A Designer Just Answered Facial Recognition With a Medieval Visor
Facial recognition has become one of the fastest-growing forms of infrastructure in public life. Cameras in airports, transit systems, retail spaces, and city streets capture…
Wearables
Rogbid SpinR is a rugged, budget-friendly smartwatch with optical scroll wheel for navigation
Rogbid believes traditional crowns are so dead. The watches now need mouse-style scroll wheels because, why not? If you think that’s a good idea, and…
Get Ready for the $349 Smart Ring That Vibrates on Your Finger
Smart rings have quietly become one of the more compelling wearable categories, but they’ve also settled into a familiar pattern. Almost every new model competes…
Sennheiser’s $200 Clip-On Buds Defeat Bose Ultra Open on Battery — And Skip the US
Clip-on earbuds were always going to go mainstream; the category just got there in the east first. Huawei’s FreeClip became roughly as ubiquitous as AirPods…
This $60 Apple Watch Case Is the iPod Apple Never Replaced
There’s a specific kind of nostalgia attached to the original iPod’s click wheel that has very little to do with the music. It had to…
After MouthPad, Augmental unveils Vox, a privacy-focused wearable mic that lets you whisper-to-type
The most interesting interface ideas often begin where conventional gadgets start to fail. Voice assistants want you to speak up, microphones capture the whole room,…
Samsung and Google Are Trying Smart Glasses Again, at the Worst Possible Time
“Glasshole” entered Urban Dictionary as word of the day in March 2013, which tells you roughly how long it took society to make up its…
Garmin Just Built the Whoop Alternative That Needs No Subscription
There’s a growing frustration with fitness wearables that has nothing to do with their accuracy or features. It’s the screen. Even devices that track recovery…
This $19 Module Solves the Hard Part of Building a Custom Smartwatch
The consumer smartwatch market has become a fairly predictable place. Most wristwear from major brands covers health monitoring, notifications, and a tightly controlled app ecosystem,…
Honor Watch 6 Review: Great Endurance, Not Quite Perfect
With the Watch 6, Honor has given the series a complete visual reset. After the square-faced Watch 5, this new model arrives with a round…
Wake Up, Neo. Your Ring Is Playing the Matrix.
Look at the Digital Rain Ring when the screen is off, and you might not immediately clock what you’re looking at. A clean silver bezel….
Smart Glasses Could Transform Sports. But There’s a Trust Deficit.
For centuries, a pair of glasses has been one of the most socially innocent objects a person can wear. They exist in one of two…
Xiaomi Watch S5 46mm Review: Looking Good, Lasting Longer
The Xiaomi Watch S5 46mm looks less like a gadget trying to pass as a watch and more like a watch that happens to be…
Nudge Is the Brain-Tuning Wearable We Didn’t Know We Needed
We’ve gotten pretty comfortable letting technology tell us how to sleep, how many steps to take, and when to breathe. The next frontier, apparently, is…
Meta Just Launched $299 AI Glasses Without the Ray-Ban Name
Smart glasses have been trying to go mainstream for years, but pricing has been a stubborn barrier. The Ray-Ban Meta glasses popularized the category by…
HONOR packed a 35-day battery into a 41g smartwatch – and nothing else comes close
Every smartwatch eventually comes off. The reasons vary: the charge ran out, the case dug in, the weight got old. Battery anxiety and wrist fatigue…