Is Snapchat set to start making technology products that we can actually touch and wear? That’s the big question that could be answered by some of its recent hires. CNET did some digging and found that the $16bn social media network (used by around 100m teens and younger millennials every day) has about a dozen wearable tech…
I’m often suspicious of surveys that come from product manufacturers or special interest groups. It’s amazing how many surveys show that, say, people want to eat more cheese or wear more wool and the surveys just happen to come from the body representing the cheese industry or the biggest manufacturer of wool products! But this…
The global wearable device market took a big step forward in Q4, but are we any closer to a world in which wearables are a sic-fi-like part of our everyday clothing? Hmmm. Not really. But that’s not to say wearables aren’t becoming more important to us.
Research specialist Gartner is throwing its weight behind smartwatches to make more of an impact in a wearables market currently dominated by low-cost fitness bands. Should Fitbit be worried? Probably not. Gartner expects 274.6m wearable electronic devices to be sold worldwide in 2016, an increase of 18.4% from 232m units in 2015. Sales of wearable…
We’re all finally switching on to wearable tech. That’s the conclusion of a new report from researchers at The NPD Group. In the US last year, dollar sales of wearables rose 110%, which is pretty impressive. And it’s shaping up as a battle royal between fitness trackers and smartwatches. One of them is winning for now,…
If you thought smart glasses began and ended with Google Glass, you’re mistaken. At least according to the wearable tech analysts at Juniper Research. They’ve launched a new report that says shipments will top 12m by 2020, with a growth spurt coming after 2017. While admitting that the market has stalled somewhat and is actually…
Shock, Horror. Outrage. Apple’s Q1 iPhone sales grew at their slowest rate since the product’s 2007 launch and are even expected to fall later this year. Does this mean the end of the world as we know it? Well, some of the headlines following Apple’s Q1 results announcement Tuesday would suggest it does. But let’s…
Only a year ago, everyone had this funny idea that ‘wearable tech’ would be all about dresses with LEDs in them, weird and wacky clothes that would look very futuristic (but wouldn’t actually do much) and jackets that could, well… switch your oven on. What they didn’t get is that to appeal to women in…
Fitbit’s a market leader in wearable tech via its fitness tracking bands so its entry into the growing smartwatch sector should mean good news, right? Wrong! The company’s shares actually fell as much as a massive 18% yesterday after the company announced its first full-colour smartwatch. So what was that all about? Investors obviously panicked…
Now for some serious innovation in sun protection. At CES, L’Oréal has unveiled a smart skin patch developed by its incubator team that can tell the wearer how much exposure he/she has had to harmful UV. Called My UV Patch, it’s thinner than a plaster, lasts around five days and can be worn just about…
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