Smartwatches are quickly catching on with consumers. More than 5 million of them shipped in Q2 2015 alone and the smartwatch market is not expected to slow down any time soon. While most are relatively affordable affairs, a number are clearly aimed at the luxury market. The Apple Watch Edition is the best (and likely best-selling) example of that. The […]
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Will the Pick Up Girls Smartwatch help you meet more ladies?
A new smartwatch has popped up on Indiegogo that promises to do something that no other smartwatch offers. The Pick Up Girls SmartWatch promises to help you “meet more girls and have more sex.” And how will the Dating Skills Smartwatch do this, you ask.By programming your brain and making you more confident, more comfortable speaking with girls and releasing your […]
Swatch trademarks Apple’s “One More Thing” catchphrase
When Apple’s Steve Jobs said “One more thing” as he wrapped up events, we were often in for a treat. Jobs used the line to introduce the iPod Mini at MacWorld 2004, the aluminium unibody MacBook back in October 2008 and FaceTime video calling for the iPhone 4 back at WWDC 2010. More recently, current CEO Tim Cook used the […]
Pebble Time firmware 3.3 now available
Pebble this week released a firmware update for the Pebble Time and Pebble Time Steel. Pebble Time Firmware 3.3 is not as big an update as firmware 3.2 was but it does bring a feature that could prove quite useful. As you can see above, Pebble has enhanced the timeline layout with new relationship bars that show how events relate to each […]
Interactive watch faces headed to Android Wear
We first learned that interactive watch faces were coming to Android Wear earlier this summer. Google yesterday made it all official by unveiling a number of such watch faces. As the name implies, interactive watch faces will offer a greater degree of interactivity. A single tap will now allow the watch face to change its design, reveal more information or even launch a […]
Where to get the Motorola Moto X Play in Canada
Less than a month after unveiling the new Moto X Play, along with the Moto G (2015) and Moto X Stylus (which is not expected to come to Canada), Motorola’s de facto flagship smartphone for the next year or so today landed in Canada. Moto X Play specifications: Processor: Motorola Mobile Computing System (1.7GHz octa-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 615, Adreno 405 GPU, […]
More photos of new Moto 360 smartwatch surface
Motorola last week accidentally revealed the new Moto 360 smartwatch. If there were any doubts that Motorola will soon unveil this second-generation Moto 360, new pictures posted on Reddit should go a long way to alleviate them. The new pictures were snapped in the Chicago area and appear to show two Motorola employees wearing the new watches to and from […]
LG-VC110 to be rugged sports tracking smartwatch?
The LG Nemo with its high resolution display is not the only new smartwatch that LG is working on. An FCC filing has revealed that the South Korean company is working on a second model, identified as the LG-VC110. While it is plausible that the two could be one and the same, photos and a separate leak suggest instead that […]