Samsung’s New Gear S Smartwatch Features A Curved Screen And 3G Connectivity

 Samsung officially takes the cake when it comes to launching smartwatches: It just announced the Samsung

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Asus Teases Its Smartwatch Launch For September 3

 Earlier this year at Google I/O, we reported that Asus was working on its own Android Wear smartwatch, to be launched in

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Sproutling Opens Pre-Orders For Wearable Baby Monitor That Makes Your Life Less Stressful

 Calling itself the “world’s smartest baby monitor” Sproutling is launching its pre-order

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Moff Is A Wearable Bluetooth Bangle For Kids That Adds Sound-Effects To Everyday Play

 And the award for cutest wearable goes to… Moff! A smart bangle for kids that’s being developed

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Chiaro Reboots The Pelvic Floor Exerciser As A Sleek Connected Wearable Called Elvie

 Pelvic floor/kegel exercises have had known benefits for women for decades, especially post-child birth. The challenge has always been motivating

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The Basis Peak Is A Premium Fitness Tracker That Could Be A Little Smarter

 The Basis Peak is the second wearable this year out of Basis, the health wearable startup Intel acquired earlier this year. In many ways,

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Apple’s NFC Payments Play Could Make Its Wearable A Computing Friction Killer

 Apple could be gearing up to make its so-called ‘iWatch’ a payment device powered by NFC, according to a new report from the Wall

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Everykey Wants To Put Your Passwords On Your Wrist

 The password as a digital authenticator is under more strain than ever. But is the answer to memorizing multiple

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Withings Activité Pre-Order Puts A New Price On The Undercover Activity Tracker: $450

 French health and fitness device-maker Withings has kicked off pre-orders for its Activité watch/activity tracker,

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Non-Profit Stupid Cancer’s Support App Instapeer Is Seeking Funds On Indiegogo

 When Matthew Zachary was diagnosed with brain cancer at age 21 and told he had just six months to

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Apple CEO Tim Cook Described As Less Hands-On, More Interested In Broad Implications With iWatch

 Apple CEO Tim Cook is the subject of a new profile in the New York Times today, and the profile includes plenty of

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Apple iWatch Coming In October With Curved OLED Screen And Health Tracking, Says Nikkei

 Apple revealed a lot of news at its annual Worldwide Developers Conference this year, but it didn’t discuss or show off any iWatch.

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Apple’s New iPhone Ad Stars A Bunch Of Health Gadgets That Are Not An iWatch

 Somewhere in my basement I have a Presidential Fitness

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Apple’s Health Offerings Focus On Data Collection, Not Interpretation

 One of the major announcements in Apple’s iOS 8 presentation yesterday was the Health app and the HealthKit system that allows developers

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Prime Takes On The Challenging Task Of Bringing Your Health Records To Mobile

 The founders of Prime, a mobile app promising an easier way to securely collect all your health records from various physicians into a

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Fitness Tracker Moov Raises $3 Million For Its Wearable A.I. Coach

 The crowdfunded fitness tracker Moov, built by former Apple engineer and HALO game designer Nikola Hu, Microsoft Research vets

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Misfit Launches An SDK For Its Sleep And Activity Tracking, Including Shine Enterprise Partners

 Activity tracking and wellness startup Misfit continues to diversify its operation away from being a straightforward

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Ybrain Raises $3.5M To Fund Trials Of Its Wearable For Alzheimer’s Patients

 Ybrain, a Korean startup that makes wearables for Alzheimer’s patients, announced today that it has raised $3.5 million in Series

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Nudge Is A Dashboard For All Your Fitness Wearables And Apps

 Despite not being a particularly fitness-obsessed person, I’ve fallen for the fitness tracking trend. My main fitness tracker is a Jawbone

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PicnicHealth Stores Your Medical Records In One Place And Delivers It To Your Doctor

 As if getting diagnosed with a medical condition isn’t difficult enough,

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Clear Ear’s Products Are Safe Alternatives To Cotton Swabs

 Ear wax might not seem like a big deal, but for people who are hard of hearing or have issues with their middle ear, a build up of the

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Movo Wave Wants To Make The Activity Tracking Wristband Affordable For All

 The days of the $100+ activity tracker might be over; Movo, a consumer tech company out of NYC, is kicking off pre-orders today for a $29

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Kurbo Health Raises $5.8 Million To Fight Childhood Obesity Via An App, Live Now On iOS

