It looks like another company is getting ready to jump into the wearable tech market. The folks over at Acer, who are best known for making laptops, ultrabooks and other mobile devices is getting ready to enter the arena of mobile tech. The company has been hinting for a while, but now we have more in the way of details. The company will be coming out with some kind...

The words “smart” and “watch” have begun to lose all meaning. After all, nearly every watch that is announce nowadays is technically a smart watch. You’d have to look far and wide to find a timepiece whose only function is to tell time. So, we can expect the smart watch to one day just become the watch. Until that day, companies will...

Just last week we introduced you to the new and improved Oculus Rift, the virtual reality headset that is now in HD and promises to bring to it’s users the most realistic virtual reality experience around. Just today, Oculus has announced that it has received a huge amount in funding – $14 million. The original Kickstarter for Oculus was hugely successful. Originally the company wanted...

Soon, very soon indeed, we’ll have Google Glass technology installed in our ocular sockets so we can see the world as we see the world. Until that wondrous and dystopian day arrives, we’ll have to rely on clunky pieces of technology that affix to our heads to do that trick. Well, either that or we can throw that tech into a helmet. Helmets are the perfect way to embed massive amounts of...

Hundreds of products are released for people to be able to monitor themselves. Heart rate monitors, sleep monitors, and so on, are the kind of thing we think about when we think of wearable monitors. But now there is a product that is used to monitor the wearers environment rather than the wearers themselves.  It’s used to monitor the pollution levels around...

There is a host of watches for runners, cyclists and swimmers, but not often do we get a watch specifically designed for other athletes. Golf is perhaps a sport that we wouldn’t think would need such a product, but nevertheless a watch for golfers has been made. It’s by Garmin, the company that has brought us a number of athletes watches, and it’s called the S2 Approach. Put bluntly,...

Gentleman, start your engines. So far, the smart watch war been waged among the giants of the high priced electronics industry. There is Sony’s SmartWatch with rumors of Apple, Google and more on the way. What about the low cost consumer-friendly devices that have made the laptop and tablet sector such a lucrative market? Can’t we get some cheapish watches...

The smart watch craze is only beginning. In the coming months and years, if the wearable technology Gods permit it, you’ll start seeing these uber-devices on just about every wrist you come in contact with. This will be many, many wrists if you are a politician or someone else who shakes hands for a living. One of the most innovative companies in the smart...

In this increasingly tech-heavy world, how can we even prove we are who we say we are? After all, government IDs can easily be faked and passwords and addresses can be memorized. If only there was some kind of simple device, something we could wear around our finger, that would let the world(and our gadgets) know beyond a shadow of a doubt that we are indeed ourselves....

If their is one thing that typifies modern life it is a plentitude of gadgets. How many do you own? Just looking at my bedroom table, I spy a video game portable console, a smartphone, two tablets and other odds and ends. All of these gizmos are super cool, there is no denying that. However, they are also super energy hogs. Also, they tend to run out of juice right when you need them most. Companies...