The Apple Watch has been around for a good long while now. It was unveiled almost exactly two years ago, and has been on sale since April 2015. Since then it’s been finding its way onto a lot of wrists and frustrating a lot of people at the same time. Those frustrations — and declining …

Some of the features shown off on Pebble’s next generation of smartwatches are coming to older Pebbles first. The Pebble 2 is expected this September, but in advance of that comes a new software update that adds a lot to existing watches. Glances, and ways of compacting more information on that tiny screen, aim to make the Pebble feel a …

Now playing: Watch this: Apple likely to unveil new iPhones on September 7 1:48 Enlarge Image Apple The next iPhone will probably be revealed to the world on September 7. And maybe a watch, too. Apple made it official today, confirming the previously rumored date of the first Wednesday in September. The venue is once again at Bill Graham Civic …

Fitbit, the number one fitness tracker brand, just unveiled a couple of new fitness trackers — and some big updates to an older one. The company, which already released the watch-like Fitbit Blaze and style-targeted Fitbit Alta earlier this year, is adding the Fitbit Charge 2 and Flex 2 trackers to its lineup. Now playing: Watch this: See Fitbit’s new …

Last week, McDonald’s stopped selling a fitness tracker toy, the Step-It, that it was packaging with its Happy Meals in the US and Canada. Today, the tracker has been recalled. The Step-It is a plastic snap-on band in two designs: one with a watchlike step-count display (see above), and one that lit up when moving. According to the Consumer Product …

Niantic’s latest update to the summer’s greatest hit, Pokemon Go, adds a feature that could be good for gym battles: free Pokemon appraisals. It’s hard to figure out which Pokemon is best at doing certain things. Actually, I never even battle in Pokemon Go. I just collect more Pokemon. But the new feature in version 0.35.0 for Android and 1.5.0 …

Now playing: Watch this: New features in Android Nougat 1:14 Surprise! It’s Nougat Monday. Google’s newest version of Android OS 7.0, also known as Nougat, arrives in its first official form today. Nougat, which many people have been playing with in a public beta since May, adds a number of new features to Android. Multi-window multitasking, extra battery-saving modes, baked-in …

Now playing: Watch this: McDonald’s discontinued fitness tracker tested: Not as… 1:18 McDonald’s put a fitness tracker in its Happy Meal. And then it was gone. You could get one, as of yesterday. I got mine from McDonald’s at the corner of 28th and Park. Wrist-worn, no less. It’s the first tracker I’ve used that included lunch. Today, I went …

The Intel-powered Daqri smart helmet is one of several players in the still-brewing AR-helmet landscape. The Daqri smart helmet (pronounced like the vacation nectar) was unveiled in January along with Intel, part of a dedicated push towards industrial use cases for augmented reality. The Daqri helmet will arrive in a developer edition this fall, but in the meantime the research …

“Whip it!” I flicked Bop-It in the air. “Selfie it!” Is that…raise it up like a camera? The buzzer blares. I failed. Bop-It used to be simple: three simple moves, three things to do. Bop, Twist, Pull. No more. The new Bop-It, coming this fall, looks exactly the same but adds an accelerometer. Now it understands gestures. And those get …