The Travel Industry and Smart Bands: A Perfect Fit German TUI Group is the world's largest leisure and travel company. The firm offers package holidays to destinations around the world ...

The Pressure Is on to Make Richer Wearables On 12 November, Texas-based Fossil — a leading maker of watches, jewellery, handbags and other style accessories — announced its agreement to ...

Wearables Crowd-Funding Projects Continue to Overpromise and Underdeliver In 2014, I noted that crowd-funded wearables projects were struggling to deliver products on time (see Blog: Crowd-Funded Projects Struggle to Hit ...

High Category Awareness for Wearables but Key Selling Point Eludes A new product category can linger under a haze for years before striking a chord with its audience — raising ...

A Quartet of Flagships Unveiled in New York Back in March 2015, FDM CCS Insight noted that Microsoft's hardware business had evolved over the decades from a side interest to ...

Fusing Together Traditional Watch Design and Modern Sensors Last week venerable watchmaker Timex unveiled a new analogue watch with a contemporary feature: it's also an activity tracker. While Timex's new ...

The Smart Clothing Market Is Still Warming Up Smart clothing certainly wasn't a recurring theme at the IFA 2015 trade show in Berlin. FDM CCS Insight saw only one company, ...

Opportunities in Down Time Smart sleep is in vogue. CCS Insight recently conducted an end-user study in which we interviewed 3,000 consumers in three countries (China, the UK and US) ...

Smartwatches and Autos Working Together Most fidgety gadget users probably think that their best days are behind them — in the pre-touch-screen world, sliding and folding handsets offered highly satisfying ...

Toshiba Addresses an Ageing Market Almost 25 percent of Japan's population is above the age of 65, compared with about 16 percent in the UK and 15 percent in the ...