Gen Z are a difficult group to predict. They love picking up their restaurant meals, both inside and curbside. They are most open to new ways to pay, but lag behind other age cohorts in everyday digital activities such as ordering those meals online. They...
Wellness and wearables go together like watches and wrists, like rings and fingers, but they’re far more than digital status symbols. Wellness is bringing out the true utility of these trendy devices as innovation in the wearables space shows, borne out by new research. Analyzing...
When runners who were preparing to participate in the New York City Marathon picked up their race materials for the Sunday (Nov. 6) event, one of the items was a race bib that could be equipped with a method for contactless payments. A race bib...
It’s inexpensive and looks good just long enough, but fast fashion is taking flak for its environmental impact, potentially making circular fashion the next big thing in apparel. Pushback against fast fashion is taking on legal dimensions starting in the European Union (EU), where the...
With the addition of 5G connectivity to glass wearables, technicians, engineers, warehouse workers and other remote employees will be able to employ the low latency of 5G while continuing to work hands-free rather than having to hold a phone. This will enable a supervisor to...
Smart glasses firm Vuzix Corporation is working with Verizon’s video conferencing arm BlueJeans to expand the power of BlueJeans running on Vuzix’s glasses by tapping into Verizon’s 5G network and mobile edge computing. Vuzix says deploying BlueJeans at the edge lets networks execute more compute-intensive...
Samsung fired its latest shot across the bow of wearables category leader Apple on Aug. 26 with the launch of its Samsung Galaxy Watch 4. Are the wearables wars heating up again? Noting, “It’s not your typical Wear OS watch … it’s called One UI...
Facebook is planning to launch its first smartwatch, possibly in the summer of 2022, that will have a dual-camera display that can be detached for taking photos and videos, The Verge reported on Wednesday (June 9), citing sources and adding that the social network has not confirmed...
Wearables passed the novelty phase some time ago and are now following the money, literally, as COVID-19 keeps forcing the issue of touchless payments, and consumers continue driving demand for ever-cooler form factors to pay (and just do stuff) without physical contact. Action is heating...
