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Samsung Galaxy Watch review
The Samsung Galaxy Watch is a smartwatch that will inevitably get compared to the Apple Watch Series 4, the Fitbit Versa and an army of Wear OS watches. Yes, there are other smartwatches out there, but these are the brands and watches that, along with Samsung, are making the biggest noise in this space right…
The best Samsung Galaxy Watch apps
You've picked up your shiny new Samsung Galaxy Watch and explored the first few screens, but now it's time to get serious and explore the best apps. Luckily for you, there's a strong amount to choose from compared to previous generations, with Samsung's decision to add sleep tracking and stress tracking opening up the Tizen…
How Royal Trinity Hospice is completing people's bucket lists with VR
We all want to complete our bucket lists before we die, going on adventures and checking off the most magical sights. But sometimes, you just can't get to everything on the list. You get too ill to travel, or you're in a freak accident and your entire world has changed. That's where virtual reality's unique…
How Halo Neuroscience will tailor its pro athlete wearable for regular folks
Halo Neuroscience’s flagship wearable – the Halo Sport – is an odd duck. It's a pair of headphones that uses something called neuropriming to enhance your progress, stimulating the part of the brain that’s responsible for muscle movement and making you more efficient at training in skill, endurance and strength. That’s made it useful for…
Huawei Watch GT v Samsung Galaxy Watch: Wear OS alternatives compared
Samsung and Huawei have been in the smartwatch game from the very start. Both have had contrasting fortunes, but in the Huawei Watch GT and Samsung Galaxy Watch, we have two of the best we've had the pleasure of using. Both use their own operating systems. The Watch GT comes with Huawei's Lite OS that…
Oaxis' Timepiece is like a more minimalist Withings Steel HR
Withings' signature wearable, the Steel HR, is arguably one of the more iconic smartwatch designs out there, with a clean face and tiny digital display. Now Oaxis wants to take it on with the Timepiece, its own hybrid smartwatch, which is available on Kickstarter now for $89. In fact, the Timepiece is even more minimalist…
Snap is reportedly planning a more advanced pair of Spectacles for this year
Snap has steadily improved its Spectacles smartglasses. The first version was great for vacations, but very limited, while the second iteration righted some wrongs but didn't go far enough. The third version look to push forward a little more. Cheddar is reporting that Snap is working on a pair of $350 Spectacles with dual cameras…
Apple Watch Series 4 v Fitbit Charge 3: Fitness tracking smarts compared
The Charge line is Fitbit's best-selling brand of fitness trackers. The Apple Watch Series 4 is, well, an Apple Watch. Both of them are two of the more popular wearables you can slap on your wrist. The Apple Watch is a full-on smartwatch, with an app store and a number of big features. Apple has…
How to use Google Maps on Wear OS
If you're taking your Wear OS smartwatch out for a run without a phone and want to explore the area around you - maybe you're looking for a post-workout hydration - you're going to need a good mapping app. And right now there's no better option than Google's own map app. Google Maps isn't preinstalled,…
Misfit Vapor 2 review
With the Misfit Vapor 2, our biggest hope was that it would atone for the mistakes of the first. You see, the story of the original Misfit Vapor is a sad one. It was meant to run on Misfit’s proprietary OS, and it was looking like a unique, interesting smartwatch with a good handful of…
Apple AirPods 2 investigation: What we know and what we could see
Apple's AirPods are a runaway success, and the Cupertino company is naturally looking to release a new version to keep the momentum going. The original pair of AirPods aren't the smartest earbuds, but they're a good first step. They're easy to use, have good battery life and pair really well with a cellular Apple Watch.…
This smart t-shirt changes colour to help your kid avoid sunburn
UV-tracking wearables, which tell you when you've been out in the sun too long, have grown in popularity over the past couple of years. L'Oréal has the My Skin Track UV, and there's also LogicInk's UV-sensing tattoo. Now Adam & Aoki has a new take: a shirt that can tell you when you've had enough…
UnitedHealthcare will pay for your Apple Watch if you meet your fitness goals
Back in 2016 UnitedHealthcare and Qualcomm teamed up on a fitness program called Motion. It's an incentive program that can earn you up to $1,460 a year by meeting fitness goals. While it started with a custom wearable, it soon added support for devices from Fitbit and then Samsung and Garmin. And now it's adding…
Apple has a weird idea for putting FaceTime on the Watch
FaceTime is one of the most popular ways to video call, and it's available on almost every Apple device you can get your hands on. Every device but the Apple Watch, that is. But it looks like Apple might soon change that. A new patent granted by the US Patent and Trademark Office, first spotted…
Spotify's official Apple Watch app is now available to download
After launching Spotify apps for both Wear OS and Garmin, the streaming music service has finally launched the first version of the Spotify Apple Watch app. After letting beta testers get their hands on an early version of the app, it's now available for anyone with Apple's smartwatch to try out. Read this: Best Apple…
Konect Sports' first wearable measures reaction times for entire teams
Way back in February Konect Sports previewed its new platform. The platform would put a sensor on each player and allow the sports team to track players before, during and after games to measure performance (and how to improve performance). After some testing it's finally launching the Konect Speed, a product born out of the…
YouTube launches Oculus Go app - and makes it easier to create VR videos
Virtual reality is going through some growing pains. Headsets like the Oculus Go and Quest are making it more consumer-friendly, but augmented reality is on the horizon and some VR stalwarts, like Jaunt, are shifting resources over to AR. That's not happening at YouTube, which is doubling down on VR today with a number of…
Field of View: Corning could be working on glass for Apple's AR glasses
Another week, another edition of Field of View, our look at all the news from the virtual and augmented reality worlds. This week we found out that the HTC Vive Focus is finally coming to the US and UK, though it comes with a bit of a catch. HTC is positioning the Focus as an…
Huawei's ultra affordable Band 3e fitness tracker arrives in the US
When Huawei unveiled the Watch GT and Band 3 Pro not long ago, it also unveiled a third wearable - an ultra affordable fitness tracker called the Band 3e. It turns out that it will be accompanying the Watch GT and Band 3 Pro to the US, and is available now for .…
Living with Level: How smartglasses made me feel like a terrible person
Smartglasses are hailed as the exciting future of wearables. One day, we'll all have fancy AR smartglasses on our face that will give us directions to Whole Foods and remind us of that 3pm meeting. But for those of us who need them, glasses simply help us do daily tasks like reading and driving. That's…