Wearable

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

Stock trader gets two years in prison for pumping up with Fitbit

Using wearable to get wrong kind of gains get Big House visit

On-Prem12 Mar 2018 | 19

Wearables are now a two-horse race and Google lost very badly

Analysis It's a massacre on the wrist

Personal Tech01 Mar 2018 | 109

US Pentagon scrambles after Strava base leaks. Here's a summary of the new rules: 'Secure that s***, Hudson!'

What a Strava-palava

Personal Tech29 Jan 2018 | 34

Look on the bright side, Pebble fans. At least your gizmo will work long enough for you to get beach body ready

Support plug will now be pulled in June

Personal Tech24 Jan 2018 | 45

Fitbit health alert: You appear to be bleeding

Sales fall, losses grow, but watch looks OK

On-Prem02 Nov 2017 | 17

Welcome to the future: Bluetooth jackets you can only wash 10 times. Gee, thanks, Google

Phone-controlling Levi's soft-wear for, presumably, non-sweaty nerds

Edge + IoT25 Sep 2017 | 63