MOTO 360 smartwatch’s sapphire: wearables’ first must-have feature

Motorola took the wraps off its Moto 360 smartwatch earlier this week alongside Google’s introduction of the Android Wear platform. The Moto 360 was teased in a variety of fashions, … Continue reading

Stir, A Kinetic Desk Startup From An Ex-Apple Engineer, Raises $1.5M Led By Tony Hsieh’s Vegas TechFund

As the world continues to see more and more everyday objects become “hardware” controlled through operating systems and internet connectivity, an ex-Apple engineer called JP Labrosse is hoping to take that principle and combine it with elegant design to transform the prosaic world of office desks. Read More

Samsung's Gear Fit Is Coming in April for $200

Samsung's Gear Fit Is Coming in April for $200

Samsung’s Gear Fit —a pretty lookin’ smartwatch-fitness tracker hybrid—has finally gotten its price. It’ll be available for a cool $200 and will be showing up sometime in April.

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SmartMio fitness wearable jolts the body with electricity

This week the folks behind SmartMio are aiming to bring some extra in-depth fitness tracking to the public. They’ll be doing this with EMS, or Electrical Muscle Stimulation, also known … Continue reading

Nielsen on wearables: people want more style, lower prices

Though the wearables market has gained solid momentum over past months, wearable technology is still a niche and most likely to be found while out and about in the form … Continue reading

AT&T Samsung Gear 2, Neo, Gear Fit releases set

This week the folks at AT&T have let it be known that they’re releasing the full Samsung collection of wearable devices revealed at Mobile World Congress 2014 including the Gear … Continue reading

Samsung Gear 2 and Gear Fit price tag announced in Taiwan

Samsung has just recently held a press event in Taiwan announcing its newest Gear 2 and Gear Fit wearables. And along with that announcement came information that everyone has been … Continue reading

This Watch's Spinning Spectacle Is More Distracting Than a Smartphone

This Watch's Spinning Spectacle Is More Distracting Than a Smartphone

Baselworld 2014—the CES for the watch industry—is just around the corner and you know what that means: an endless parade of mechanical wristworn masterpieces that most of us could never dream of affording. Like Jacob&Co’s new Astronomia Tourbillon which features enough spinning components to distract even a devout smartphone addict.

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Project Morpheus PS3 integration or PS Move for PS4: one or both

Today Sony has announced their newest virtual reality headset, one called Project Morpheus. In the lead-up to this device reveal, they showed off several experimental headsets they’d worked with, one … Continue reading

SlashGear 101: Android Wear for Google wearables

Google’s first big play in the wearables ecosystem is in Android Wear, a version of Android introduced on March 18th, 2014. This system is centered around two core functions: Suggest … Continue reading