Wearable

HP Inc to build future products atop grave of flopped 'AI pin'

Tech and people behind IoT brooch that reviewers instantly hated will one day pep up printers

Personal Tech19 Feb 2025 | 54

Fitbit pays Uncle Sam $12M to sprint away from claims of burning-hot smartwatches

Your workout warm-up instructions didn't say anything about setting wrists on fire – allegedly!

Personal Tech24 Jan 2025 | 11

Apple sued for using dangerous 'forever chemicals' in Watch bands

Markets smartwatches as health helpers even as they expose some owners to PFAS

Personal Tech22 Jan 2025 | 22

New Orleans attacker used Meta smart glasses to plan New Year's Day massacre

But Jabbar did not live stream his actions on Jan 1, FBI confirmed

Personal Tech06 Jan 2025 | 13

As the Apple Watch turns 10, disabled users demand real accessibility

Opinion Forget wrist acrobatics, we need smarter wake word detection and on-device voice recognition

Personal Tech28 Aug 2024 | 10

Tiny solid-state battery promises to pack a punch in pocket gadgets

TDK tech envisioned as successor to button cells – if it works as promised

Science18 Jun 2024 | 72

India buys a third of the world's wearable devices

Asia In Brief PLUS: Australian Parliament calls for Assange release; Japan's H3 rocket soars; LINE leak worsens

Personal Tech18 Feb 2024 | 2

Scientists don thinking caps in wearable tech breakthrough

Building semiconductors into fabrics often hits a snag, which a new fiber pulling technique seeks to avoid

Science01 Feb 2024 | 14

Biden's facing the clock to veto Apple Watch import ban after ITC patent ruling

I'll huff and I'll puff and Masimo will blow your sales down

Personal Tech27 Oct 2023 | 34

Google and Qualcomm to bring RISC-V to the wrist in next-gen wearable platform

Wear OS is basically Android, so this effort may do some heavy lifting to evade Arm SoCs in future phones

Personal Tech18 Oct 2023 | 3

$17k solid gold Apple Watch goes from Beyoncé's wrist to the obsolete list

You can't bling out the inevitable

Personal Tech03 Oct 2023 | 63

Okay, SMART ePANTS, you tell us how to create network-connected textiles

Soldiers, first responders may eventually be able to phone home from their clothes

Science09 Sep 2023 | 31

China's best selling smartwatch offers surveillance-as-a-service … for kids

Asia In Brief ALSO: Indian space agency completes OneWeb constellation; Singapore warns on AI weapons; AUKUS tech pact advances

Defense Tech Week26 Mar 2023 | 6

The clock is ticking on a possible US import ban for Apple Watch

What's the time? It's time to go to court to see if the iGiant crushed a rival's heart-watching apps

Personal Tech23 Feb 2023 | 21

Punch-drunk Apple Watch called 15 cops to a boxing workout when it heard 'shots'

Hey Siri, did you know know that swatting is a bug, not a feature?

Offbeat19 Jan 2023 | 68

Huawei teases bonkers gadget combo

A watch that flips open to reveal tiny earbuds: what could possibly go wrong?

Personal Tech02 Dec 2022 | 30

Google reveals Pixel 7 phones with 1.7 Stadias of security fixes promised

This and wearables fortified with machine learning to serve you, human

Personal Tech06 Oct 2022 | 17

Wearables sales slacken as the novelty wears off

In this economy, who has $800 to spend on a watch?

Personal Tech21 Sep 2022 | 25

Lenovo launches face-mounted monitor

Not worthy of the name 'smart glasses' and not sold outside China until 2023

Personal Tech02 Sep 2022 | 27

Alibaba launches collaboration suite for smart glasses

DingTalk goes into 'extended reality'

Personal Tech06 May 2022 | 5

Indian PC market sets all-time records as Q3 shipments top 2019 total

Wearables also soared, with Apple pushed out of the charts by local brands like Fire-Boltt

Personal Tech19 Nov 2021 |

Sweat-sipping wearable aims to charge electronics without couch potatoes lifting a finger

What's wrong with plugging it in?

Science14 Jul 2021 | 12

Xiaomi my heart is still beating: Reg hack takes Chinese giant's new fitness band for a spin

Review Mi Smart Band 6 needs to be slicker, bigger, and brighter to really get you faster and fitter

Personal Tech02 Jul 2021 | 23

Google and Samsung merge their wearable OSes, tease Fitbit baked into the combo

Who could possibly have predicted that developers would shun two small ecosystems?

Personal Tech19 May 2021 | 10

The stench of progress: Sweat may power your personal tech in the not-so-distant future

Gross? Maybe, but at least your Fitbit is still working

Science12 Mar 2021 | 13

Sweet! Your boss is going to get you a plush new headset, says Gartner as wearable spending to soar almost 20%

Analysts predict market to grow to $81.5bn from $68.9bn in 2021

Personal Tech12 Jan 2021 | 4

Apple Watch Series 6 isn't a step back for repairability but in its own way that's a leap forward

Fitness fans get more battery capacity in thinner case, and replacing it is doable for the brave

Personal Tech22 Sep 2020 | 12

That long-awaited, super-hyped Apple launch: Watches, iPads... and one more thing. Oh, actually that's it

OK, fine. Blood-oxygen level monitoring, hexa-core 5nm Arm processors, TV packages...

