Wearable computer

An Original Seiko ‘Apple Watch’ From 1988 Is up for Auction

Thirty-three years ago, the Seiko WristMac might have been the first true Apple Watch.

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski Nov 22

The Moto Watch 100 Is a Budget Smartwatch That Weirdly Doesn’t Run Google’s Wear OS

The new Moto Watch OS is also compatible with iPhones.

Gadgets Florence Ion Nov 16

No One Wants a Smartwatch With Two Cameras

Wear OS needs a faster chip, not useless features. It's time for Qualcomm to quit playing around.

Gadgets Victoria Song Sep 2

The Next AirPods Pro Could Double as Fitness Trackers

For the past few months, rumors about the next-gen AirPods have been pretty consistent—they’re going to have shorter stems and crib some design elements from the AirPods Pro. But a new Bloomberg report is finally giving us something fresh to chew on. When the next-gen AirPods Pro arrive sometime in 2022, they’ll reportedly have fitness…

Tech News Victoria Song May 28

The Fitbit Ace 3 Rewards Kids for Leaving Their Screens

Lockdown, or as it was known in my house, “the 24-hour iPad party,” has cut into our family’s exercise time considerably. My three young children spend most of the day on their devices, whether in remote learning or remote Minecrafting, and we’ve been thinking hard about how to get them out of the house. TheFitbit…

Accessories & Wearables John Biggs Apr 14

This Is the Worst Smartwatch I’ve Ever Used

It’s rare for a flagship gadget to fail on every single front, and yet the OnePlus Watch has managed to pull it off. Every little thing went wrong when I tested this watch. It tracked every activity inaccurately. It said I was sleeping when I was awake. My step counts were off by more than…

Accessories & Wearables Victoria Song Apr 13

You Don’t Actually Want a Wraparound Smartwatch

I get it. A flexible OLED display that extends all the way around your wrist looks cyberpunk as hell. But as cool as it sounds—and looks—this is a bad wearable design that benefits no one other than sci-fi writers and filmmakers. I say this because a few short months ago, Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo hinted…

Gadgets Victoria Song Mar 23

This Watch Is Actually an Undercover Metronome for Musicians

There are wearables that measure your heart rate, your sleep patterns, and your blood oxygen levels. But then there’s a wearable that will let you know if you’re rushing or dragging on “Caravan,” which could be a life-saver in its own right. The $329 Soundbrenner Core Steel is designed primarily for musicians. Soundbrenner’s wearable is…

Accessories & Wearables John Biggs Mar 22

Facebook Teases Futuristic Wrist-Based Wearable That Will Let You Control AR With Your Mind

Facebook is really, really serious about augmented reality. Last year, the company showed off a frankly ambitious framework for the future of AR, and now the social media giant has revealed some of the advanced gadgets it’s designing to help people interact with the AR world. The Facebook Reality Labs Research team’s biggest challenge is…

Social Media Sam Rutherford Mar 18

Apple Patent Hopes We’ll All Show Feet in AR

One thing that most Big Tech companies working on smart glasses haven’t figure out yet is how to effectively interact with an augmented reality environment. Apple is heavily rumored to be working on its own pair of AR glasses and apparently considered vibrating haptic socks to tackle this problem. A new patent spotted by AppleInsider…

Tech News Victoria Song Mar 16

A Kirigami-Inspired Sensor Could Help Stop Back Damage From Computer Work

Sitting for long hours hunched over a keyboard is terrible for your neck and back, a problem that’s only been exacerbated as more people work from home during the pandemic. Aside from investing in more ergonomic furniture or actually getting up to move and stretch regularly, there’s not a whole lot out there to help…

Gadgets Victoria Song Mar 12

I Tried a Guided Fitbit Meditation With Deepak Chopra, but I’m Still Stressed

This past fall, Fitbit went hard on mental well-being with its Sense smartwatch, which introduced an electrodermal activity sensor (EDA) to help quantify your stress levels. It was a thoughtful addition that went above and beyond the typical breathing reminders you see on smartwatches. Now, the company is hoping to lure more users to its…

