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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The smart glasses race finally has a credible Apple release window, and it isn’t the one fans were hoping for. Longtime Apple reporter Mark Gurman now says the company plans to show off its first smart glasses in 2026 and ship them in 2027, per coverage from MacRumors and Macworld of Gurman’s Power On newsletter.
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Something shifted in smart rings this year, and it’s not subtle. The category Oura defined for almost a decade isn’t a one-horse race anymore. There are at least three rings on the market right now that beat Oura on a single measurable axis, and the buyer who reflexively types “best smart ring 2026” into Google
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Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses are the most popular AI wearable on the market, and as of April 2026, Meta sells two frames built specifically for prescription wearers. The Blayzer Optics (Gen 2) and Scriber Optics (Gen 2) start at $499 for the frame and are available at LensCrafters, Sunglass Hut, Meta.com, and Ray-Ban.com per EssilorLuxottica’s
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Smart glasses have a runtime problem nobody likes to talk about. You’re spending ~$500 on something that lives on your face, then pulling it off every few hours to find an outlet. The biggest blocker to all-day wear isn’t the camera or the AI. It’s the battery. Alibaba’s Quark AI Glasses S1, launched in China
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HUAWEI’s been quietly stacking its lineup with releases that aren’t getting the airtime they earn. Two of them landed this spring and they’re the ones reshaping how the ecosystem hangs together: the WATCH FIT 5 Series and the MatePad Pro Max. Around them, four current-generation devices round out an ecosystem story that’s pushing into territory
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Fitbit’s been the name people say when they mean “easy fitness tracker,” and Google just leaned all the way into that legacy with something tiny, screenless, and cheaper than a lot of people guessed. The new Fitbit Air starts at $99.99, rides quietly on your wrist, and pushes everything visual into the Google Health app
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For two years, the AI wearables fight has been a fight over your face. Frames keep getting thinner. Lenses keep getting smarter. Every new launch asks you to put a small computer between your eyes and the rest of the world, then trusts that you’ll get used to wearing it all day. The bet across
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The AI wearable category is in an awkward phase. The premise is compelling: persistent ambient AI that helps when you need it and stays out of the way when you don’t. The first flagships (Humane’s AI Pin, the original Rabbit R1, the early Friend pendant) all stumbled for the same reason. They asked people to
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