Personal Tech15 Sep 2020 | 95

Bluetooth SIG strives to make wearables work as COVID-19 contact-trackers

Don’t rush out to buy hardware, this is months from deployment

Personal Tech19 Aug 2020 | 7

Singapore to give all incoming travelers wearable tracking device

Bluetooth and GPS widget will be used to enforce home COVID quarantine

Science04 Aug 2020 | 15

If you're on invite-only tech-testing scheme, take care with Amazon's Alexa-powered answer to Google's Glass

iFixit reveals repair won't be trivial

Science03 Aug 2020 | 24

Folk sure like to stick electric toothbrush heads in their ears: True wireless stereo sales buck coronavirus trends

Shipments soared 86% in Q1, 200 million expected to be shifted this year

Personal Tech22 Jun 2020 | 42

Smartwatches win the consumer tech sector for Q1 2020 as locked-down folk take up fight against corona-carbs

Shipments up 12%, says Canalys

Personal Tech18 Jun 2020 | 11

Keep it clean you lot: Samsung's created a hand-washing app for its wearables

Complete with nagware and wash-tracking features

Personal Tech04 Jun 2020 | 6

Smartphones, PCs, and now wearables... Coronavirus wrecks another corner of tech

17% growth pre-pandemic now a measly 5%

Personal Tech03 Jun 2020 | 2

COVID-19 sparks new wearables to push the pandemic away

Don’t stand so close to me as-a-service, with added blockchain

Personal Tech21 May 2020 | 20

We really doing this again? Rumour has it that Apple is nearly finished developing augmented-reality glasses

Comment iGiant would have to show it has learned from Google's failures

Science20 May 2020 | 33

Fitbit unfurls last new wearable before it's gobbled by Google, right on time for global pandemic lockdown

Track your jogs around the block – while those are still allowed

Personal Tech02 Apr 2020 | 28

Hong Kong makes wearable trackers mandatory for new arrivals, checks in with ‘surprise calls’ too

Government CIO promises they don’t record location, just change of location

Security19 Mar 2020 | 39

Sennheiser Momentum True Wireless 2 earbuds: They're good – though for close to £300, they really should be

Hands on Not headphones. Earbuds

Personal Tech13 Mar 2020 | 43

Watch this space: Chinese mobe flinger OPPO flexes first shot at the wearables market

With eSIM tech for the Dick Tracy in your life

Personal Tech06 Mar 2020 | 10

Best buds? Apple must be fuming: Samsung's wireless earphones boast 11 hours of listening on a single charge

That's enough time for all Nickelback's albums in one sitting!

Personal Tech13 Feb 2020 | 59

Xiaomi what's inside: Wow, teardown nerds find debut smartwatch isn't actually a solder-and-resin nightmare

If you can open the damn thing, that is

Personal Tech06 Feb 2020 | 25

Lobes carry the load, says IDC: 'Hearables' sector accounts for half of all tech clobber sold

Yep that's our old friend Earworn Wearables by another name

Personal Tech11 Dec 2019 | 5

Samsung taking its sweet time delivering Galaxy watches from phone bundle bungle

Chaebol blames 'popularity' for 'slight delay' of 2.5 months

Personal Tech22 Nov 2019 | 10

'Earworn Wearables' will save the day (wireless earbuds, but cool name for your D&D halfling)

The hero that drives 62% uptick in wearables to *squints* $52bn, according to Gartner

Science30 Oct 2019 | 50

We asked for your Fitbit horror stories and, oh wow, did you deliver: Readers sync their teeth into 'junk' gizmos

'This is the last Fitbit I will buy'

Personal Tech17 Sep 2019 | 76

Apple cracks, straps on free repair service for defective Watches

Got a Series 2 or 3 in aluminium with a borked screen? Things might be looking up for you

Personal Tech02 Sep 2019 | 10

It's all in the wrist: Your fitness tracker could be as much about data warfare as your welfare

Column Tick, tick, boom?

Personal Tech19 Jun 2019 | 101

European Commission orders mass recall of creepy, leaky child-tracking smartwatch

Hackers can talk to and locate the wearer, warns notice

Security04 Feb 2019 | 64

Low-power chips are secret sauce behind long-life wearables

CES 2019 Fancy that – dumb is the new smart

Personal Tech07 Jan 2019 | 34

For wearable analysts, the glass is always half full

IDC looks at stagnant US market ... and sees only joy

Personal Tech05 Dec 2018 | 3

Gartner to wearables biz: Through failure comes success!

Crystal-ball gazer claims market will treble in size in next three years

Personal Tech29 Nov 2018 | 24

Apple replaces boot-loop watchOS edition with unconnected complications edition

QA? We've heard of it

Personal Tech06 Nov 2018 | 34

5.1 update sends Apple's Watch 4 bling spinning into an Infinite Loop of reboot cycles

We'll just take this one away

Personal Tech01 Nov 2018 | 35

Huawei's Watch GT snubs Google for homegrown OS

Behold, a new Chinese platform?

Personal Tech16 Oct 2018 | 39