Gadgets Victoria Song Feb 23

Apple Watch Can Detect Covid-19 a Week Early, Study Finds

In the early days of the pandemic, dozens of researchers launched studies trying to see whether wearables of all sorts could potentially identify covid-19 before symptoms began. In one such study, researchers from Mount Sinai discovered that the Apple Watch was capable of detecting the onset of covid-19 up to seven days before current testing…

Gadgets Victoria Song Feb 11

Scientists Have Created a Recyclable, Self-Healing Wearable That Could One Day Power Gadgets

No one wants their gadget to have crappy battery life, but it’s particularly annoying with wearables. If that new fitness tracker needs to be recharged too often, it’s going to collect dust in a drawer somewhere. Well good news, everyone. Scientists have figured out how to build a wearable thermoelectric generator that’s super stretchy, self-healing,…

Earther Victoria Song Feb 10

Garmin’s Tiny Lily Smartwatch Doesn’t Need All This Pandering Women-Centric Branding to Be Good

Often, when I show off a new smartwatch I’m testing to my gal pals, they inevitably crinkle their noses. “It’s…so big. And ugly,” they say. “I’d never wear something like that.” It’s something I’ve harped about in many a smartwatch review, a plea from the small-wristed among us for a wearable that doesn’t leave us…

Gadgets Victoria Song Jan 27

A Fitness Tracker Shouldn’t Make You Feel Like Trash

I can’t figure out who, exactly, Amazon’s Halo Band is designed for. The screen-free band works in the background to track your activity and sleep, and it also has microphones to listen in on your conversations and analyze your tone. There is some appeal to a screen-free wearable that can cut down the distractions in…

Accessories & Wearables Caitlin McGarry Jan 19

A Wearable Computer for When You’re Being Shot At

Get that MacBook Air outta here! We’re in a WAR ZONE, kid! There’s no time for trackpads and USB and little spinning beach balls. So, here, put on this camo vest that also has a computer inside it. Get some. Black Diamond Advanced Technology’s Modular Tactical System spreads a PC’s guts across your torso, modular-style.…

Tech News Sam Biddle May 27

DIY Wearable Computer Turns You Into a Cyborg

Someday humans and computers will meld together to create cyborgs. But instead of waiting for it, Martin Magnusson, a Swedish researcher and entrepreneur, has taken the first step and created a wearable computer that can be slung across the body. Magnusson has hacked a pair of head-mounted display glasses and combined it with a homebrewed…

Tech News Priya Ganapati - Wired Jul 30

Fashionable Computer Not Too Stylish

I call it kind of ugly, though AVing likes to call it a UFC (Ubiquitous Fashionable Computer). Still others may put it in the wearable computer box, but this new product was being shown off by KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) at the SoC 2005 & New Generation PC fair. Featuring a…

Gadgets Tgrumet Nov 7

An Original Seiko ‘Apple Watch’ From 1988 Is up for Auction

The Moto Watch 100 Is a Budget Smartwatch That Weirdly Doesn’t Run Google’s Wear OS

No One Wants a Smartwatch With Two Cameras

The Next AirPods Pro Could Double as Fitness Trackers

The Fitbit Ace 3 Rewards Kids for Leaving Their Screens

This Is the Worst Smartwatch I’ve Ever Used

You Don’t Actually Want a Wraparound Smartwatch

This Watch Is Actually an Undercover Metronome for Musicians

Facebook Teases Futuristic Wrist-Based Wearable That Will Let You Control AR With Your Mind

Apple Patent Hopes We’ll All Show Feet in AR

A Kirigami-Inspired Sensor Could Help Stop Back Damage From Computer Work

I Tried a Guided Fitbit Meditation With Deepak Chopra, but I’m Still Stressed

Apple Watch Can Detect Covid-19 a Week Early, Study Finds

Scientists Have Created a Recyclable, Self-Healing Wearable That Could One Day Power Gadgets

Garmin’s Tiny Lily Smartwatch Doesn’t Need All This Pandering Women-Centric Branding to Be Good

A Fitness Tracker Shouldn’t Make You Feel Like Trash

A Wearable Computer for When You’re Being Shot At

DIY Wearable Computer Turns You Into a Cyborg

Fashionable Computer Not Too Stylish

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