Venerable Sports Tracker Gets Acquired Before there were wearables, there was Nokia Sports Tracker — one of the first smartphone apps to use location technologies to monitor fitness activities. Sports ...

Small Wearables Can Alter Big Industry Visions In 2011, Ford unveiled a research project to embed electrocardiogram (ECG) electrodes into car seats. The sensors would monitor the driver's health, detecting ...

Will Action Cameras Take up the Sales Slack? Last week, GoPro reported first-quarter sales of 1.3 million action cameras and quarterly revenue of $363 million — a year-on-year increase of ...

Medical Advancements with 3D Printing The increasingly widespread use of 3D printing has inspired creators to make everything from machine parts to sugar shapes and, of course, miniature figurines of ...

Wearables Reach a New Level of Legitimacy Trading personal data for an insurance discount isn't anything new. Several car insurance companies offer rebates to those who allow their driving habits ...

Hovering Input Caught Our Attention Smartphone hardware has become a numbers arms race of megapixels, processor cores and screen densities, storage capacities, body dimensions and standby times. The experience has ...

Developing Components for Pervasive Computing Researchers at the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science labs of the University of Michigan have developed what could be the smallest fully functioning computer ever. ...

The Company Concedes to Change — and Opportunity For more than five years, FDM CCS Insight stressed the need for Nintendo to recognise the impending disruption from the smartphone market. ...

Traditional Timepieces Still Reign Baselworld 2015 opened on 19 March and continues until 26 March. It's Swiss in origin and focus, but has become the watch and jewellery industry's most ...

Making a Case for the Not-So-Smart Watch Headlines have drawn attention to high-profile smartwatches like Apple's Watch, but some device makers have introduced connected watches that aim to be just ...