Category: Wearables
“Holy moly, I’m in Portal!” – hands on with the HTC Vive virtual reality headset #MWC15
HTC's announcement of a virtual reality headset, created in partnership with world-leading games company Valve (Half Life, Portal, Steam...), took Mobile World Congress entirely by surprise on Sunday. We were all feeling pretty clever, thinking we'd already seen everything they had to show (since most of the HTC One M9 material leaked before the launch),…
Quell is the world’s first pain relief wearable
American healthcare company NeuroMetrix has invented the first pain relief wearable. Called Quell, it consists of a strap worn around the ankle, with an electrode in the back that’s in direct contact with the skin. When you experience pain, you activate the device, which stimulates nerves in your leg, sending a message to the brain…
Pebble announces the Pebble Time Steel – and you can get one even if you’ve already invested #MWC15
Last week, Pebble unveiled their new colour e-paper smartwatch, the Pebble Time, and the world went crazy. Today at Mobile World Congress, the roof was raised again for the announcement that the new watch will also come in a sophisticated steel version. As with the previous Pebble Steel, the Pebble Time Steel is a more stylish, premium…
Fitbit announces new features to help users stay motivated #MWC15
Fitbit has taken to Mobile World Congress to announce some new automated and smart features like multi-device support, as well as improved food logging for all Fitbit users, making it easier to record and track our activity. Fitbit is further enhancing food logging to make it simpler, regardless of platform or global location, and, now,…
Huawei’s rather stylish new smartwatch #MWC15
With its Moto 360 type styling, the debut smartwatch from Chinese company Huawei looks like a contender. The company has just confirmed that the Google's Android Wear watch will be known as the "Huawei Watch", sport a 1.4-inch screen, and has been given an AMOLED coating surrounded by a luxe stainless steel frame. Features-wise, it…
Hands on with Acer’s new Liquid Leap+ smartband #MWC15
We're at Mobile World Congress this week to bring you the latest from tech brands big and small. First up this morning was Acer's pre-briefing, featuring four new smartphones and an updated version of the Liquid Leap smart activeband: the Liquid Leap+. We weren't hugely impressed by the previous Liquid Leap, having had major technical…
Moggles is a collapsible VR headset that fits in your pocket
Over the past year there has been a lot of stuff going on in the world of phone-powered virtual reality. The problem is that VR headsets are bulky and difficult to transport, unlike the smartphones they rely on. To try and solve this problem Moggles has come along with a VR headset that collapses in…
LG announces the LG Watch Urbane LTE, the first 4G smartwatch
It's been slow on the uptake, but it seems as though wearables with mobile data connections are really starting to kick off. So far all the smartwatches have come with 3G, and LG has decided to go one step further and announce the 4G LG Watch Urbane LTE. Just like the rumours predicted. We heard…
Huawei announces the 4.5G Smartband
At the moment wearables haven't really grown up and become independent from smartphones, since they still rely on them for a large number of their useful functions. Even 3G-enabled devices like the Samsung Gear S aren't truly independent from their smartphone cousins. Huawei's Smartband has no such limitation. The Smartband also happens to run on Huawei's recently…
Pebble announces the Pebble Time, a colour e-paper smartwatch
Remember that countdown that appeared on the Pebble homepage late last week? We know what it was counting down to now, and it turns out that all the rumours were correct. Meet the Pebble Time, a smartwatch with a colour e-paper display. The folks at Pebble promise that the Pebble Time will have the same…
