Tag: Wearable
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PlayStation VR – Project Morpheus Gets an Official Name
After recently celebrating the 20th anniversary of PlayStation in the United States, Sony has decided on a final retail name for its virtual reality headset codenamed ‘Project Morpheus’ and it going to be called – PlayStation VR. Project Morpheus was officially announced and an early version demonstrated at the Games Developers Conference last March and…
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Nintendo Reveals Pokemon Go App Game
The trailer is somewhat intense, but we can confirm that somehow Nintendo is bringing an augmented reality Pokemon title to smartphones that basically overlays your favorite digital monsters over real life using your phone’s camera – and yes, you can battle, trade, catch and do just about every other thing we’ve come to expect from…
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Samsung Gear S2 Teased in Video Showing Off Circular Design
Samsung continues to tease its next piece of wearable tech – a fashionable reinvention of the Galaxy Gear smartwatch, called Gear S2 – which now appears in a new promo clip ahead of officially launching next month. The first thing you’ll notice about Samsung’s new smartwatch is that its round. You may think a circular…
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Google Glass 2 is in the Works – Will Be Known as ‘Enterprise Edition’
After rumours circulating that Google Glass is essentially dead and buried, it has now been confirmed by Google that Google Glass 2, or as they have named it, the Google Glass Enterprise Edition, is in the making. There is no exact date as to when it will become available to the masses, seeing as the…
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parkrun and Fitbit Partner to Promote Every Day Activity
Public run organisers parkrun (intentional small p) have teamed up with fitness wearable maker Fitbit in a new scheme to encourage activity beyond the weekly run scene. parkrunners are normal every day folk who gather every Saturday morning in hundreds of locations up and down the country to complete a 5 kilometre circuit. Some do…
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Acer’s Leap wearables getting close to a full reveal
There’s three new Acer wearables on their way to the open market, teased last month we should have all the details and a release very soon. The Liquid Leap Fit, Liquid Leap Active and Liquid Leap Curve are confirmed to be on their way, though Acer is still giving nothing away regarding prices and the…
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Apple Watch Shortage Caused By Part Failure
It was originally believed that the Apple Watch shortage was due to high consumer demand – however, high-brow business news source The Wall Street Journal has reported that there might be more to the story than Apple is willing to admit and the lack of stock may actually be due to a faulty part. The…
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Asus VivoWatch May Have 10 Day Battery
Battery life is a big concern in this new wearable gadget market. The fact of the matter is you just can’t make batteries small enough to fit in wrist devices using the current battery tech. Older lithium-ion batteries are yet to see a breakthrough or any significant advance in storage capacity, and next generation solid state cells…
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Halifax Trialing Heartbeat Payment In UK
There’s a lot of reasons why we’re all unique. Our DNA, the patterns in our eyes, our fingerprints – all these and more make up a sort of personal set of biological credentials that we all carry with us wherever we go. Another one of these unique features is our heartbeat. Our cardiac rhythm, as…
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HTC and Valve Reveal Vive VR Headset
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We’re not usually blown away by products, but when we saw Valve’s latest designs for the Steam Controller we were quite stunned. The secretive company has already developed an alternative to thumb sticks in the form of haptic sensor pads so minute and accurate they can also function as speakers, but behind the scenes Valve…
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Pre-Order Sony SmartEyeGlass Now!
Sony’s got their own answer to virtual reality and augmented reality devices we’ve been seeing popping up from Oculus VR and Google – their SmartEyeGlass glasses are a direct competitor to the latter, and now a version of the chunky device is now ready for pre order in ten countries. The glasses from Sony are…
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Sony’s new SmartBand will monitor your heart rate
As I’m sure you’ll be aware, wearable technology is a big thing at the moment with market growing rapidly, manufactures are keen to make sure they can take a slice of it. One of those manufactures is Sony, who is certainly not new to the market and has already released a number of fitness bands.…