Garmin has launched the Forerunner 245 and 245 Music GPS smartwatches, which are aimed at advanced runners in their training regimes. Designed with the demands and requirements of athletes, the Garmin Forerunner 245 packs tracking and stat monitoring capabilities to deliver comprehensive reports for training history and for more effective
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Horology has long been one of my obsessions. With a particular soft spot for clean, modernist bauhaus design - best embodied in brands like Nomos and Junghans, I was immediately attracted to the Withings Steel line of tech-powered analogue wearables when I encountered them years ago. Despite the recently-unveiled Move
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Fitbit has announced the availability of a line of new products, intended to increase accessibility and affordability to a larger audience. The new Fitbit Versa Lite Edition, Inspire and Inspire HR trackers, and the upcoming Fitbit Ace 2 wearables offer a greater range of options for users. [caption id="attachment_135199" align="alignleft"
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Samsung has introduced the Galaxy Buds, built in partnership with AKG. With improvements to sound quality, the Buds have adaptive dual microphones that intelligently analyses environmental noise to enhance voice for calls. [caption id="attachment_134943" align="alignleft" width="1024"] The Galaxy Buds in the three available colours: White, Yellow and Black. Image: Ian
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The Garmin Instinct retails for SGD 499, yet claims to have many of the features of Garmin’s flagship outdoor wearable Fenix series. It’s marketed as a rugged outdoor adventure watch, built to US Military Standard 810G, to endure high and low temperatures, impact, and immersion. You’re here because you’ve heard
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Verily, a subsidiary of Google parent company Alphabet, is responsible for Study Watch, a smartwatch for research purposes in to Parkinsons and heart diseases. As such, it only captures health data for clinical research, with metrics including heart rate, electrodermal activity and body movement. Launched in 2017, the Study Watch
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Mounting evidence of Apple's great thrust toward health applications were all around: the unification of the built-in Health and Fitness applications, and then the introduction of HealthKit, GymKit, CareKit and ResearchKit to extend capability, support and collaboration with developers and researchers around the world. With the launch of the Apple
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Tough and capable, the Garmin Instinct brings most of the vast feature set of the Fenix family to a more affordable price point. At SGD 499, the Instinct far more accessible to a wider audience. GPS, GLONASS and Galileo satellite navigation along with wrist-based heart rate sensing combines with the
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With 35 million units shipped globally, Fitbit's Charge family is its most popular. The Charge 3 is the latest in line, and brings several game-changing features that will ensure greater utility across a wider range of usage cases and user preferences. [caption id="attachment_134367" align="alignleft" width="1024"] The Fitbit Charge 3 in
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Spotify has finally launched its Apple Watch app officially today. After testing it earlier in the month, the application is now available on the App Store within the Watch app. In its first iteration, it allows users to control music via Spotify Connect and to play music on the Apple Watch
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Apple has just released watchOS 5.1.1, about a week after watchOS 5.1 was released and quickly removed after some users reported the update made their Apple Watch Series 4 freeze permanently. With watchOS 5.1.1, Apple has provided the updates intended to ship with the fatal watchOS 5.1 update previously. This includes
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Garmin Singapore has announced integration with popular Swedish-based music streaming app Spotify on Garmin music-enabled watches. Presently, the latest Garmin Fenix 5 Plus watch is also able to store audio, allowing users to concentrate on their outdoors distraction-free without lugging your smartphone along. Other compatible models should be added in
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Released yesterday in conjunction with iOS 12.1, WatchOS 5.1 has been a highly-anticipated update that would bring new watch faces, support for 70 new emoji released with iOS 12.1, and bug fixes, especially for the new Walkie Talkie feature and the Fall Detection system. This update quickly followed the October 30th
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At the Apple Special Event currently ongoing in Cupertino, California, Apple has announced the new Series 4 Apple Watch. While familiar in design, the watch has been refined, with a display that is larger by more than 30%, and with a thinner and smaller case and total volume. To best
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Just a week ago, Garmin has announced the launch of its Garmin Fenix 5 Plus line of watches, successors to its premium line of Fenix multi-sport watches. Built with the toughest materials, to the most exacting standards, and packed with the best features, Garmin Fenix is targetted at professional
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Garmin has announced the availability of new additions to its Fenix and Vivoactive lines in Singapore today. The Fenix line of watches is the brand’s flagship line of premium multi-sport wearables, with full-fledged weather sealing and durability features. [caption id="attachment_133099" align="alignnone" width="2009"] Garmin's latest additions to their line of fitness
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Looking more like a sci-fi knuckleduster, Tap's groundbreaking wearable keyboard and mouse combo has been something I've been proud of since its early days in development. With the inherent user-unfriendliness of tablets when it comes to text inputs (I have tiny hands), I've longed for something that requires less contortion
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[embed]https://vimeo.com/231671121[/embed] At first glance the new Sennheiser CX 1.00 BT earbuds looks very similar to the premium Momentum Wireless M2s. It’s got the same distinctive neckband, but now with a more attractive price point. Will these ‘buds get me warm under the collar? Let’s find out. Build Quality and Design
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We reckoned that it was only a matter of time before the world's most popular Fitness Tracking company, Fitbit, launched a smartwatch, and here it is - the Fitbit Ionic. The fitness brand also took the opportunity to launch its first wireless headphones, the Fitbit Flyer, upgraded to the Fitbit
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I’m sure you’ve seen the online advertisements for TrackR products helping you find your misplaced keys, but they actually do a bit more than being just a tracking sensor for your house keys. TrackR has a range of tracking products and the TrackR pixel is the most affordable - you
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