fitness Tracker Is a Full-on Android Smartwatch

We were disappointed when Polar sacrificed the GPS capabilities of the M400 smart sports watch so that its A300, revealed in early 2015, could hit the market with a cheaper price tag. But affordability is apparently no longer as important to the company as features, because Polar’s new M600 is a full-on Android Wear smartwatch.…

Health Andrew Liszewski Aug 3

The Best Smartwatches for People Who Hate Smartwatches

Despite the name, smartwatches can be kind of dumb. Sure, they can do cool things, like control your music and put notifications on your wrist. But battery life woes and underwhelming platforms leave you questioning the real IQ of these supposedly “smart” devices. However, there is a road less traveled: an area unexplored by big…

Gadgets Darren Orf May 26

Pebble’s New Smartwatches Have a Fitness Obsession

Smartwatches leave a lot to be desired, but Pebble usually brings refreshingly different ideas to the wearable conversation. It’s one of the reasons why we’ve always been such big fans. Pebble continually done wrist notifications and battery life very well. Now, it’s adding a third: fitness. Today, Pebble is launching a new Kickstarter for the…

Tech News Darren Orf May 24

Ex-Apple CEO Who Tried To Sell People the Newton Thinks the Apple Watch Sucks

John Sculley, the guy who famously fired Steve Jobs and subsequently tried to sell the Newton PDA to people, thinks the Apple Watch is lame. Remember, this is maybe the worst thing Apple ever made. TheStreet caught up with Sculley, who lives in Florida and owns many Apple products, including both an iPhone and an…

Tech News Darren Orf May 11

A Multi-Screen Smartwatch Might Actually Be a Brilliant Idea

The dual-screen Nintendo DS wasn’t warmly received when first revealed, but it’s gone on to be one of the company’s best-selling consoles. And a team of researchers have come up with a convincing argument as to why a smartwatch might actually be improved with two screens as well. What sets the Doppio concept—designed and engineered…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski May 6

This New ‘Skinterface’ Could Make Smartwatches Suck Less

If smartwatches are going to create a gadget future beyond smartphones, they’ll have to up their game. Researchers from Carnegie Mellon may have just the thing with a new smartwatch interface that uses that fleshy bezel right next to the typically tiny displays: your arm. Called SkinTrack, this “whoa future” idea comes in two parts,…

Gadgets Darren Orf May 5

The Best Smartwatch For Every Wrist

I’ve been keen on smartwatches pretty much since day one. I get a lot of emails, texts, and assorted notifications, most of them garbage but some vitally important. Having a glancable screen on my wrist makes life infinitely easier. But smartwatches have come a long way since they showed up a few years ago. Which…

Reviews Gizmodo Staff Apr 24

Where Is the iPod of Smartwatches?

The lifecycle of a new gadget is relatively predictable: When it’s brand new, only early adopters are interested. Once the technology matures, everybody buys one. But smartwatches still haven’t caught on with most people—and that’s because no one has made a smartwatch that’s worth its cost. The big players have already shown their hands. Google’s…

Tech News Darren Orf Mar 25

A Clever New Strap Brings EKG Readings to the Apple Watch

Apple had big plans for its Apple Watch before it launched last year but had to scrap many of its more forward-thinking features, including an electrocardiogram sensor or EKG. But one company, AliveCor, wants to add the feature retroactively with its own strap. It’s called Kardia. Like many of AliveCor’s iPhone cases, the strap uses…

Tech News Darren Orf Mar 16

Fitbit Blaze Review: This Is Why People Hate Smartwatches

The big photos in the Macy’s window sell a gorgeous device. It’s sleek and a perfect blend of class and 80s retro-aesthetics. The magazine spreads and the shots in internet ads and even the outside of the box concur: the Fitbit Blaze is a goddamn looker. Then you open the box and the device comes…

Accessories & Wearables Alex Cranz Mar 9

Will.i.am Thinks We’re Idiots, Makes Another Smartwatch

When Will.i.am launched the Puls smartwatch/bangle/jewelry thing in 2014, it was so bad, we were actually kind of impressed. (Let’s also not forget the musician’s disaster of a smartphone case, foto.sosho.) But Will.i.am is trying again. Undeterred by his past hardware disasters, the Black-Eyed Pea’s thirsty frontman just announced a wrist computer called the Dial.…

Tech News Darren Orf Feb 19

Tag Heuer Connected Review: A Great $300 Smartwatch For Five Times The Price

The Tag Heuer Connected is the first Android Wear smartwatch made by a Swiss watchmaker. With a big display, a stainless steel frame, and powerful guts inside, the Connected is the forefather to all the luxury wrist wearables that will inevitably follow it, and it’s a wonderful piece of wrist gear. It’s also $1,500. If…

Reviews Darren Orf Feb 10

Add Heart Rate Monitoring to the Pebble Time With a Simple Snap-on Case

Pebble smartwatches have always taken a more basic approach when it comes to cramming functionality into a wearable. But for those hoping their Pebble was a little more capable as a fitness tracker, Tylt has designed a simple case that upgrades the Pebble Time with a heart rate monitor. Tylt is probably better known for…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski Jan 27

Casio’s Sensor-Packed Android Wear Watch Can Survive the Outdoors Longer Than You

You probably grew up with a cheap Casio on your wrist, but the company’s first Android Wear offering is a very different product. It’s engineered to be tough enough for outdoor enthusiasts who need more than just notifications of Facebook likes. By no means as high-end as Tag Heuer’s recently revealed $1,500 Android Wear spectacle,…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski Jan 5

Your Smartwatch’s Motion Sensors Can Reveal Everything You Type (Including Passwords)

You can now add smartwatches to the list of potential ways your private data could be leaked. Tony Beltramelli, a Master’s students at the IT University of Copenhagen, has shown that even your wearable could be used to compromise your privacy by tracking your every keystroke. That’s not to say that out of the box…

Privacy & Security Andrew Liszewski Dec 31

The Apple Watch No Longer Totally Sucks

Withings Hides Top Fitness Tracking Features in Attractive Watch

Samsung’s Gear S3 Is Simply Gigantic

Asus’ ZenWatch 3 Promises to Address the Most Annoying Thing About Smartwatches

Double-Sided Strap Lets You Hide Your Apple Watch Shame Under a Nicer Timepiece

Polar’s New Fitness Tracker Is a Full-on Android Smartwatch

The Best Smartwatches for People Who Hate Smartwatches

Pebble’s New Smartwatches Have a Fitness Obsession

Ex-Apple CEO Who Tried To Sell People the Newton Thinks the Apple Watch Sucks

A Multi-Screen Smartwatch Might Actually Be a Brilliant Idea

This New ‘Skinterface’ Could Make Smartwatches Suck Less

The Best Smartwatch For Every Wrist

Where Is the iPod of Smartwatches?

A Clever New Strap Brings EKG Readings to the Apple Watch

Fitbit Blaze Review: This Is Why People Hate Smartwatches

Will.i.am Thinks We’re Idiots, Makes Another Smartwatch

Tag Heuer Connected Review: A Great $300 Smartwatch For Five Times The Price

Add Heart Rate Monitoring to the Pebble Time With a Simple Snap-on Case

Casio’s Sensor-Packed Android Wear Watch Can Survive the Outdoors Longer Than You

Your Smartwatch’s Motion Sensors Can Reveal Everything You Type (Including Passwords)

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