If you think diamond rings are a bit excessive but still savor shiny stones, how about a diamond-studded watch? TAG Heuer added 589 baguette-size diamonds — that’s 23.35 carats — to its latest smartwatch, which it showed off at this week’s Salon International de la Haute Horlogerie Geneve. Diamonds aren’t cheap, and neither is this watch: …
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It’s already hard to keep track of how many Android Wear-powered smartwatches exist in the world. Fossil Group makes many of them: Misfit, Fossil, Diesel, Michael Kors, Emporio Armani and others. Kate Spade and Skagen now join the fold, too. Continuing Android Wear’s push to fashion watch brands last year, these models seem to promise extra style over new function. …
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What started as a spin-off project from Samsung’s experimental C-Lab arm is now a fully fledged, fully funded product that makes you look like a secret agent when you answer your phone. The smart strap Korea-based Innomdle Lab connects to your phone via Bluetooth and allows you to listen to phone calls conducted through the tip of your finger into …
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Samsung makes fantastic looking watches but it doesn’t always give them the best tools for success. So is Samsung Gear Sport a typical Samsung watch? I’ve been wearing Samsung’s newest Gear watch for about a week, across an iPhone 8 Plus and a Samsung Galaxy Note 8. The Gear Sport isn’t the super-powered mega-watch that last year’s cellular-enabled S3 was. Instead …
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Back in 2013, I was boarding a New Jersey Transit train with a piece of metal and plastic on my head. Google Glass ended up being a symbol of many things — the technology industry’s cavalier invasions of privacy, or its increasing elitism — but its promise of a cyborg future didn’t ever really arrive. More from Google’s event Google …
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Time has run out for Verizon‘s Wear24 smartwatch after just four months. Verizon Wireless began selling the 4G LTE-connected Wear24 in May for $300. The smartwatch ran Google’s Android Wear 2 software and featured a 1.4-inch AMOLED display and a 450mAh battery with wireless charging. Apparently that battery power wasn’t enough to keep Verizon charged about the Wear24 and the …
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Apple’s September 12 event will undoubtedly be dominated by the iPhone. But let’s not forget: a new Apple TV and new Apple Watch are widely expected to be unveiled, too. While smartwatches seem to have gone into a slumber lately, many companies have suddenly gotten back in the game: Fitbit has a new fitness smartwatch. Garmin’s got one, too. Samsung’s …
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Earlier this month, I was sitting in a conventional conference room in Google’s New York office, complete with the standard movable whiteboard, an oblong gray table, a conference phone and an intercom system. This, however, was not the standard product briefing. Roughly two dozen smartwatches sat on the table, bearing the names of trendy brands such as Tag Heuer and …
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We might finally know one reason why Fitbit purchased the Pebble watch company for $23 million last year: Apps. Fitbit’s next watch is going to launch with its own app platform that would rival those found on the Apple Watch and Android Wear watches, Fitbit CEO James Park said to The Verge. Park said that upon the watch’s launch, Fitbit …
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I love the Overcast app. It’s the best podcast app I’ve used on the iPhone, and it’s better than Apple‘s Podcasts app. And a few days ago, Overcast added a really fascinating feature for Apple Watch owners: it stores podcasts onto the Apple Watch to listen to away from the iPhone. Turning the Apple Watch into a little podcast repository …
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