January 2017 Archive
31st January
- Week 3: Mike’s food tracking diary: The struggle is real
- Living with the Royole Moon, a wearable home cinema
- Living with Asteroid OS – The open source Android Wear alternative
- The Upright Go aims to solve your back pain and screen slouch
30th January
- This headband lets lazy people control Netflix with their mind
- This cricket wearable could revolutionise bowling through sensors
- Meet Opto Air, the headset aiming to bring good mobile VR to the masses
29th January
27th January
- Can you buy eco-friendly and ethical wearable tech?
- Wearable baby monitors do more harm than good says medical study
- Humon: Measuring oxygen levels is the fitness metric everyone is going to want
- What doctors actually want to know from your health trackers
- This stylish hybrid smartwatch will give you two years of battery life
26th January
- Five connected design concepts to help us grow old with sci-fi flair
- TomTom’s new Sports app is live and there’s some big changes
- #Trending: VR storytelling grows up fast
- Catapult’s tech is giving the NFL its Moneyball moment
- Apple and Fitbit dominated wearable tech sales over the holidays – again
25th January
- The best fitness apps for your wearables
- Living with Halo Sport: A brain training wearable to unleash your inner athlete
- HTC’s Android Wear smartwatch is officially dead
24th January
- VR at Sundance 2017: Rise of the series, mixed reality experiments and VR for good
- Intel on teaming up with New Balance and the key to smartwatch survival
- Facebook’s Oculus Rooms on Gear VR is good for chat, TV and games
23rd January
- The smart nicotine patch that could help smokers quit
- VR avatars, acoustic tracking & AI are heading to NYC Women Startup Challenge
- Week 2: Mike’s food tracking diary – I’m in measurement hell
- A HTC Vive fitness tracker (not a smartwatch) could be on the way
20th January
- In pictures: Designer smartwatches next to the watches they’re based on
- #Trending: Sharing the wearable tech love
- Could augmented reality be used to treat colour blindness? Magic Leap thinks so
- Smartwatch companion app installs explored: Who tops the downloads list?
19th January
- London’s Realities Centre is exploring education, AI & health in VR and AR
- TomTom on bringing personal coaching to your wrist – and maybe your clothes
18th January
- Whoop Strap 2.0 review
- Zuck: Facebook is going to spend $3 billion to get VR to where it needs to be
- ZTE’s first Android Wear smartwatch gets certified, set to get 3G support
- Lumo is opening up its secret tech so others can build interesting wearables
- Gabe Newell talks new Valve VR games and Vive controllers
- This Paper Watch could be an affordable fitness tracker alternative
17th January
- Explained: Oculus and Zenimax court battle – the story so far, and where it’s going
- Android Wear 2.0 set for 9 February
- This stand will turn your Apple Watch into a mini Macintosh
16th January
- Four ways wearable tech and VR design verges on sexist – and how to fix it
- Hybrid smartwatches will make up 40% of total sales in five years
- Week 1: Mike’s food tracking diary
- Misfit Phase review
- Smart body armour could soon detect soldiers’ brain injuries
15th January
14th January
13th January
- LG’s smartwatch line leaks: Watch Style, Watch Pro, Watch Force & Watch Sole
- Huawei Fit review
- Wearables can predict you’ll be ill days before you feel the symptoms
- Eonite’s inside-out tracking tech could be VR’s next big breakthrough
12th January
- #Trending: Fitbit is doing everything but launching new trackers
- Superflex and Yves Béhar team up on powered bodysuits for the elderly
- Fitbit tried (and failed) to buy Jawbone at the end of 2016
- Fitbit finally gets serious about delivering more meaningful fitness tracker data
- Why HTC isn’t building the Vive 2, but creating an ecosystem first
11th January
10th January
- After Pebble, Fitbit snaps up Vector smartwatch startup
- Rain check: This smart umbrella warns you if a storm’s a-comin’
9th January
- Huawei’s VR headset is exactly what Daydream needs – a Gear VR form factor
- Mymanu Clik smart earbuds are coming to translate languages in real time
- Merge VR’s Holo Cube let me play Minecraft in the palm of my hand
- Wareable is hiring a US-based reporter
- Pico Neo CV: This is virtually freedom
8th January
7th January
- A look at Fossil’s Spring 2017 collection: Q Accomplice, Modern Pursuit and more
- How Bragi blew my mind at CES with a helicopter and a hairdresser
6th January
- GoPro Hero5 Black review
- There were no real wearable tech surprises at CES 2017 – but that’s OK
- The best wearable tech at CES 2017
- Windows VR headsets are here – HP, Dell, Acer and Lenovo’s affordable headgear
- The jump science behind Under Armour’s smart running shoes
- Trying Vuzix Blade 3000, the smartglasses for work and play
- Suunto’s new Sport Wrist HR watch sets hearty expectations
5th January
- Intel’s Project Alloy headset will go on sale by the end of 2017
- VoiceGenie set to bring Alexa to the hearable masses
- LEVL smells your breath to detect fat burn
- Going wireless is great, but the HTC Vive’s new Tracker is the real game changer
- Bactrack’s wearable will tell you how drunk you are
4th January
- QardioCore medical-grade ECG chest strap wants to monitor your heart health
- Sensoria’s new smart running socks coach from the feet
- Bloomlife wants to be your personal pregnancy coach
- Reliefband Neurowave wants to help combat VR motion sickness
- Nuheara IQbuds are now ready to filter your world of sound
- Fuse’s wearables cleverly solve the problem with wireless earbuds
- Withings made a smart hairbrush that criticises your cack-handed technique
- Withings Steel HR review
- Armani Exchange’s first hybrid smartwatch has rugged good looks
- LG’s Hub robot is a smart companion with a friendly pair of eyes
3rd January
- 20 essential wearable tech feeds so you always know what’s up
- Mio Slice tracker is finally ready to whip you into shape
- Polar Team Pro Shirt to help sports teams ditch the chest strap
- Bodytrak promises to accurately measure vitals from the ears
- Motiv Ring wants to track fitness from your finger
- 50 wearable tech gamechangers for 2017