Wearable

El Reg straps on the Huawei Watch 2

Real World Test Sports ready, LTE ready, but still a solution looking for a problem?

Personal Tech26 May 2017 | 51

(You can't) buy one now! The flying car makes its perennial return

Something for the Weekend, Sir? There's a steering wheel in my pants. It's driving me nuts

Bootnotes21 Apr 2017 | 81

Face down in a Shoreditch gutter: Attack of the kickstarting hipster

Something for the Weekend, Sir? The PC doctor will see (in) you now...

Personal Tech17 Mar 2017 | 52

Wearables aren't dead but apps on wearables might be

The only data you want on your wrist describes your pulse

Personal Tech03 Mar 2017 | 17

Artificial intelligence 'will save wearables'!

Can you hearable me?

Personal Tech24 Feb 2017 | 12

Fitbit hit on Pebble kit cost just 20 million quid? Oh s**t!

Wearables giant finally reveals cost of gobbling up and killing off rival hardware

Personal Tech23 Feb 2017 | 35

Forget Tony Stark's Iron Man – exosuits of the future will be spandex

It turns out there are better ways to enhance strength than heavy metal armor

Science25 Jan 2017 | 28

Fitbit throws fit, emits writ for outfit's non-hit, rather sh*t, 'Fitbit' kit

Reseller accused of passing off malfunctioning health bands as refurbished gear

Personal Tech10 Jan 2017 | 15

Fitbit picks up Pebble, throws Pebble as far as it can into the sea

Smartwatch market down by one

Personal Tech07 Dec 2016 | 92

Apple Watch sales go over a cliff: Down 2.8 meellion per quarter in a year

If a wearable does much more than measure your pulse, it hardly has a pulse

Personal Tech06 Dec 2016 | 72

Wearable eats wearable: Fitbit 'to buy Pebble' with a steal of a deal

Smartwatch pioneer looks set to call it a day

Personal Tech01 Dec 2016 | 17

Will Microsoft's nerd goggles soar like an Eagle, or flop like a turkey?

Analysis Hello, HoloLens

Channel12 Oct 2016 | 42

Microsoft disbands Band band – and there'll be no version 3

Redmond snuffs out its only promising wearable

Personal Tech04 Oct 2016 | 52

Punters want heart-throbs, not brains, when thinking wrist-jobs

If Apple updates the Watch today, it's ignoring the wearable market's trend towards dumb

Personal Tech07 Sep 2016 | 16

McDonald's launches wearable then pulls it after kid feels the burn

LED on 'Step-It' Happy Meal fitness tracker scalds child

Bootnotes18 Aug 2016 | 35

The curious case of a wearables cynic and his enduring fat bastardry

Something for the Weekend, Sir? Let’s get physical, physical

Bootnotes12 Aug 2016 | 130

Intel's smartwatches are so hot right now – too hot: Basis Peak recalled for skin burns, blistering

Owners offered refunds before wrist-puters are disabled

Personal Tech03 Aug 2016 | 38

Apple and Android wearables: What iceberg? It’s full steam ahead!

This watch now has even more added computer

Personal Tech17 Jun 2016 | 51

Got a Fitbit? Thought you were achieving your goals? Better read this

UPDATE Photoplethysmography algo error could be nasty for those who target their training

Personal Tech23 May 2016 | 61

Xiaomi takes aim at Apple, Qualcomm

Putting final polish on processor and smartwatch announcements

Personal Tech02 May 2016 | 10

Go to Topshop, make a Bluetooth gizmo, stick it on your dress

Fashion retailer plans Top Pitch competition for wearable tech

Personal Tech27 Apr 2016 | 8

Woz says wearables – even Apple Watch – aren't 'compelling'

'It's an expense that bought me a few extra niceties' but shows Apple can swing and miss

Personal Tech18 Apr 2016 | 95

R&D white coats at HP Inc will make corporate ID into wearable tech

'32,000 years of wearable evolution' – this is what it's come to

Channel29 Mar 2016 | 19

Don't snoop on staff via wearables, says Dutch privacy agency

Permission under pressure isn't permission at all

Legal09 Mar 2016 | 25

Pebble punts out new firmware to watch you as you sleep

Where are the straps?

