With $58-million worth of investors, some private, some not-so-private (21st Century Fox) the Osterhout Design Group (ODG) moves forward with their revolutionary augmented reality (AR) glasses. You can already buy a pair by plunking down the better part of $3K for January shipment. That doesn’t include the tinted lens... Read more
AMSA Global Enterprises LLC, the folks behind the Tushi Pal Kickstarter campaign, is yet another tech company on a short list of wearable manufacturers who get it. They may suffer the sting of wearables fatigue, but not because their product isn’t awesome. Despite that risk, on the first day of their... Read more
Not from any brand that you would recognize, developers announced more than one wearable smartphone in the last couple of years. Each one appears to have fallen off the face of the Earth. What is keeping these beautiful ideas from our lonely wrists? It’s not likely I would make the... Read more
In case you hadn’t noticed, the days are shorter. That means the nights are longer. That means winter is coming. This would make a perfect segue into a blog about Game Of Thrones, but I’m not going there. Tempting, but back to wearables… Winter means snow . Snow means... Read more
Spoiler alert, but if you suffer from asthma, by the end of this you will ask where can you get one? We’ll get there… Asthma is nothing short of awful. If you or someone you love suffers from any level of asthma, you know how frightening it can be.... Read more
You can have your burger your way. You can custom design your Chuck Taylors as you prefer. As long as one has the means, he can craft the world around him as he pleases. Why then, can we not do the same with our wearable technology? We can. There... Read more
Housed in a package that looks like a pair of Beats by Dre, Halo sends electrical impulses to your brain, which stimulate it to speed your learning curve. The actual science is a little above our pay grade, but the core of what Halo does is something anyone can... Read more
Just launched on Indiegogo, Matrix Industries smartwatch could revolutionize how we power wearables forever, but first, they have to get them on a few wrists. All in good time, but time being the operating word, if Matrix Industries is successful, we will have enough of it to last forever.... Read more
We’re calling it now, 2017 will be the year of the heads-up display (HUD). Google Glass may not have revolutionized our lives the way they wanted, but that has not stopped a small revolution of consumer-friendly HUDs. At present, what we have are some clunky devices, but what these... Read more
The recently awarded My Virtual Mission app is surging in popularity, and with good reason. Your normal gym time, which can be boring, suddenly has a goal, stretched out across the world. You have to log the calories to complete your virtual missions, but you don’t have to log... Read more
It knows when you are sleeping, it knows when you’re awake, it even knows if you’ve been bad or good. If Santa Claus created a fitness wearable, it would be Actofit. The Actofit wearable is crowdfunding on Indiegogo right now. If you fear this is just another tracker to... Read more
The plane by PowerUp Toys isn’t 100% paper, but the experience of flying it is as close as you can get to a flying dream without sleeping. The best part about this sweet little piece of tech is that you can control its path of motion by tilting your... Read more
There’s a little-known trend making its way up the ranks of fitness. Actually, it’s been around since the 90’s but hasn’t stopped growing since those early outfits. Bounce or rebound fitness employs the use of large trampolines covering the floor and walls of a room, like some kind of... Read more
The message is clear from their silly Indiegogo video: Joule is a bracelet style wearable that will charge you up with caffeine until you feel like dancing but won’t crash you out like other forms of caffeine. The dancing potion enters your bloodstream through your skin. You don’t have... Read more
The world is not shy in the tennis technology department. There’s tons of it. Most of what you find attaches to your racket or uses special cameras to capture your movement. The former is not a true wearable since it goes on your racket, the latter is an expensive... Read more
If you were to believe everything you read, you may think the smartwatch revolution were dead in the water. Third quarter projections were bad, like over a 50% decline. You may also be the wort of person who believes we never landed on the moon. Moon Landing doubters: You... Read more
For every time you’ve been walking down the street wishing, you could broadcast video from where you normally wear that diamond-shaped superhero emblem, T-shirt TV can help. You can broadcast your promo video or tune yourself into a walking music video display because we totally need that. We should... Read more
Do we have to say it? Fine. The form factor of Vufine’s devices is familiar. What will blow your mind is how little it matters to the investors on Kickstarter. They backed the first version 400 times over the campaign goals. That version suffered some design flaws. It was heavy.... Read more
Call them the no-muss, no fuss solution to 360-degree video. ORBI’s Indiegogo campaign has about a month left, but they are more than halfway to their goal. What their stylish shades solve is the problem experienced by all video recorders. You have to stop to mount them someplace, a... Read more
With a month left in their Indiegogo campaign, the Air earbuds by Crazybaby has already smashed their campaign goals. They’re simple promise: we’ll deliver revolutionary sound in a better cord-free earbud design. They aren’t even shy about who the other guys are. It’s Apple. It’s Bragi. It’s Samsung. Crazybaby... Read more