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The X4, a smartwatch designed for kids, has a disturbing number of cybersecurity vulnerabilities that could put children at risk.

Robots and Machines

This Smartwatch Lets Creeps Take Pics of Kids

By Dan Robitzski

Apple filed a patent describing AirPods that can automatically adjust volume in either ear based on where you are and what you're up to.

Artificial Intelligence

Bizarre Apple Patent Describes Self-Aware AirPods

By Dan Robitzski

A smart ring can warn users that they've caught the coronavirus up to three days before they show symptoms, potentially keeping them from infecting others.

Prosthetics and Devices

Wearable Claims to Spot COVID Three Days Before Symptoms Appear

By Dan Robitzski

Doctors are using data from a wearable to train an AI algorithm that can tell when someone's sick with COVID-19 even before noticeable symptoms start.

Artificial Intelligence

This Smart Ring Uses AI to Spot COVID-19 — Before Symptoms Begin

By Dan Robitzski

A new pair of AR smart glasses don't project an image onto its lenses. Instead, it uses lasers to shoot an image directly into the eyeball.

Virtual Reality

These AR Smart Glasses Shoot Lasers Directly Onto Your Retina

By Dan Robitzski

An Army research center patented bizarre boots that generates electricity every time a soldier takes a step, giving them a new way to power their gear.

The Army Wants to Generate Electricity Inside Soldiers’ Boots

By Dan Robitzski

Niantic, the company behind Pokémon Go, announced that it partnered up with Qualcomm to develop new augmented reality (AR) glasses.

Virtual Reality

The Company Behind Pokémon Go Is Making AR Glasses

By Dan Robitzski

Google has purchased Fitbit for $2.1 billion, but it promises not to try to recoup any of that money by using people's health data to sell ads.

Prosthetics and Devices

Google Buys Fitbit, Promises Not to Use Health Data to Sell Ads

By Kristin Houser

The Catholic Church has a new idea to promote religion in the age of smartphones: a $109 smart rosary bracelet that connects to an app.

Catholic Church Launches $109 Bluetooth “Click to Pray” Gadget

By Jon Christian

Apple was just granted three new patents for the Apple Watch, one of which involves taking an uncomfortably-close look at the skin on your wrist.

Robots and Machines

Instead of Fingerprints, Future Apple Watches May Scan Your Wrist

By Dan Robitzski

Fitbit partnered with Singapore to provide free fitness trackers to people in exchange for a monthly fee and access to their health data.

Fitbit Will Provide Free Smartwatches in Singapore

By Dan Robitzski

Snap, Inc is about to release the third iteration of its AR glasses, Spectacles 3. It's extremely unclear who they're for.

Robots and Machines

Gadzooks! Snap Inc. Is Making a New Pair of Doomed AR Glasses

By Dan Robitzski

AlterEgo lets people silently communicate with a digital assistant that gives them information, translates foreign language, or interacts with smart tech.

Robots and Machines

This Gadget Puts a Digital Assistant Inside Your Head

By Dan Robitzski

A new smart glove makes VR more immersive by making the virtual objects people touch feel as though they're really there.

Science & Energy

Smart Glove Lets You Grip Virtual Objects

By Dan Robitzski

A new lightweight knee brace generates electricity as people walk around, potentially charging medical devices or wearables.

Weird Gadget Uses Your Knee Motion to Charge Your Phone

By Dan Robitzski

A haptic feedback vest could help working dogs perform their jobs better than before by issuing specific commands through controlled vibrations.

A Vibrating Haptic Feedback Vest Could “Steer” Rescue Dogs

By Dan Robitzski

IBM recently patented a new kind of smartwatch that unfolds eight times to form a full-sized touchscreen wearable tablet.

IBM Patented a Goofy-Looking Watch That Folds Into a Tablet

By Dan Robitzski

Next-Gen Spacesuit Helmet Has an “Iron Man” Heads Up Display

Next-Gen Spacesuit Helmet Has an “Iron Man” Heads Up Display

By Dan Robitzski

Experts: Brain-Stimulating Headsets Are Probably Snake Oil

By Dan Robitzski

A Stanford scientist says that "hearables," devices that communicate with our brains through our ears like smart hearing aids, are coming soon.

