If monthly We Are Wearables events are not enough to satisfy your craving for everything wearable, mark September 10th on your calendar. The WT | Wearable Technologies Conference 2015 is coming to Toronto for a day dedicated to wearables. WT | Wearable Technologies will finally be coming to Canada with the WT | Wearable Technologies Conference Series. We already look forward to meeting […]
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Bremont announces America’s Cup Collection
Bremont announced in May that it would become the Official Timing Partner of the 35th America’s Cup and Oracle Team USA. To celebrate this new partnership, the company has unveiled a special edition series of timepieces aptly called the America’s Cup Collection consisting of four different watches, all with 43mm cases. Giles English, Bremont Co-Founder; “Bremont is incredibly proud to be involved in […]
Google X developing health-tracking wristband
Google could soon be jumping into the wearable hardware business. Its experimental research Google X lab, the same that came up with Google Glass and self-driving cars, is now working on a a health-tracking wristband that can collect minute-by-minute medical data and pass it to physicians and researchers. It can measure pulse, heart rhythm and skin temperature as well as environmental information like light […]
Cornerford: Gentleman watches inspired by the 1920s
While the traditional watch industry may be nervously looking over its shoulder as smartwatches continue to catch on with consumers, new players continue to unveil new horological collections. Case in point is UK’s Cornerford which aims to offer “Gentleman Timepieces” inspired by the 1920s. We craft and stand for superiority. We work hard to get where we are. The desire […]
Pebble Time now available for pre-order
If you missed out on your chance to pick up a Pebble Time during Pebble’s very successful campaign (in fact the most successful in Kickstarter history), you can now remedy that by pre-ordering it to ensure you receive your smartwatch “as soon as possible.” The best interface for a damn good smartwatch is time. Pebble Time’s new timeline interface respects […]
Google releases 17 new Android Wear watch faces
Android Wear already offers more than 1,500 different watch faces to choose from according to Google’s own count. That’s almost enough to have a different watch face for three years. But in case you’ve been looking for something new, Google today unveiled 17 new watch faces. It’s quite an assortment too. You have everything from Angry Birds and Hello Kitty […]
Huawei ready to push further into wearables
Huawei’s early forays into wearables have met with “extremely positive” reaction, according to Yang Yong, the company’s vice president of product management, who spoke last week at the Huawei Innovation Day 2015 event in Europe. Both the Huawei Watch and TalkBand B2 have been well received since being introduced at this year’s Mobile World Congress. These early successes have encouraged the Chinese company […]
Concept Sunday: Revisiting the Qwerkywriter vintage keyboard
The last time we featured the Qwerkywriter mechanical keyboard for your tablet, it was still a few days away from reaching its Kickstarter goal. Thanks to 469 backers, it not only met its US$90,000 goal but went on to raise US$129,164. Jump forward a few months and it reached the Production prototype stage in late May after a number of […]