Will the iPhone 6 Plus Drive Apple’s Watch Sales?
Justin Sullivan/Getty Images When Apple first announced its wrist-worn wearable at a media event last September, some industry watchers wondered how the company planned to convince consumers to spend...
View ArticleApple Watch or Android Wear? 10 Questions to Help Decide
Shortly before Apple began its “Spring Forward” Apple Watch event, Google released an ad that highlights a feature of smartwatches that run on its Android Wear platform, one the Apple Watch arguably...
View Article7 New Technologies You Should Check Out This Week
Source: Thinkstock Are you on the lookout for the latest app you won’t be able to put down, the next gadget you’ll be itching to get your hands on, or the slickest new tools to make your work day more...
View Article5 Crowdfunding ‘Con’ Projects That Completely Failed
Source: iStock Fun and exciting projects are what Kickstarter and Indiegogo are all about. If the market isn’t meeting the demands of consumers, these crowdfunding sites allow your dollar to go to work...
View ArticleShould the Apple Watch and Other Smartwatches Be Simpler?
Source: Kickstarter.com As Pebble’s latest smartwatch, the Pebble Time, raises a record amount of funding on Kickstarter, it stands out from competitors like the forthcoming Apple Watch or the many...
View ArticleWhat Makes a Good Apple Watch App? No One Knows Yet
Source: Apple.com What makes a good Apple Watch app? Frankly, we don’t yet have any idea. But that hasn’t kept thousands of developers from trying to figure it out. Writing for The Wall Street Journal,...
View ArticleWhen Will Your Apple Watch Finally Ship?
Don Emmert/AFP/Getty Images Even though you’ve waited months for Apple to share all the details of the Apple Watch and months for the smartwatch to actually go on sale, chances are that after you order...
View ArticleMicrosoft Band: One of the Best Smartwatches May Get Better
Source: Microsoft.com Tech-savvy consumers are becoming more and more interested in the array of options for smartwatches that can help them better track their health, stay on top of smartphone...
View ArticleTop 5 Smart Watches for Under $200
The battle for consumers’ wrists intensified in early 2015 with announcements of new smartwatches and fitness trackers by Apple and Fitbit. With all the fanfare, it could be easy to overlook options...
View Article8 Science Fiction Movies That Accurately Predicted the Future
Source: Paramount Pictures It should come as no surprise that science fiction writers have often provided prescient glimpses of future technologies. From the advanced submarine imagined by Jules Verne...
View ArticleIs the Apple Watch as Popular as Apple Hoped?
Stefania D’Alessandro/Getty Images Apple’s quarterly financial results are in, and, as expected, Apple didn’t disclose how many Apple Watches it sold last quarter. Instead, it included the Apple...
View ArticleWhich Smartwatch Should You Buy?
Source: Android.com Choosing a smartwatch can be a difficult task, especially as you try to separate the devices that offer useful features with those that are packed with gimmicky functions that...
View ArticleThe Big Problem With Smartwatches: Their Batteries
Source: Android Fitness trackers, smartwatches, and other forms of wearable technology are fun to learn about, fun to experiment with, but less fun to actually wear on a daily basis. The biggest...
View ArticleCan New Android Wear Watches Compete With Apple Watch?
Source: Android.com The Apple Watch is already the most popular smartwatch on the market, but it’s still early in the game. Google and all of its Android Wear partners are determined to help their...
View Article5 New Smartwatches That May Just Be Worth Buying
It seems that almost every week, several tech companies, large or small, unveil brand-new smartwatches. Unlike in the early days of wearable technology, many of those devices actually have the sensors,...
View ArticleWhat’s Wrong With Samsung’s Newest Smartwatch
Source: Samsung.com Samsung recently released its new Gear S2 smartwatch, a device that’s tasked with finding Samsung some solid ground in a smartwatch market currently dominated by the Apple Watch....
View Article5 Examples of How Crowdfunding Can Go Wrong
Source: iStock Fun and exciting projects are what Kickstarter and Indiegogo are all about. If the market isn’t meeting the demands of consumers, these crowdfunding sites allow your dollar to go to work...
View ArticleWhy You Still Should Not Buy the Apple Watch
Source: Apple The Apple Watch is getting some upgrades with the release of watchOS 2, Apple’s new version of the wearable’s operating system. But even the significant changes brought by the software...
View ArticleSmartwatches Then vs. Now: How Tech Has Changed in 60 Years
The Apple Watch is one of the more well known, commercially available smartwatches, but countless others are either here or on the horizon. Many consider it the next evolution of technology, but the...
View ArticleDon’t Believe These 5 Persistent Smartwatch Myths
Ever since the early rumors about the device that Apple would later introduce as the Apple Watch, the smartwatch category as a whole has been the topic of frequent discussion and wild speculation....
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