Wearable Tech News

Samsung's Watch Ultra 2 reportedly packs 784mAh, nearly double the Pixel Watch 4's largest battery. Charging speed stays exactly the same.

Noop is a sideloadable Android app that pulls your Whoop band data for free, no subscription required.

AirPods can temporarily shut down a pacemaker if worn near the chest. Apple's most popular product comes with a cardiologist asterisk.

Google built a Whoop competitor for $150 with no monthly fees. Whoop would like a word.

Apple axed Walkie-Talkie from watchOS 27 beta without a single word of explanation. Eight years, one security scandal, zero updates, done.

Siri on Vision Pro now reads your gaze and the room, for the 600,000 people who didn't return theirs.

Samsung put a spatial computing headset in a blood donation chair. Donors grew virtual flowers while the needle was in.

Apple spent a decade deciding what your AirPods should sound like. Three sliders is the apology.

One debug command turned Ray-Ban glasses into a live facial ID tool. Meta called the reporting clickbait, then deleted the code.

Project Aura shows up with a 70-degree display, Android XR, and a price under $300. The compute puck is ugly. Nobody cares.

Ultra 1 and Series 9 share the same chip. Ultra 2 still gets watchOS 27. Apple's cutoff is a price tier, not a spec sheet.

Oura Ring 5 infers blood pressure from artery stiffness in a 6mm body. Apple Watch can't fit in your finger.

A Fitbit veteran just proved UV monitoring belongs on the body as a wearable, not buried in a phone app. If skin health becomes as tracked as steps, sunscreen compliance could actually improve.

iOS 27 gives AirPods a customizable EQ, nine years after users started asking for one.

The ROG Xreal R1 costs $849 and still tears screens. Turns out 'gaming AR glasses' is doing a lot of heavy lifting.

Palm Unlock processes your biometric data on-device, not Meta's servers, burying that detail in a firmware changelog feels intentional.

Oura's next ring detects blood pressure, sleep apnea, and finally tells you when you're wearing it wrong.

Meta was cataloguing strangers' faces in a "pending" folder while publicly calling itself "thoughtful" about facial recognition.

Samsung is reportedly copying a form factor Xiaomi launched six months ago. The follower is now the headline.

Apple's EU compliance handed Amazfit something Apple Watch owners in Europe still can't do to each other. Regulations: occasionally useful.

Garmin's next health band has no screen, no buttons, and apparently no interest in competing with your watch.

visionOS 27 lets any Bluetooth motion-tracking device control Vision Pro, Apple just handed the accessory market its invitation.

Apple Watch Series 9 and Ultra 2 share the same chip. Only one gets watchOS 27.

Siri on visionOS 27 floats as an orb, sees your view, and understands spatial context. M2 owners get the lite version.

Apple Watch Series 11 matched Stanford's medical lab sleep tracking to the minute; Ultra 4 can't even confirm what sensors its blood pressure feature needs.

Siri on watchOS 27 handles tasks on-wrist without pinging your iPhone, and the watch now kills unused features automatically to stretch battery life.

Apple's next AirPods point cameras at the world so Siri can read signs and identify objects without your phone.

Samsung's Galaxy Watch 9 ships with the exact same battery and charger as the Watch 8.

WatchOS 27 cuts off the first-gen Apple Watch Ultra while adding glowing watch hands.

XReal shipped a 2D-to-3D conversion engine in AR glasses before Apple or Meta did. That is a concrete AI feature that makes flat work documents actually useful on a headset.

Samsung's had wrist blood pressure monitoring for years. Apple's apparently almost ready.

visionOS 27 isn't just the Apple Intelligence update, it's quietly Apple's most refined Vision Pro release yet.

Ray-Ban Meta reads your recent emails for tracking numbers, but cluttered inboxes break it.

Fitbit's AI coach used to invent your workout history. The bar was low, and they cleared it.

Google's smart glasses translate speech, show directions, and surface notifications, and they look like Warby Parker frames.

A scuba diver fished a Pixel Watch 5 prototype from the ocean and it still told the time. The sensors match Pixel Watch 4 exactly.

John Ternus reportedly killed the $3,499 Vision Pro himself. Late 2027 is a long time to stand in an empty room.

Mike Rockwell built the $3,499 headset nobody bought and is now fixing Siri before the door hits him.

Google published Fitbit Air's full blueprints, including force specs and allergen rules. Your 3D printer is now a Fitbit factory.

Garmin's Fenix 9 reportedly hits 30-plus days of battery life with a microLED display. Apple Watch gets four days.

Fitbit pulled the screen, kept the AI coaching, and got 8 days of battery out of a $100 band.

Apple's camera AirPods are apparently done. Siri is the one holding up the line.

Google's mixed reality glasses weigh under 95g, run Gemini, and swap processors via a detachable puck. No eye tracking, no price, no launch date.

Apple's smart glasses hide the camera so you'll actually wear them. Meta went the other way.

Oura Ring 5 is 40% smaller than older versions. Turns out the biggest health tracking problem was the ring itself.