Category: Wearables
Fitbit’s Fitness Surge fitness watch can now track outdoor cycling
Want to monitor your cycling performance? Fitbit Surge users can now track their outdoor bike rides including distance travelled, duration, average speed, heart rate and calories burned. And if you want more detail, stats automatically sync wirelessly to the Fitbit app dashboard to review routes, speed and elevation with more information. A fitness watch, Fitness…
You can now customise your Moto 360 smartwatch to suit you
Motorola's Moto Maker online customising service has been around for a while where phones are concerned, but the Lenovo-owned company has just introduced it for their Moto 360 watch, too. That means you can build your own smartwatch, choosing from 3 case finishes, 9 bands and 11 different watch faces (that's 297 different combinations) to…
Disco Dog is an LED vest that will make your dog sparkle (and alert others if it gets lost)
Here’s a new Kickstarter campaign for a product aimed at helping your dog if he or she gets lost – and making sure they look like a ‘70s icon in the meantime. Aptly called Disco Dog, it’s an LED- studded vest for dogs of all sizes that will light up your life. (Does using a…
You can pre-order the Microsoft Band fitness tracker now
After being available in the US for a while, the Microsoft Band is now about to hit the UK. It’s a fitness wearable that can measure your heart rate, sleep quality, number of steps taken, and calories burned. Connecting it to the accompanying app lets you see all this health info in detail. You can…
Emvio is a new smart watch to reduce stress
There's a new smart watch in town that if all goes well, will be available soon. Nope, this isn't another post about the Apple Watch: you won’t be texting or drawing pictures on the Emvio. Instead, it’s focused on stress prevention, and the company behind it is looking for a little help to bring it…
Volvorii Timeless is the smart shoe that changes with your clothes (or mood)
A new smart shoe called Volvorii Timeless can be customised via app so that you never need to clash (or buy another pair of shoes you only wear a couple of times) ever again. They're not a reality quite yet – Chip Chick spotted them on Indiegogo, so the makers are still trying to raise…
Why the Apple Watch is just another way Apple turns its back on new customers
Like many people yesterday, we were forced into downloading Safari to stream the Apple Watch event. There's no technical reason for this, other browsers are equally (more?) capable of livestreaming content. It's purely a power play by Apple, a way of forcing you to use their products. As always, endless people tweeted that they were…
Tweets about the Apple event were down 85% on last year
It might have felt like everyone was talking about the Apple Watch yesterday, but figures from Amobee Brand Intelligence show that people were a whole lot less engaged with this launch than their last press conference on September the 9th. Here are the stats: During the 1.5 hour presentation, there were 388,710 tweets about Apple. The most…
8 beautiful things that cost less than the rose gold Apple Watch
We're sure we weren't alone in being absolutely entranced by the 18 karat rose gold Apple Watch at the launch event yesterday: Sadly, Apple being Apple, even the rubber-strapped edition of the rose gold Apple Watch is a wince-making £8,000, which puts it just a teensy-tiny bit outside most of our reach. But not to worry, because…
“Holy moly, I’m in Portal!” – hands on with the HTC Vive virtual reality headset #MWC15
HTC's announcement of a virtual reality headset, created in partnership with world-leading games company Valve (Half Life, Portal, Steam...), took Mobile World Congress entirely by surprise on Sunday. We were all feeling pretty clever, thinking we'd already seen everything they had to show (since most of the HTC One M9 material leaked before the launch),…
