Wearable

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 | 69

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

Watch Series 4: What price 'freedom'? About as much as you'd expect from an Apple product

Review A stellar improvement all round – except for Siri

Personal Tech08 Oct 2018 | 45

Vodafone and EE ship Apple's Watch 4, but not without LTE teething issues

Which gets you the best deal? We did the arithmetic

Personal Tech24 Sep 2018 | 7

Qualcomm's tardy chip upgrade leaves the Great Wearables Reveal to jokers and clowns

IFA The Android comeback must wait a little longer

Personal Tech04 Sep 2018 | 9

Snap code snatched, Pentagon bans bands, pacemakers cracked, etc

Roundup New zero-day vendor opens up shop, and more in infosec this week

Security11 Aug 2018 | 15

Wearable hybrids prove the bloated smartwatch is one of Silly Valley's biggest mistakes

Analysis When dumb is usually smart enough

Personal Tech18 Jul 2018 | 141

Google-free Android kit tipped to sell buckets

China, you see, has its own chocolate factories

Software19 Jun 2018 | 58

watchOS 5 hints at new Apple wearables and life beyond the Watch

Analysis The web on your wrist... and elsewhere

Personal Tech07 Jun 2018 | 22

The great wearables myth busted: Apps never, ever mattered

Analysis Garmin grabs No.2 smartwatch spot

Personal Tech25 May 2018 | 69

Meet Asteroid, a drop-in Linux upgrade for your unloved smartwatch

Hickory dickory Docker, the containers ran on the clock... er

OSes17 May 2018 | 27

Fitness band-it Garmin adds mobe bank Starling to bonk-to-pay fold

Showing Google and Samsung how it's done

Personal Tech10 May 2018 | 7

And lo, Qualcomm hath declared that a new chip for wearables is coming

Too little, too late?

Personal Tech09 May 2018 | 3

Holy sweat! Wearables have THREE attack surfaces

Black Hat Asia The device, the app and the cloud, and your development lifecycle isn’t fit enough to catch up

Security22 Mar 2018 | 3

One in three Android Wear owners also uses ... an iPhone

LogoWatch Which may be why Google’s changed the name to ‘Wear OS’

Personal Tech16 Mar 2018 | 23

Look! Fitbit's made a watch that doesn't suck!

Less weird, less clunky, and a four day+ battery life

Personal Tech13 Mar 2018 | 32