Wearable technology

Samsung Gear Circle review: a runner’s delight, a fashionista’s fright

If you’ve ever connected earphones to your office laptop or desktop, you probably know all to well the resultant carnage when you accidentally get…

Hitting the fairway: golf readies itself for the wearable tech revolution

Technology, which is constantly changing, also changes each industry it touches. And it’s currently got its finger on the world of sports, altering the…

TomTom Runner Cardio review: it’s all in the wrist

The TomTom Runner Cardio came to me at exactly the wrong time. You see, I usually run around four times a week, with a…

3 key features that will help wearables reach more consumers

If wearables are going to take off (like the Withings Activité Pop pictured above), they have to be more than just miniature smartphones that…

Sony Smart Tennis Sensor is a wearable for the budding Wimbledon star

Sony has taken a break from making smartphone camera sensors and consoles this week to release the Sony Smart Tennis Sensor in Australia, to…

Sony SmartBand SWR10 review: easy to lose, easy to forget

The fitness craze — it’s a thing that’s not going anywhere anytime soon. Just like the selfie movement and the LOLcats phenomenon before it,…

Sony’s SmartEyeglass Google Glass competitor is now available for pre-order

Judging by the number of down votes received on its YouTube ad, Sony‘s attempt at filling that awkward void left by the lack of…

Fin thumb ring brings gesture control to the palm of your hand

Fin is a tiny device that you can wear on your thumb as a ring, which turns your hand into a numeric keypad and…

Apple hires sleep expert, might build iWatch to monitor fitness and vital signs

We probably won’t see the iWatch anytime soon but when we do, it’s gonna rock our socks off. If saucy speculation is anything to…

Sensory Fiction: a wearable book that lets you ‘feel’ the characters’ emotions

Thought that books were dead, and that eReaders and smart devices were finally taking over? Hopefully this might convince you otherwise. By mixing technology…

Wearable tech holds no interest for China’s hardware pirates

Truth is stranger than fiction. China’s piracy industry has no interest in creating knock-off wearable tech such as the Galaxy Gear or the Pebble,…

5 fitness gadgets you’ll want in 2014

A new year is often the period where guilt takes hold, reminding you of the over-indulgence you wantonly participated in over the festive season….

Virtually here: how Oculus Rift and Sony plan to conquer VR [CES2014]

Virtual reality is hilarious. I remember using it as a youth back in 1997 at a gaming trade show and it was awesome. Obviously,…

Neptune Pine: smartwatch or smartphone? [CES2014]

Is it all about wearables this year at CES 2014? And so, down at the so-called Wrist Revolution section at CES, the Neptune Pine smartwatch shows its…

Next Galaxy Gear ‘an evolution’, S5 could have iris-scanning to rival TouchID

The release of Samsung’s Galaxy Gear smartwatch was underwhelming to say the least, but that’s not stopping the company from hedging its bets on…

5 reasons smartwatches aren’t a fad

With the lackluster press reaction to the Samsung Galaxy Gear smartwatch, you may be thinking the smartwatch fad is over before it’s even begun….

It’s time for a change as revamped Pebble goes Steel [CES2014]

Last year this time, people were blown away by the quirky looking e-paper watch, Pebble, which is compatible with iOS and Android devices. Pebble…

Put down the cookie: iFit Active band sees and tracks all [CES2014]

CES 2014 seems to be the launchpad for a bunch of fitness apps and hardware. Take the newly announced and originally named iFit Active…

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