Bluboo, a Chinese smartphone manufacturer that many of us in North America may not be familiar with, is readying its first smartwatch. Billed as the first Android Wear-powered smartwatch specialized in sport (Motorola and its Moto 360 Sport may disagree with that statement), the Bluboo Xwatch sports some rather impressive specifications for its rumoured price. Bluboo expects to launch the […]
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SIHH 2016: Two new IWC Pilot’s Watch Top Gun Miramar
IWC Schaffhausen today declared 2016 the year of the Pilot’s Watches as it unveiled a number of new timepieces at SIHH 2016. Among them are two new models in its TOP GUN Miramar line named after the famed U.S. Navy Fighter Weapons School. Joining an updated IWC Pilot’s Watch Chronograph Top Gun Miramar is the new IWC Pilot’s Watch Mark XVIII Top Gun Miramar. At 44 […]
HTC to spin off Vive VR business as separate company?
HTC is not the company it once was. Once among the leading smartphone manufacturers, it is now struggling to remain relevant in an ultra-competitive market that has already claimed many victims. Like many other companies, it has tipped a toe into the virtual reality space with its upcoming HTC Vive headset as it tries to catch the next big technology wave. A […]
SIHH 2016: Montblanc 4810 ExoTourbillon Slim 110 Years Edition
SIHH 2016 kicked off today with a flurry of new timepiece announcements. We’ll cover our favourites over the coming days. We’re kicking off with Montblanc. The company, celebrating its 110th birthday, used the event to unveil new models in its iconic 4810 Collection. Along with the Montblanc ExoTourbillon Slim are three special editions, each focusing on a different part of the world: The Montblanc 4810 ExoTourbillon Slim […]
Samsung Gear S2 discounted by US$100 until January 20th
If you’ve been thinking of buying the Samsung Gear S2 smartwatch, the next couple of days may be the best time to do so – As long as you live in the U.S. Cumulative discounts will allow you to knock off US$100 of the US$299 price of Samsung’s latest smartwatch when you make your purchase through Adorama.com. Once the Samsung Gear S2 […]
Concept Sunday: Glent assistive reading wearable
We have featured a number of concepts that could eventually help the visually impaired. These included everything from devices that provide navigation assistance such as the BuzzClip and Sunu Band to Braille smartwatches such as the Dot that provide similar functionality to traditional smartwatches. A new wearable concept, the Glent, could soon help those who are not visually impaired but facing the challenges […]
Fitbit Blaze Fitness Tracker coming to Canada on March 11
Fitbit unveiled its latest wearable at CES 2016. The Fitbit Blaze Fitness Tracker is one of those devices that blurs the lines between basic fitness tracker and smartwatch by incorporating elements of both. The company bills it as its “smartest, most stylish, most motivating fitness tracker yet.” Pre-orders are already underway on the Canadian and U.S. Fitbit website and have now come to Canadian retailers courtesy […]
Smartband and smartwatch sales could top 100 million units in 2016
Wearables proved to be a hot product category in 2015. Juniper Research this week pegged smartwatch shipments alone at 17.1 million units last year. Sales of fitness bands easily exceed those numbers. No one expects shipments to slow down any time soon and Digitimes predicts that sales of smartwatches and smartbands will hit 100 million units this year. The report adds that the second-generation Apple […]