Wearable technology

Fitbit announces 3 new devices: here’s what they’ll cost in South Africa

Fitbit has announced its 2022 lineup of fitness trackers and smartwatches, including the new Sense 2, Versa 4, and Inspire 3. Here’s what to…

Fitbit announces Charge 5: price for South Africa

Fitbit has announced its latest fitness tracker — the Charge 5, which the company calls its most advanced tracker yet. The wearable includes several…

Samsung announces all-new Galaxy Watch 4: price for South Africa

Samsung has announced its “totally reimagined Galaxy Watch series” with the launch of the Galaxy Watch 4 series. The series, announced alongside the new…

Here’s a look at the South Africa-themed Apple Watch

Apple has launched a collection of Watch faces and bands to celebrate the 2021 Tokyo Olympic Games and South Africa is one of the…

TicWatch smartwatch brand comes to South Africa – price and details

A new smartwatch brand has landed in South Africa with the launch of TicWatch, along with price details for the watches. TicWatch is a…

1More ComfoBuds Pro wireless earphones review: Brilliant at the basics

The 1More Comfobuds Pro are my kind of wireless earphones. They boast something of a gamer, alien-like aesthetic in their appearance. The name suggests…

Samsung launches door-to-door repair service

Samsung South Africa has launched a new door-to-door repair service that collects and repairs customers’ smartphones and tablets. The tech giant launched the service…

Fitbit announces new Fitbit Luxe tracker – price and details for South Africa

Fitbit has announced the new Fitbit Luxe fitness tracker — which is meant to provide a more fashion-forward fitness device for consumers — along…

Lenovo announces augmented reality smart glasses

Lenovo has introduced the new ThinkReality A3 smart glasses at the Consumer Electronic Show (CES) 2021 — a wearable aimed at business and industrial…

Fitbit Charge 4 debuts in SA with GPS, effort monitoring for R2999

Fitbit on Tuesday announced the launch of its first device since its possible purchase by Google was announced late last year. The Fitbit Charge…

Microsoft’s planning to launch the HoloLens 2 in September for $3500

Microsoft’s HoloLens 2 augmented reality headset will go on sale in September, a report by Reuters confirmed on Thursday. According to the publication, Microsoft’s executive…

You can control Nike’s Huarache self-lacing sneakers with the Apple Watch and Siri

Nike is expanding its self-lacing FitAdapt technology to the new Nike Adapt Huarache sneakers, the company revealed on Thursday. Fashioned after the original 1991…

Sony is crowdfunding a wearable air conditioner called the Reon Pocket

Sony is crowdfunding a wearable air conditioner called Reon Pocket, a report by SlashGear (via First Flight) revealed on Friday. First Flight, Sony’s crowdfunding…

Samsung is designing AR smart glasses, patent filing suggests

Samsung is reportedly making its very own augmented reality smart glasses, Patently Mobile revealed on Friday. Recent patent filings by Samsung show off designs for…

Google Glass Enterprise Edition 2 features 8MP camera, Android Oreo

Google on Monday revealed the Glass Enterprise Edition 2, the company’s latest version of wearable spectacles for the workplace. “Workers can use Glass to…

Swipeable widgets called Tiles are coming to Google’s smartwatch OS

Wear OS, Google’s five-year-old smartwatch operating system, is finally getting some notable new feature love. Swipeable widgets called Tiles will be added to the…

Discovery Vitality is offering the Huawei Band 2 Pro in a 100% cash back promo

Discovery Vitality and Huawei will offer 100% cash back on a Huawei Band 2 Pro, but only if you meet all the required criteria,…

These three Huawei devices are also coming to South Africa this year

Although the Huawei P30 series headlined the Chinese company’s South African launch event on Wednesday, it also announced the availability of “companion” devices. Speaking…

Fitbit’s bringing four new wearables to South Africa in 2019

Fitbit South Africa on Thursday announced pricing for its four new wearables heading to the country in 2019: the Versa Lite, Inspire, Inspire HR,…

Fitbit debuts a health tracker only your company, insurer can buy for you

Fitbit quietly launched a new health tracking wearable that comes with a bit of a disclaimer: unlike its other device lines, the Inspire and…

Huawei’s smartwatches, wearables join the Discovery Vitality programme

If you’ve just purchased a new Huawei fitness or smartwatch and was disappointing to hear that the company’s wares were not part of the…

Google is buying mystery smartwatch tech from Fossil

Traditional and smartwatch maker Fossil has announced that it’s selling smartwatch technology to Google. In a press release published on Thursday, the company revealed…

The Instinct is Garmin’s new military GPS watch

Garmin has released its latest GPS watch in the form of Instinct, an apparently military-standard device that’s “built to withstand the toughest environments”. “This…

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