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Hugh Langley
Hugh joined Wareable from TechRadar where he’d been writing news, features, reviews and just about everything else you can think of for three years.
Prior to that he freelanced while studying, writing about bad indie bands and slightly better movies. He found his way into tech journalism at the beginning of the wearables boom, when everyone was talking about Google Glass and the Oculus Rift was merely a Kickstarter campaign - and has been fascinated ever since.
He’s particularly interested in VR and any fitness tech that will help him (eventually) get back into shape. Hugh has also written for T3, Wired, Total Film, Little White Lies and China Daily.
Article History:
How to calibrate your Fitbit: Improve the accuracy of step tracking
No-one likes getting short changed, so if you think your Fitbit is logging too many steps – or worse, not enough – then calibrating your fitness tracker could be the answer. Fitbit offers a few ways to tweak the algorithm to ensure better accuracy, and we've laid out a few tips below to make sure…
Apple just quietly launched a new Beddit sleep tracker
Ever since Apple bought the Finnish sleep tracking company Beddit in 2017, there's been no end of speculation regarding Cupertino's plans to track our sleep. The company has made its first move since the acquisition, launching the new Beddit 3.5 Sleep Monitor. Like the previous Beddit sleep trackers, this one is also a thin sensor…
Soulja Boy has made a smartwatch that looks a lot like an Apple Watch
DeAndre Cortez Way, aka Soulja Boy, aka Soulja Boy Tell 'Em has never returned to the career high of his hit Crank That (Soulja Boy). But Mr Way is a Renaissance man: rapper, producer, actor, and now peddler of knock-off smartwatches. Soulja Boy this week launched his new line of merchandise, which includes games consoles…
The Bose Frames audio AR sunglasses can be yours in January
Of all the things we saw at this year's SXSW show, Bose's AR sunglasses were by far the most impressive - and Bose has finally announced when we can strap a pair to our face. The glasses, which use audio instead of visuals, will be available January for $199, with pre-orders starting right now. Bose…
Huami and Timex are teaming up to make a 'new generation' of smartwatches
Chinese wearable maker Huami has announced it's joining forces with watchmaker Timex to build a "new generation" of smartwatches. Huami, which is backed by Xiaomi, will bring its technology and AI to the table while Timex has the watchmaking know-how. Timex flirted with hybrid smartwatches with the IQ+ Move, but it seemed like those efforts…
Field of View: HTC's next VR headset could be the Vive Cosmos
Welcome back to another edition of Field of View, our weekly roundup of the hottest news in VR and AR. With the Black Friday/Cyber Monday madness now over, it's back to business as usual. The news this week? Microsoft HoloLens will be used by the US Army in live combat and training, which might be…
Huawei will launch a pair of AR smartglasses in next two years
Huawei, never one to knowingly stay off the bandwagon, has confirmed it's working on a pair of augmented reality glasses, which it plans to launch in the coming couple of years. Richard Yu, CEO of the company's consumer group, told CNBC that the company is currently at work on a pair of AR glasses, but…
There's a new Google Glass on the way - but it probably isn't for you
Google Glass ain't dead yet. The assisted-reality glasses look set to get another edition, five years after the first pair debuted, according to a new filing with the FCC. Now before you get too excited (does anyone still get excited about Glass?), remember that Google put the consumer Google Glass out to pasture last year,…
The new Withings Pulse HR fitness tracker is a blast from the past
Now Withings has made its triumphant return, no longer under the purview of Nokia, it's firing on all cylinders to re-establish its name. Just two months after announcing the Withings Steel HR Sport, it's back with a new fitness tracker, the Withings Pulse HR. By Withings' own admission it's a bit of a throwback to…
Valve may be about to launch a VR headset with a new Half-Life game
Valve, a company which these days seems to do little more than purge our wallets with its Steam sales, might be about to launch a VR headset. Some photos of a prototype headset, sporting a Valve logo, have made their way onto the internet. The images were leaked on Imgur and show multiple prototypes stacked…
Skagen Falster 2 review
The Skagen Falster 2 has a lot to live up to, not just because the first Skagen Falster smartwatch was the best looking Wear smartwatch of its time (a whole 11 months ago), but also because the follow-up promises so much on paper. The Falster's biggest problem was that its best qualities were only skin…
HTC Vive Focus VR headset arrives in US and UK, but there’s a better one coming
HTC has announced its standalone VR headset is finally coming to the West. The Vive Focus is available starting today in the US and Europe, with the base model costing $599. But HTC is positioning the Vive Focus as an enterprise product. In fact, the Vive Focus launch in San Francisco was billed as an…
Apple drops hint that the AirPods 2 will track your health
The AirPods have proved such a smash hit for Apple that a follow-up isn't so much a question of if, but when. And a new hint tells us that the AirPods 2 may have wellness sensors. The folks at Patently Apple noticed that Apple has updated its AirPods trademark in Hong Kong and Europe with…
The Muse 2 headband takes some of the guesswork out of meditation
Muse has announced a new meditation headband - the Muse 2 - a portable electroencephalograph (EEG) device that tracks brain waves to help guide you into a meditative state. Muse's first headband, which launched in 2014, converted this EEG signal into sounds reflecting the real-time state of your brain. The idea was that the headband…
Week in wearable: TicWatch C2, Misfit Vapor 2, and Wear OS learns a new trick
It’s time for your weekend wearable bulletin. Week in wearable is where we round up the stories, big and small, that made headlines over the last seven days. It’s certainly been another corker of a week, with more new devices than you can shake a smartwatch at. Mobvoi launched the TicWatch C2 and the Misfit…
Charged up: Why I'm fine with Facebook cancelling the Oculus Rift 2
News broke this week that Oculus co-founder Brendan Iribe was departing Facebook. While the terms of his departure seemed amicable in his public statement, there was a different story being told elsewhere. According to TechCrunch, Iribe walked after canceled plans for an Oculus Rift 2. Or at least, the Rift 2 as Iribe envisioned it:…
Facebook confirms that it's building a pair of AR glasses
Facebook has already hinted strongly at its AR ambitions, but the company has now confirmed that it is definitely, unequivocally working on augmented reality glasses. “Yeah! Well of course we’re working on it,” Facebook's head of augmented reality Ficus Kirkpatrick told TechCrunch. “We are building hardware products. We’re going forward on this... We want to…
Swatch says it still plans to launch Swiss OS no later than early 2019
In March 2017, Swatch CEO Nick Hayek revealed that the Swiss watchmaker was working on a smartwatch operating system named 'Swiss OS', which would launch in late 2018. Then everything went quiet - but the company has told us we can expect its smartwatch software to debut soon. A spokesperson for the company told Wareable…
Oculus Rift 2 reportedly cancelled as co-founder departs company
Oculus VR co-founder Brendan Iribe has announced he's leaving Facebook, marking another major exit from the company and another notable Oculus name to walk. Iribe announced his departure in a Facebook post, where he wrote he was "deeply proud and grateful" for all the work the team had accomplished. Iribe founded Oculus VR with Palmer…
Fitbit Charge 3 review
The Fitbit Charge 3 arrives at an interesting time for the wearables industry. When I sat down with Fitbit co-founder Eric Friedman and asked him whether the fitness tracker has much of a future left, he was adamant that this category still has gas in the tank. But analysts disagree: smartwatches are starting to encroach…