Browsing: Wearables

Smart glasses are making unwanted surveillance all too easy, but you’re far from powerless against this covert tech.

Screenless trackers are all the rage right now, even though they’ve existed for decades. For instance, Whoop launched its first tracker in 2015, launching as among the first, if not the first of the category. In March, Whoop raised $575 million, garnering itself a $10 billion valuation, signaling increased interest in the space. But Whoop is now…

Meta gives you some control over what your glasses collect and store. You just have to know where to look.

A slew of AI-powered gadgets on the market aims to integrate artificial intelligence into our daily lives like never before.

AI glasses have been growing in popularity for a few years now, and while they offer new possibilities, like an always-available AI assistant or camera, one often-overlooked feature is the open-ear speakers. 

Apple Watches do a lot more than tell the time, granting their wearers many of the iPhone’s perks in addition to a suite of biometric data. However, they also possess an assortment of extra traits with more niche, but valuable, use-cases. One of these underrated Apple Watch features is Theater Mode, which is perfect for…

We buy fitness bands and activity trackers to keep tabs on our exercise, but it is easy to forget to start tracking or switch modes when moving between different activities. For Fitbit and Pixel Watch users, that could soon become a lot less annoying, as Google is rolling out a major upgrade to automatic activity…

Ambient AI is having a moment. Amazon launched a new wrist-worn device with Bee; a former Plaud exec launched ambient apps through a startup called Ambi, which aims to also build its own hardware; and Apple launched Voice Intelligence features during its iPhone launch in September. Now, a company called Nirva is betting on a…

Google’s latest tracker is a middle ground between a simple tracker and full smartwatch.

Smart ring company Oura announced that it is adding two new fitness features. First is Cardio Effort, an assessment of how much strain the wearer has put on their body during activity. The personalized metric will offer five ranges — light, fair, maintaining, building and reaching — that offer a gauge of how the week’s…