 Kurbo Health, a mobile subscription service focused on fighting childhood obesity through the use of simple food diaries and

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Migraine Buddy Helps Patients And Doctors Work Together For Better Treatment

 Migraines aren’t just awful headaches. They are a neurological condition that often come

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Forget Wristbands, FreeWavz Brings Fitness Monitoring To Your Earphones

 Health and fitness monitoring is a popular function in many of today’s

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Apple’s Smartwatch Said To Debut In October With A 2.5-Inch Screen And Wireless Charging

 Apple will reportedly launch its smartwatch as early as October, after kicking off production in July,

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Fitness App Usage Is Growing 87% Faster Than The Overall App Market

 A new report from Flurry Analytics shows that health

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Apple Explores Ways To Automate Notifications And Alarms Based On Feedback From Wearables

 Apple had some new patent applications related to wearables published today (via AppleInsider) and they all deal with a system in which

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Google Fit App Now Available For Android Devices

 Google has released its Fit app, which acts as a central storehouse for activity recorded via your Android device, and via apps that use

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Correction: Switzerland Now Has An Incredible Competitor

 So here we are, in the hours after the official launch of the Apple Watch, and we need to address just what the watch means for

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Apple Watch Introduces A New Old Form Of Communication: Doodling

 The problem of how to type on a watch-sized touchscreen has had tech watchers and keyboard makers scratching their heads ever since Apple was

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Apple Just Won CES 2015

 Welp. There goes the next CES. With the Apple watch shipping “in early 2015,” Apple just sucked all the air out of the Las Vegas

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Everything You Need To Know About The Apple Watch

 First, as a watch lover, I’m blown away. Apple has gone above and beyond the job in terms of materials and design and, more important,

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Apple Resurrects The Scroll Wheel

 After seeing countless competitors release smartwatches, Apple just unveiled its Apple Watch. At the heart, it looks a lot like Android

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Meet The Apple Watch

 During its iPhone 6 launch event this morning, Apple announced the Apple Watch, its first foray into the world of wearable tech. It’s a

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Pebble Gets A Permanent Price Cut, Plus Background Sleep And Activity Tracking

 Smartwatch pioneer Pebble is hoping to make its platform accessible to more people with a permanent price drop of $50 and $30 for both

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Apple Rubs Elbows With The Fashion Elite For Paris Apple Watch Event

 Apple is at Paris Fashion Week, hosting a special event for the Apple Watch at Collette, a high-end boutique shop in

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CEO Of Guess Watches Welcomes Apple To The Fray

 In what amounts to a “welcome” turned sputtering softball aimed at Apple’s

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Gillmor Gang: AppleJacked

 The Gillmor Gang — Dan Farber, Robert Scoble, Benedict Evans, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor. It’s three

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The Gold Apple Watch Could Cost As Much As $1,200

 A jewelry contact familiar with the matter told TechCrunch that the gold, 18-karat version of the Apple Watch

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The Apple Watch Is Most Interesting At The High-End

 While we got to see a number of features and a ton of variations of the Apple Watch at this week’s event

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This Week On The TC Gadgets Podcast: HP Sprout, New Fitbits, And Other Wrist-Worn Tech

 Fitbit announced a few new devices, including the Fitbit Charge and the Fitbit Surge, both of which we’re excited about. Plus,

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Jony Ive Is So Focused On Design He Doesn’t Know Apple’s Key Financial Numbers

 Apple design lead Jony Ive spoke to an audience at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art last night, the Wall

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Apple Watch Will Need Juicing Daily, Says Tim Cook

 Apple fans hoping Cupertino’s reality distortion field was going to do magical things to the battery life of its forthcoming Apple

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This Is What The Apple Watch Interface Looks Like On An iPhone

 Ever since Apple announced the Apple Watch, it’s been easy to let the imagination wander a

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Fitbit Won’t Work With HealthKit Because It’s Building An Apple Watch Competitor

 A few weeks ago, Fitbit publicly admitted that it had no plans to follow the growing crowd of fitness trackers and apps that are

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Apple Announces Apple Watch SDK, Launches In November

 Apple just announced its SDK for the upcoming Apple Watch. Called WatchKit, the kit launches next month. The word comes

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Salesforce’s Service Cloud 1 Is A Wearable Technology Trojan Horse

 Imagine a scenario in which an oil rig worker suddenly hears an alarm sound from somewhere on the rig. The adrenaline rush

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