Pricing for modular Blocks smartwatch announced

Blocks modular smartwatch

The start of the Kickstarter campaign for the modular Blocks smartwatch is now less than 24 hours away. While UK-based Blocks Wearables has revealed a fair bit about its smartwatch, it has until today described pricing only as “flagship affordable,” leaving us to wonder exactly how much it will go for. It turns out that “many of you have asked about prices.” […]

Specifications of upcoming Android Wear Elephone ELE-Watch

Elephone ELE-Watch

Additional details have emerged about the Elephone ELE-Watch. Elephone is far from a well-known name in North America but its first Android Wear smartwatch could start to change that. The Elephone ELE-Watch has now popped up on online retailer GearBest‘s website with new details in tow. It is billed as “the next step in smart watch evolution.” In terms of specifications, here […]

Omega Watches showcases Orbis Flying Eye Hospital in World Sight Day documentary

World Eye Day

October 8th was World Sight Day. On that day, Omega shone the spotlight on its partner organisation Orbis International, a non-profit organization dedicated to saving sight worldwide, and their their Flying Eye Hospital, a fully equipped mobile teaching ophthalmic hospital. To celebrate the fourth year of the partnership, Omega released “The Hospital in the Sky,” a documentary in which Cindy […]

Google makes first executive changes under new CEO Pichai

Google logo

When Google in August announced that it was restructuring and becoming a larger collection of companies known collectively as Alphabet, it announced Sundar Pichai as the new CEO of the company that would continue to carry the name Google. New CEO Pichai this week made his first executive shuffle, promoting three from within the company. Hiroshi Lockheimer, with Google since 2006 […]

ASUS releases ZenWatch FaceDesigner app to create watch faces

ASUS ZenWatch FaceDesigner

The ASUS ZenWatch 2 launched on the Google Store and other retailers in the U.S. earlier this week. If none of the included watch faces appeal to you, ASUS has released an app that just might be able to get you exactly the one you want. Aptly called the ZenWatch FaceDesigner, it lets you design custom watch faces for its latest smartwatch as well […]