Sarah Tew/CNET Will your Nike FuelBand soon be a collector’s item? Nike, which expanded its focus from sportswear to technology with its wrist-worn FuelBand fitness tracker two years ago, has held serious discussions about exiting the market for wearable hardware, a person familiar with the matter told CNET. Nike currently sells its flagship device, the …

Andrew Hoyle/CNET Smartphone theft, in the words of lawmakers grappling with the crime, has reached “epidemic” levels. In the last few years, the oftentimes violent act has been quickly eclipsing all other forms of robbery in the US thanks to the lucrative secondhand market for stolen smartphones. That’s precisely why carriers Verizon and US Cellular have teamed up with Samsung …

It took only 90 minutes for Moov, makers of a watch-like fitness wearable, to hit its crowdfunding goal of $40,000. Two weeks have passed since then, and Moov is already to date the most successful crowdfunding fitness campaign — of which there are many, on Kickstarter and Indiegogo, attempting to serve up a better Jawnone or Fitbit or Nike FuelBand …

If you’ve ever wondered what it would be like for the Internet to fold in on itself, resulting in a massive fringe culture supernova bursting with the luminosity of a million memes feasting on one another, then look no more. Bird Jesus, a Twitch Plays Pokemon-themed Flappy Bird clone for iOS and Android, is the answer to our prayers, a …

The complaints with wearable fitness trackers are routinely uniform. If a device is slim and sleek, it tends not to provide very useful data beyond counting steps and telling you when you rolled around in your sleep. If it’s powerful, on the other hand, it’s typically bulky and designed at the expense of looking like something you’d actually want to …

Samsung released its Galaxy Gear smartwatch just five months ago, and now it’s intent on shelving that unit for not one, but two new models: the Gear 2 and Gear 2 Neo. Alongside the refreshed smartwatch lineup is the Gear Fit, a fitness band with a 1.84-inch full-color screen that rounds out Samsung’s continually aggressive and fast-moving push into wearables. …

The Fitbit Force health tracker — a slim rubber wristband that counts steps and monitors one’s sleep — is meant to be worn at all hours of the day, unless you’re one of the select users that have begun reporting mild to semi-severe skin irritation including rashes, itchy and dry patches, and even blisters. Now, after weeks of building momentum, …

When the smartphone phenomenon Flappy Bird took off not so long ago — and before it morphed into something uncontrollable and became its own hard-to-swallow lesson for the game industry — it was as if everyone you’d ever known had suddenly stumbled on mobile gaming’s most brilliantly manufactured drug. Facebook and Instragram were awash in high score screenshots and admissions of addiction-fueled …

The image of the emblematic smartphone game has not been held in high regard of late. Certainly not with titles like Flappy Bird seemingly taking over the world, earning $50,000 a day off our meaningless compulsions and further cementing the well of condescension “hardcore” gamers have for the mobile platform and its capacity. That’s where Threes comes in. Released Wednesday …

Flappy Bird, the newest and most savagely addicting smartphone game to have taken the mobile market by storm, is earning $50,000 in ad revenue each day, Vietnamese developer Dong Nguyen revealed Wednesday in an interview with The Verge. Related stories: 8 Standout Games From PAX West 2022 New Pokemon Scarlet and Violet Trailer Shows Off Gym Battles, Team Star and …