Personal Tech04 Feb 2016 | 13

Intel aims for PC-style position in drones, robots and wearables

CES 2016 Can't win with PCs... that's clear

Channel13 Jan 2016 | 6

Swiss try to wind up Apple with $25k dumb-watch

H. Moser & Cie poke fun at Sir Jony's precious arm candy

Bootnotes08 Jan 2016 | 82

Outfit throws fit, hits FitBit's hit kit with writ (Apple also involved)

Lab claims tech pair nabbed designs after meetings

Personal Tech05 Jan 2016 | 36

2016 in mobile: Visit a components mall in China... 30 min later, you're a manufacturer

The Reg on the rise of Shenzhen generics, the fall of wearables and other coming trends

Personal Tech02 Jan 2016 | 129

Oz insurer offers Basis breathing-bangle-for-your-data swap

Wrist recorder reads your weight, tells the cloud

On-Prem09 Nov 2015 | 6

Microsoft Band 2 wrist watchers in pay-first-ship-much-later rage

Does twiddling your thumbs count as an exercise?

Personal Tech09 Nov 2015 | 23

Microsoft updates Band semi-smartwatch for fitness fanatics

Now with added barometer and a better battery

Personal Tech06 Oct 2015 | 12

Sparks and recreation: TomTom's stealth wearable success

IFA 2015 Well, it's a success compared with Android Wear, anyway

Personal Tech03 Sep 2015 | 5

Apple watch breathes down Fitbit's neck

Two thirds of flogged smart wearables were Apple Watches

Channel27 Aug 2015 | 9

Neat but narky at times: Pebble Time colour e-paper watch

Review Might lose on style, but wins on longevity and practicality

Personal Tech22 Jul 2015 | 51

Apple Watch is such a flop it's the world's top-selling wearable

Canalys reckons Cupertino shifted 4.2 million wristjobs in a quarter

Personal Tech21 Jul 2015 | 91

Android Wear 5.1: A more enduring wristjob for your pleasure

Review Update breathes new life into Reg man’s strap on

Personal Tech14 Jul 2015 | 42

Strapping strap-on chaps strap in to tap that vat of greenbacks

Fitbit preps IPO to gobble up $730m from investors

On-Prem18 Jun 2015 | 1

Flexible PRAM: Not a bendy baby carriage, but infinitely cooler

Look IOWT, Gromit - it's memory you can wrap round your arm

Storage16 Jun 2015 | 1

INTERNET of BOOBS: Scorching French lass reveals networked bikini

No e-mankini yet in the ranks of IoT clothing, complains nobody

Networks12 Jun 2015 | 70

Strap-on fiddle factor: We poke ten Apple Watch apps

Product Roundup Extracting the most value from a pretty expensive wristjob

Applications01 Jun 2015 | 18

Apple: Relax, fanbois! We never meant to read your heart rate during wild wrist action

Be still, my beating ...

Networks31 May 2015 | 31

Wearable fitness tech: Exercising your self-motivation skills

Breaking Fad Do health trackers really keep you in good shape?

Personal Tech29 May 2015 | 30

And then the Google lad says: Of course you can use Android Wear without a smartphone

Google I/O Take that, Apple! Now they'll fly off the shelves

SaaS29 May 2015 | 22

It's the Internet of Feet: Lenovo shows smart shoes, projector keyboard phone

Also bizarre peepshow watch

SaaS28 May 2015 | 32

Health-snoop bangle vendor Fitbit hit with Jawbone sueball

The law is an ass? Jawbone of an ass? Ever just had too much material?

Networks28 May 2015 | 4

Microsoft HoloLens or Hollow Lens? El Reg stares down cyber-specs' code

Build 2015 Our man spends 90 mins with headwear

Software01 May 2015 | 31

Intel's wristjob envy sparks reorg

Palm's Bell bumped sideways, says WSJ

Channel29 Apr 2015 | 3

Acer introduces a REVOLUTION in tablet tech: The PENCIL

Pics Affordable fondleslabs, mobes 'n' wearables for the masses

On-Prem28 Apr 2015 | 17

Boffins laser print flexible transistors

If you can't stand the heat, turn down the temperature

Science23 Apr 2015 | 10

Health apps and wearables make you nervous, not fit, say boffins

Humanity is wasting its time on monitoring life rather than living

Science15 Apr 2015 | 44

Seriously, stop claiming your two-buck photo app can detect cancer

FTC settles out of court with melanoma-spotting software

Applications13 Apr 2015 | 8

Apple Watch: We ROUNDUP the ROUNDUPS. Yes, Roundup-squared

Four things ye must know of the fruity stroker bracelet

Personal Tech09 Apr 2015 | 49

Screw YOU, Apple – Netflix teases world+dog with its own 'coming soon' SMARTWATCH

Video It's literally all in the wrist

Networks08 Apr 2015 | 11

Wearables market action is all in the wrist says market-scryer IDC

Tech specs aren't going to make it and the wearables market is smaller than PCs

Channel31 Mar 2015 | 7

Just WALK IN and buy an Apple Watch. Are you mad?

Follow these few simple steps, and wait a while

On-Prem30 Mar 2015 | 47