Wearable Tech News

AirPods Pro 3 can now pull heart-rate data from gym equipment and run your treadmill workout without an Apple Watch.

Apple's $800 original Ultra gets cut from watchOS 27 while a 2018 HomePod lives on.

Meta's smart glasses may soon ID strangers using the same facial recognition the U.S. Marshals use to track suspects.

Oura's ex-CEO says he raised €10M, got fired, and is still waiting on the 5% stake he was promised.

Snap's sixth-gen Spectacles are the first built for consumers, not developers. Five generations of homework, one shot to matter.

Samsung reportedly grew the Galaxy Watch Ultra 2 battery by 35% while keeping charging speed identical. More tank, same hose.

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.

Siri on Vision Pro now activates by eye contact, for the 600,000 people who own one.

Samsung's most practical XR demo involves a needle in your arm. The Chicago Symphony Orchestra scored it.

AirPods are getting custom EQ in iOS 27, years after every competitor already had it. Three sliders, no saved profiles.

Meta's Ray-Ban glasses had working facial recognition one debug command away from live. They removed the code, not the camera.

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 will tell you when you're wearing it wrong before it records bad data. Most health wearables wait until after.

Meta hid working facial recognition in its $799 glasses for months, then called its approach 'thoughtful.' The code disagreed.

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.

Vision Pro can now recognize real-world objects through Siri. Apple also just let anyone build a controller for it.

The 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's AR glasses convert flat 2D content to 3D in real time, Apple and Meta still haven't.

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 Vision Pro himself. Late 2027 is a long time to wait while Meta ships.

Apple sold 600,000 Vision Pro headsets at $3,499 each and still decided the whole thing was not worth continuing.

Google dropped Fitbit Air's full CAD files, so your next band costs a spool of filament.

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.