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Dan Sung
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The challenges of building a children's smartwatch
Are you a tech startup planning on making a wearable for children? If so, you might want to think again. It’s going to be expensive. It’s going to be difficult. One mistake in safety or privacy and you’ll disappear out of business but, on the plus side, you won’t have to worry about Apple. Most…
How to lose weight with wearable tech
So, you've invested in a smartwatch or fitness tracker and you're looking to lose weight. But now what - how do you actually harness the power of the device sitting on your wrist? Well, in order to find out, we spoke to the fitness instructors responsible for whipping soap opera celebs, Olympic athletes and even…
Inside Kokoon: Trials and tribulations of a Kickstarter success story
One year, ten months, three weeks and, at the time of writing, two days; that's how late the Kokoon EEG headphones are on delivering to the 8,489 Kickstarter backers who got behind its campaign back in May 2015. That's a long time to wait for a good night's sleep. Two years is the classic length…
The biggest wearable and smart home crowdfunding campaigns of all time
The Pebble Time smartwatch might not be the future of anything anymore but it is still pretty much untouchable as the highest grossing crowdfunding project of all time. Back in March 2015, it raised a cool $20 million from a massive 78,471 Kickstarter backers, racing past $1 million in just 30 minutes. But as the…
Helo LX: The story of Multi-Level Marketing and one overpriced health band
Multi-level Marketing is a nasty, nasty thing, and it's just gone wearable. MLMs are a barely legal business practice where your customers become your salespeople – your distributors – in exchange for the promise of commissions for the sales that they make and the chance to earn the big bucks if they can convince some…
Wearable world: The hottest wearable tech hubs around the globe
From Fitbit to Oculus; pick a big hitting wearable company and you'll probably find them nestled in the bosom of California's Silicon Valley, just the same as most other sectors of the technology kingdom. But there are other hotspots for trackers, smartwatches, brain trainers and the like in more unexpected parts of the world. For…
What is the Internet of Things? The tech revolution explained
The Internet of Things is one of the sillier phrases you'll hear, but behind this buzzword is an example of one of the most important revolutions in technology. It's an all-encompassing term that refers to the internet changing from a giant network of PCs to a mega-network that's connected to everything around you. From your…
VR's the star: 10 must-see movies about virtual reality
Virtual reality is a gift of a mechanism for screenwriters and directors in Hollywood. It allows them to push plot limits of what's governed by the laws physics and, best of all, it means they can play with that most delicate of subjects of what is real. Fortunately, the silver screen of years gone by…
I stuck three kids wearables on my 7 year old son - a parent and child group test
A number I don't recognise is ringing my phone. Unfortunately, I think I know who this is. I answer. "Hello?" "Hello, daddy. It's break time." "Didn't we say that you weren't going to use your watch at school?" I have roped my family, and our neighbour's family, into testing out some wearable for kids. While…
Celebrity wearables: who's wearing what?
Over the last few years, celebrities have done their fair bit - intentional or not - to help push wearables into the mainstream. Tech companies love nothing more than getting some devastatingly attractive trendsetter to flaunt their goods, especially if they don't even have to pay them to do so. We originally ran this article…
The best helmet cams: Top movie shooters for cyclists and adventurers
Not everyone can do a wheelie, let alone pull any kind of stunt worthy of a top-of-the-line GoPro but that's ok, because wearable helmet cameras aren't just for the radical. There are other, more practical reasons to record your ride. You might want to do it for purposes of safety, you may wish to analyse…
S+ sleep tracker review
The S+ is a sleep monitor that promises to analyse and improve your bed time. While pretty much every fitness tracker claims to help you make more sense of your snoozing, this device has been built by ResMed, a US company that was working in sleep decades before anyone was talking about Fitbit. ResMed sells…
Sense sleep tracker review
Sense blew Kickstarter away in 2014, raising $2.4m, and now the stylish sleep tracker is available to buy in all good shops for . Sense is the brainchild of James Proud, who upped sticks from South London to code like crazy in California and set up Hello, a smart devices enterprise with a…
Wareable big test: 5 budget fitness trackers go head-to-head
Fitness trackers don't have to cost a bomb to help you reach your goals. In fact, the plummeting price of basic fitness trackers means you shouldn't have to spend over 50 bucks. Not all budget fitness trackers were made equally, though, so we've picked up five of the most popular names on the market and…
Central Saint Martins 2016: Weird and wonderful wearable tech concepts
Central Saint Martins in London's Granary Square is a fabulous hotbed of future design. Neighboured by Google and buzzing with young minds, there are thousands of cutting edge projects forming inside every day like stars in a nebula. CSM Show 2 is when those very best concepts take form, the doors to this branch of…
XMetrics Pro review
The XMetrics Pro aims to fix the biggest problem faced by the Garmin Swim – our previous favourite swimming wearable: that it's not actually very easy to look at while you're in the pool. And it's a problem for a bunch of excellent swimming devices such as the Moov Now, Garmin Vivosmart HR or Polar…
Can you track runs with a fitness tracker? Wearable tech myths debunked
The man on the street is dummy - at least when it comes to wearable technology. In fact, he and your mate down the pub should get together and have the world's least well-informed children on the subjects of fitness trackers, smartwatches and all the other connected self insights that we cover here on Wareable.…
Can sleep tracking make us feel better?
We're not sleeping enough. It's a fact. We're also not doing it very well even when we get round to it. Caffeine habits, sleeping pills, trips to the pub and all other forms of uppers, downers and all-arounders aren't helping; and all up against the shadowy spectre of stress through overwork and an ever-connected lifestyle.…
Wearables vs killer diseases: Is technology winning the fight?
There are no vaccines, no population immunity and no rapid or reliable diagnostic tests for the Zika virus. The World Health Organisation (WHO) has declared Zika a public health emergency and, alongside short-term coping measures, has called for the global community to intensify its efforts to fill in the gaps. Wearable technology would be an…
CES 2016: The wackiest wearables in town
Mercifully, the Consumer Electronics Show is not just about super-sized tech companies and their efforts at world domination via blanket brand extension. For every mighty oak with its fitness tracker designed to keep up with the Joneses, there is a startup looking to emerge from the showroom floor like the green shoots of a rainforest…