You already know the pitch. AR glasses that replace your monitor, your TV, your second screen. Every company in consumer tech has a version of it right now, and most of them require you to squint past the compromises to find the product underneath. The display is dim in anything brighter than a dark room. […]
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Most health wearables ask for two things you’d rather not give up: a nightly date with the charger, and space on a wrist that’s already busy. Sharp’s first smart ring, the Karada Mate Ring, is a bet that you’ll say no to both. The company just announced the Karada Mate Ring (model MH-R01), its debut
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If you’ve skipped smart rings because they felt like a chunky bolt wrapped around your finger, the Oura Ring 5 is the model that finally fixes that complaint. Oura unveiled it last May, opened global pre-orders the same day, and started shipping June 4. The pitch is simple: a ring Oura calls the smallest it’s
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You don’t need to wait for Apple. The smart-glasses shelf in 2026 finally has ten pairs that earn their price tags, and the gap between “buy now” and “wait for” has never been clearer. Six weeks of cross-checking specs, prices, and on-frame battery claims across the category turned up a pattern: the big brands are
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Google’s Fitbit Air is finally arriving on doorsteps this week, and at $99.99 for the device itself, the screenless tracker is shaping up as the most direct shot at Whoop the fitness market has seen in years. Buyers in the UK started reporting deliveries around June 8, and the early U.S. shipping waves are tracking
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The smart glasses market keeps adding players, but most of them ask you to choose between looking normal and actually doing something useful. (Here’s where smart glasses stood heading into 2026.) INMO thinks you shouldn’t have to. The INMO GO3, which launched on Kickstarter in April 2026 and is now heading into production, pack a
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May 2026 was the kind of month where the gadget world stopped asking “what’s next?” and just started shipping it. The Fitbit Air went screenless at $99. The Anker SOLIX S2000 promised 35 hours of fridge backup. Google unveiled the Googlebook as Chromebook’s next chapter. Modular phones made a serious comeback, AI moved off your
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Microsoft has been quietly experimenting with what an AI assistant looks like when it stops living inside a laptop, and the latest answer is a wearable you clip to your shirt. At its annual developer conference, the company pulled the curtain back on two early hardware concepts built around its AI agents. One is a
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Alongside its new 3:2 Iconia Duo tablet family announced out of Taipei, Acer slipped in two of the more interesting wearables of the year. The AR Vision GR0 and GI0 AI glasses aim at completely different audiences, one for couch gamers and frequent flyers who want a giant private screen, the other for travelers and
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The sub-$100 fitness tracker market hit an inflection point in 2026. Continuous heart rate, blood oxygen, AMOLED screens, multi-band GPS, and two-plus weeks of battery are all standard at this tier. Behind the shift: Xiaomi’s Smart Band 10 going global at $50, Amazfit’s Bip 6 bringing 5-system GPS to a $79.99 watch, the Fitbit Inspire
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Meta Ray-Ban gets the magazine covers. Amazon’s smart-glasses category gets everyone else. And “everyone else” is doing more interesting work than the headlines suggest. AI assistants on open-ear frames, real Micro-OLED AR displays, 4K POV camera frames, and built-in prescription audio glasses are all sitting one search away, often for half what the big names
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Summer is the season that tests your gear the hardest. Heat warps batteries, sweat shorts out cheap electronics, sand jams sensors, and the hour you spent picking the perfect outfit gets undone the moment you sit down on a humid bus. The wearables you reach for in July and August have to do more than
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Best smart glasses 2026, in one sentence: five pairs are worth buying today, two are worth waiting for, and the gap between those columns has never been clearer. The reason is one specific week. Google I/O 2026 finally previewed the Warby Parker–and–Gentle Monster Android XR glasses with Samsung as hardware partner. Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman locked
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For nearly five years, the Forerunner 55 quietly anchored Garmin’s entry tier as the watch you recommended to friends who wanted a real running companion without paying flagship prices. The Forerunner 70 doesn’t just replace it. It rethinks what an entry-level running smartwatch can be. Garmin has packed in a vivid AMOLED touchscreen, a more
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A smartwatch on the wrist glows in your face at 2 a.m., gets caught on sleeves, and asks to be charged the moment you’re ready for bed. A ring sits there quietly, reading the same heart-rate variability and skin temperature data, then hands you a sleep score before coffee. That contrast is the reason smart
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Google I/O 2026 was an AI keynote with a hardware coda. The keynote ran almost entirely on Gemini 3.5, Gemini Spark, a Search rebuild, and agentic tools, then Google saved the last segment for the hardware story it has been building toward for two years: smart glasses. The hardware list out of Shoreline this week
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Meta has shelved its 2026 Quest 4 prototypes, pushing the true successor to 2027 at the earliest. Industry reporting from June 2025, leaked internal memos from December 2025, and Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth’s January 2026 Davos interview line up on the same picture: both planned tiers of the next flagship are off the table, and
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Why 2026 is the year every brand wants a rugged watch The rugged category was niche for a decade, and then it wasn’t. Every major brand now treats “rugged” as a default product line, and the shift didn’t happen because watches got tougher. It happened because the fastest-growing sport among mainstream tech buyers is being
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Garmin’s loudest watches have always been the Forerunners. The fenix gets the marketing budget, the Forerunner 970 gets the running coverage, and the Venu has spent four generations stuck between “the friendlier Garmin” and “the one that isn’t a fitness computer.” That positioning’s finally over. Price: $499.99 (On Sale) Where to Buy: Amazon The Venu
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There’s a fitness tracker without a screen, a phone with a swappable back panel, a tablet that wants to be a laptop, and a speaker that runs on zero electricity. Each one caught our attention in the last two months, and not one of them looks like the safe version of its category. That’s what’s
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