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Recon Jet is Google Glass for athletes and professionals, now available for...
Google Glass is for walking around and getting directions to a cafe with perfect espresso. Recon Jet is for kicking your performance into the ultimate high gear and — yes — even saving lives. The...
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Apple iWatch near launch? Apple trademarks ‘iWatch’ in Mexico, Taiwan,...
Earlier this month, Apple registered a trademark for “iWatch” in Russia. Today, the company has trademark registration filings in at least four more countries, including Taiwan and Mexico. It’s the...
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GadgetBeat: Smartphones, wearables, and beyond — we just keep getting closer...
This story is part of a series exploring the convergence of design, technology, and commerce in the mobile industry. Find out more at MobileBeat 2013, July 9-10 in San Francisco. Read the full series...
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Gesture-controlled wearable Myo now open for hacking
Myo, a gesture-controlled armband, has just been opened up to third-party developers. Devs are getting APIs for the device, and a few who preorder now will also access to pre-production devices. Myo...
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GlassUp isn’t a copy of Google Glass … and just might be better
Once Venice was the capital of global glass-making. Now, wearable computing pioneer and GlassUp CEO Francesco Giartosio is hoping that lightning will strike twice. Two years ago Giartosio started an...
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Nike’s new Fuelband: Just as stylish, but with more sports-specific smarts
Dec. 4 - 5, 2013 Redwood City, CA Tickets on Sale Now NEW YORK CITY — Nike announced its latest FuelBand in a way that only Nike can — with dance music, Olympic athletes, and even Foursquare CEO...
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Studio 9+ accelerator backs OneFold to grab data on how we use mobile devices...
Source: Devindra Hardawar/VentureBeatWearable devices like the FitBit and Google Glass have fascinated consumers, but as they become more popular, they become more and more interesting to businesses,...
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Google developing SDK to make Android the standard for wearables
Image Credit: Dylan Tweney/VentureBeatGoogle wants to make it easier for lots of wearables to run on the Android operating system. In about two weeks, the tech giant will release an Android...
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Britain’s David Cameron announces more funding for Internet of things research
Image Credit: Department for Business, Innovation and Skills/FlickrThe Internet of things — sensor-filled devices that connect to the web — is about to get more congested in the United Kingdom. Today...
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Intel launches $100M venture fund to invest in smart devices and wearables in...
Above: Brian Krzanich, Intel CEO, at IDF ChinaImage Credit: IntelHow can big data and smart analytics tools ignite growth for your company? Find out at DataBeat, May 19-20 in San Francisco. There are...
View ArticleWhy smartwatches are the real future of mobile payments
GUEST: Skooks Pong is SVP of technology at Synapse. It’s no secret that while smartphone adoption in the U.S. continues to rise – now accounting for 57 percent of the mobile market according to...
View ArticleWith $2.5M in funding, Mind Pirate will chase wearable and augmented reality...
Mind Pirate is coming out of stealth mode today with $2.5 million in funding and a plan to create games for new platforms such as augmented reality and wearable devices. The company has ambitions to...
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This $2.42 3D-printed ‘sunshade’ makes Google Glass easier to use — and less...
A PR rep who is among the first Google Explorers has created a 3D-printed shade for Google Glass that makes it easier to read — and much less obvious to observers. Without the shade, Glass was...
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Studio 9+ hatches its Awear context-aware software for wearable computing
Peter Relan’s Studio 9+ startup accelerator has revealed its latest company, Awear, which is making software for wearable computing applications. Above: Awear can deliver the information that you need...
View ArticleStudy: Apple’s bet on the wrist might be smarter than Google’s bet on the face
A new Forrester study on Google Glass might just show that Apple’s apparent obsession with the wrist might be a better bet than Google’s focus on the face. According to the study of 4,600 adults, 12...
View ArticleiWatch, meet sWatch: Sony teases new smart wearable wrist device
In all the talk about Apple’s rumored new iWatch, there hasn’t been a lot said about Sony’s already-in-the-market SmartWatch, which runs Android, connects to your smartphone, integrates with Facebook,...
View ArticleSony’s SmartWatch 2: A bigger, water-resistant Android smartwatch with NFC
Sony’s making another go at the smartwatch market, but so far, the effort looks like it’s merely an incremental upgrade over its attempt last year. The electronics giant announced the SmartWatch 2...
View Article‘Wearable’ computers will soon be inside us
Wearable computing like Google Glass is just beginning to invade our lives. Soon, it will be inside our bodies. That’s the prediction from one of the panelists in the wearable computing track of...
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Misfit Wearables CEO: ‘Wearables are not that wearable — yet’
SAN FRANCISCO — Wearable computers have generated a good deal of hype and crowdfunding dollars, but it’s still early days for this technology. The new wave of health and fitness tracking devices are...
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Chip makers are now targeting silicon for wearable devices
As wearable computing takes off, chip makers are starting to target their silicon designs so they can be used in the smallest devices. Above: Hossein Yassaie, CEO of Imagination TechnologiesImage...
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Broadcom’s CEO bets on a behemoth market for wearable chips (interview)
Broadcom has become a big name in consumer electronics and networking chips. But now the multibillion-dollar Irvine, Calif.-based chip design firm sees an even bigger opportunity in the market of...
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Intellect Motion launches Kickstarter for iMotion virtual hand controls
Intellect Motion has launched a Kickstarter campaign to raise money for its iMotion advanced motion-control device that makes you feel like you’re using your hand in a virtual space. The device started...
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Vuzix develops Google Glass-like smart glasses — but with superior optics and...
Vuzix is unveiling an optical technology for smart glasses today that it says will dramatically improve wearable technology — watch out, bulky Google Glass. Vuzix said that, in partnership with Nokia,...
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Mind Pirate unveils its first Google Glass and mobile augmented-reality game:...
Mind Pirate is announcing Global Food Fight today, an augmented-reality game that can run on Google Glass, smartwatches, smartphones, and tablets. The title is a wacky brawl where you can slingshot...
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Cow computing? Scottish company creates wearable sensors for cows
Call it cow computing. Or cow chips. Scottish startup Silent Herdsman has raised £3 million ($4.9 million) to create remote sensors for livestock farmers. The wearable collars are part of the giant...
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Mighty Cast hopes to stir up mobile apps and games for its wearable NEX Band
Mighty Cast is unveiling a new developer platform for its wearable watch-like device dubbed the NEX Band today. It is one more in an army of wearable wristbands, but NEX Band hopes to make it unique as...
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It’s not easy to make Apple Watch games, but developers are doing it anyway
FEATURE: The first Apple Watch game makers are carving a new path. Games are shrinking. But gaming market isn’t — games helped Apple’s App Store sales reach a record-breaking $15 billion in 2014. If...
View Article‘I filmed the first fight and arrest through Google Glass’
Well, it had to happen sometime. A few rowdy July 4th celebrations on a New Jersey boardwalk turned into real-life Jersey Shore as one of Google’s Glass Explorers happened to be testing the extended...
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Smart armband Myo: ‘The line between man and machine is blurring’
Myo is a gadget straight out of science fiction – a smart armband that lets you control other devices with the swing of an arm. Thalmic Labs, the Canadian company that created Myo, raised $14.5m in...
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This $200 Google Glass competitor looks like ordinary glasses — and can hold...
A tiny unfunded five-person startup in Massachusetts has created a Google Glass alternative that, they say, is much more immersive than Glass — and much less geeky. The product is a set of smart...
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