Stanford Scientist Says In-Ear Gadgets Will Monitor Our Brains

By Dan Robitzski

Just days after release, Nike released a software update for its self-tightening sneaker that ended up crashing the whole system.

Software Bug Immediately Crashes Nike’s Self-Lacing Sneakers

By Dan Robitzski

When employers provide fitness trackers, they're privy to all sorts of private medical information that they can potentially use to determine layoffs.

Health & Medicine

Bosses Are Spying on Employees With Work-Provided Fitness Trackers

By Dan Robitzski

The new rectenna developed by MIT engineers is the first that's flexible enough for wearables while still generating practical amounts of electricity.

MIT Says a New Gadget Could Use Wi-Fi to Power Your Smartphone

By Dan Robitzski

Amazon's in-house design firm came up with a vest that protects its warehouse workers from robots by making them slow down.

Amazon Built Vests to Protect Warehouse Workers From Its Robots

By Victor Tangermann

The Apple Watch EKG could flag a potentially-dangerous heart condition. But it's more likely to waste everyone's time, doctors argue.

Health & Medicine

Doctors: Apple Watch EKG Users Could Burden the Healthcare System

By Dan Robitzski

With FCC permission and Facebook stepping aside, Google is now allowed to develop more powerful radar tech for gesture-detecting wearables.

FCC Clears Google To Pursue “Minority Report”-Like Gesture System

By Dan Robitzski

A smart dress that detects every time its wearer is touched shines a spotlight on sexual harassment in Ogilvy's "Dress for Respect" video.

We Shouldn’t Need a Smart Dress to Show How Often People are Harassed in Public

By Kristin Houser

The La Roche-Posay My Skin Track UV sensor monitors how much UVA and UVB radiation you're getting, so you know when to get more sunscreen.

Health & Medicine

L’Oreal and Apple Built a Wearable to Measure UV Radiation

By Dan Robitzski

A new charge-storing system looks like a fabric that can be stitched into whatever you're wearing that day, helping discretely power biosensors.

Science & Energy

A New Battery Can Be Stitched Into Clothes to Power Wearables

By Dan Robitzski

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Prosthetics and Devices

For a Thousand Bucks, You Can Get the First Non-Dorky Smart Glasses

By Dan Robitzski

Investigators have charged California resident Anthony Aiello with the murder of his stepdaughter — based on her Fitbit data.

Fitbit Data Helped California Police Track Down a Murder Suspect

By Jon Christian

Yale researchers have created a robotic skin that they can wrap around inanimate objects to give them the ability to move.

This “Robotic Skin” Can Turn Pretty Much Anything Into a Robot

By Kristin Houser

Eight months after the fitness app Strava revealed the location of military bases in Syria, the Pentagon has banned GPS tracking on wearables.

Prosthetics and Devices

The Pentagon Tells Soldiers To Stop Sharing Their Locations With Apps

By Dan Robitzski

Tooth-Mounted Diet Tracker Could Feed Our Unhealthy Relationship With Food

Tooth-Mounted Diet Tracker Could Feed Our Unhealthy Relationship With Food

By Claudia Geib

Researchers Create Device You Can Charge Just by Moving Your Fingers

Science & Energy

Researchers Create Device You Can Charge Just by Moving Your Fingers

Chinese Police Add Facial Recognition Glasses to Their Surveillance Arsenal

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Chinese Police Add Facial Recognition Glasses to Their Surveillance Arsenal

Amazon's Alexa is coming to your wearables like this smartwatch soon.

Robots and Machines

Alexa Is Coming to Wearables Thanks to Amazon’s New Developer Kit

The Most Significant Innovation in Modern Healthcare Isn’t a Drug. It’s Your Cell Phone.

Health & Medicine

The Most Significant Innovation in Modern Healthcare Isn’t a Drug. It’s Your Cell Phone.

