Lycos has an announcement to make in wearables: ring, band, health sensors? Screenshot by Scott Stein/CNET Remember Lycos? They had a search engine back in the days when Bill Clinton was president. The website’s still alive: it’s a hub of various Web and entertainment news. And now, Lycos aims to be yet another company diving …

Scott Stein/CNET My 6-year old son tried on the folded cardboard pair of goggles as I sat next to him on the sofa. My iPhone 6 Plus was in it, running Google’s Cardboard app, the company’s virtual-reality (VR) software long available on Android and just released on iOS. I loaded a panorama of the Museum of Natural History — his …

Now playing: Watch this: Google ATAP: Your next wearable could be your shirt 1:14 What, exactly, was a piece of interactive fabric doing at Google’s I/O developers conference? Good question. I don’t have a clear answer yet, but I did turn off lights, control music and make shapes dance on a monitor by stroking my fingers over a little square …

Google Cardboard: cheap and easy…and ready to grow. CNET Virtual and augmented reality have been sprouting up everywhere in 2015, but Google’s had its hands in VR and AR since last year’s Google I/O developer’s conference. This year it could be poised to do even more. Virtual-reality devices, like the Oculus headset, close us up into the a separate world, …

Sarah Tew/CNET It’s been almost one year since Android Wear debuted on several mostly forgettable smartwatches. So where are we now? We now have half a dozen or so Android Wear watches, a lot of apps, and few people who seem compelled to actually buy one. Google’s annual developers conference, I/O, is scheduled to kick off on Thursday, May 28, …

Sarah Tew/CNET It’s extremely early days for the Apple Watch, and there are already 3,000 plus apps on the App Store. These apps span nearly every territory and category, and many big-name brands. It’s an amazing launch effort for a new smartwatch. And yet, many of these apps that I’ve tried (60 or so, admittedly, not 3,000) have a common …

Now playing: Watch this: How to manage your apps on the Apple Watch 2:19 Apps! The Apple Watch has quite a few: over 3,000 already, and many more to come. What do they do? How do they work? And how do you put them (or, take them off) your Apple Watch? Read up, I’ll tell you. Apple Watch third-party apps: …

Now playing: Watch this: How to talk, text and emoji like Dick Tracy on your Apple… 3:16 The Apple Watch handles a lot of communications. You can make phone calls, you can send and receive texts, and yes, you can even doodle or send your heartbeat. Apple Watch’s communication skills have their advantages, but also some limits. Here’s how to …

Now playing: Watch this: How to navigate the Apple Watch in 10 helpful moves 3:00 The Apple Watch is a completely new product for Apple: not just because it’s a smartwatch, but because nearly everything it does feels and works a little differently than the iPhone, iPad or Mac. There’s a touchscreen, but it doesn’t have pinch-to-zoom: it’s pressure-sensitive instead. …

Now playing: Watch this: All the things Apple Watch can do without an iPhone nearby 1:33 The Apple Watch is, first and foremost, an iPhone accessory. It might be even more than that eventually, a truly independent gadget, but a vast majority of its current core functions — making calls, sending messages, getting information, even playing any third-party games — …