Wearables

Wearables
Oura Begins Offering Wellness-Oriented Wearable Technology at Best Buy
April 24, 2023

Oura’s wellness-oriented smart ring is becoming available at Best Buy. The Oura Ring — wearable technology that provides health data, insights and guidance — began its rollout to Best Buy brick-and-mortar stores Monday (April 24) and is also available on the retailer’s website, the companies...

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Gen Z Leads the HealthTech Wearable Revolution
April 17, 2023

Gen Z are a difficult group to predict. They love picking up their restaurant meals, both inside and curbside. They are most open to new ways to pay, but lag behind other age cohorts in everyday digital activities such as ordering those meals online. They...

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New Data Shows Wellness Is Leading the Way on Wearables
November 22, 2022

Wellness and wearables go together like watches and wrists, like rings and fingers, but they’re far more than digital status symbols. Wellness is bringing out the true utility of these trendy devices as innovation in the wearables space shows, borne out by new research. Analyzing...

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Mastercard Debuts Tap and Go Race Bibs at NYC Marathon
November 07, 2022

When runners who were preparing to participate in the New York City Marathon picked up their race materials for the Sunday (Nov. 6) event, one of the items was a race bib that could be equipped with a method for contactless payments.  A race bib...

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Fast Fashion, Circular Fashion Square Off on Sustainability Runway
July 08, 2022

It’s inexpensive and looks good just long enough, but fast fashion is taking flak for its environmental impact, potentially making circular fashion the next big thing in apparel. Pushback against fast fashion is taking on legal dimensions starting in the European Union (EU), where the...

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5G Connectivity Expands the Capabilities of Glass Wearables
January 13, 2022

With the addition of 5G connectivity to glass wearables, technicians, engineers, warehouse workers and other remote employees will be able to employ the low latency of 5G while continuing to work hands-free rather than having to hold a phone. This will enable a supervisor to...

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Vuzix, Verizon, Partner on BlueJeans Smart Glasses
September 17, 2021

Smart glasses firm Vuzix Corporation is working with Verizon’s video conferencing arm BlueJeans to expand the power of BlueJeans running on Vuzix’s glasses by tapping into Verizon’s 5G network and mobile edge computing. Vuzix says deploying BlueJeans at the edge lets networks execute more compute-intensive...

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Health Monitoring Puts the ‘H’ in Smartwatch as Wearables Boost Their Utility
September 01, 2021

Samsung fired its latest shot across the bow of wearables category leader Apple on Aug. 26 with the launch of its Samsung Galaxy Watch 4. Are the wearables wars heating up again? Noting, “It’s not your typical Wear OS watch … it’s called One UI...

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Facebook Plans Smartwatch With Detachable Dual Cameras
June 09, 2021

Facebook is planning to launch its first smartwatch, possibly in the summer of 2022, that will have a dual-camera display that can be detached for taking photos and videos, The Verge reported on Wednesday (June 9), citing sources and adding that the social network has not confirmed...