By Kristin Houser

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Researchers Designed a Graphene-Based Electronic Tattoo That Can Monitor Your Health

The World’s Most Advanced Wireless Earphones May Finally Be Here

Robots and Machines

The World’s Most Advanced Wireless Earphones May Finally Be Here

By Kaitlyn Wylde

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Google Glass Is Back, and It’s No Longer Meant for Everyone

This Ring Remembers Your Credit Cards and Passwords So You Don’t Have To

Robots and Machines

This Ring Remembers Your Credit Cards and Passwords So You Don’t Have To

By Patrick Caughill

New Material Could Lead to Devices That You Only Need to Charge Once Every Three Months

Science & Energy

New Material Could Lead to Devices That You Only Need to Charge Once Every Three Months

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Fashion and Technology Are Merging. And It’s Astounding.

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Prosthetics and Devices

New E-Tattoos Let You Control Your Smartphone Using Your Skin

By Christianna Reedy

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Robots and Machines

New Smartglasses Can Read Your Mood

By Patrick Caughill

Graphene’s Infusion in Textiles is the Future of Wearable Electronics

Graphene’s Infusion in Textiles is the Future of Wearable Electronics

By Jelor Gallego

We’ll Have “Minority Report” Human-Computer Interactions in 5 Years

Virtual Reality

We’ll Have “Minority Report” Human-Computer Interactions in 5 Years

By Patrick Caughill

As Long as You Wear It, This Smartwatch Won’t Run out of Power

Robots and Machines

As Long as You Wear It, This Smartwatch Won’t Run out of Power

By Jelor Gallego

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Wiivv Wearables is Paving the Way to Custom 3D-Printed Apparel

Energy-Harvesting Fabric Could Make Dead Batteries a Thing of the Past

Energy-Harvesting Fabric Could Make Dead Batteries a Thing of the Past

By June Javelosa

New Tech Allows Deaf People To Sense Sounds

Prosthetics and Devices

New Tech Allows Deaf People To Sense Sounds

By Eleazer Corpuz

New Tech Could Let Devices Function for Years Without a Battery

New Tech Could Let Devices Function for Years Without a Battery

By Eleazer Corpuz

The Legendary Self-Lacing Shoes Have Finally Become a Reality

The Legendary Self-Lacing Shoes Have Finally Become a Reality

By Jelor Gallego

New Remarkably Thin Material Charges Gadgets Using Sunlight

Science & Energy

New Remarkably Thin Material Charges Gadgets Using Sunlight

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Your Contact Lenses Can Now “Talk” To Your Smartphone Over Wifi

By Jelor Gallego

This Hands-Free Camera Attaches to Your Glasses and Takes Photos When You Wink

Virtual Reality

This Hands-Free Camera Attaches to Your Glasses and Takes Photos When You Wink

By Jelor Gallego

New ‘Smart’ Sutures Send Recovery Info From Your Wound to Your Cell Phone

Prosthetics and Devices

New ‘Smart’ Sutures Send Recovery Info From Your Wound to Your Cell Phone

By Charmaine Caparas

Lightweight Exoskeleton Being Developed to Treat Parkinson’s Tremors

Prosthetics and Devices

Lightweight Exoskeleton Being Developed to Treat Parkinson’s Tremors

By Jelor Gallego

This Smartwatch for Seniors Has GPS, WiFi, Cellular Connectivity, And an SOS Button

Prosthetics and Devices

This Smartwatch for Seniors Has GPS, WiFi, Cellular Connectivity, And an SOS Button

By Jelor Gallego

It Can Feel Your Pain. Garmin’s New Watch Knows Your “Suffer Score”

It Can Feel Your Pain. Garmin’s New Watch Knows Your “Suffer Score”

Change Colors, Not Clothes: New “Smart Thread” Can Make Chameleon-Like Clothing

Robots and Machines

Change Colors, Not Clothes: New “Smart Thread” Can Make Chameleon-Like Clothing

By Jelor Gallego

Sony’s Smart Contact Lenses Can Record What You See

Prosthetics and Devices

Sony’s Smart Contact Lenses Can Record What You See

By Todd Jaquith

Samsung’s New Virtual Reality Camera Sold Out in 5 Minutes

Virtual Reality

Samsung’s New Virtual Reality Camera Sold Out in 5 Minutes

By Jelor Gallego