This Month
Meta invests $5.3b in world’s biggest eye-wear maker
The minority stake in EssilorLuxottica will allow the US tech giant to continue its push to manufacture smart glasses with AI features.
Controversies aside, this Whoop tracker could slow your ageing
Whoop’s new MG health tracker will tell you how fast you’re ageing, and show you how to slow it down.
June
The big problem with Meta’s smart glasses
Sure, the tech-enabled eyewear touted by Mark Zuckerberg is stylish, but adding facial recognition may not prove as popular as some in Silicon Valley believe.
May
Sam Altman’s $10b bet to give OpenAI its ‘iPhone moment’
Artificial intelligence is helping computers get to the toughest destination of all: your face.
Google unleashes search ‘AI Mode’ – and smart glasses
The feature makes web research more like having a conversation – and the tech giant is also using artificial intelligence to re-enter the spectacles market.
Apple to develop specialised chips for glasses, Macs, AI servers
Ramping up work on smart glasses in particular would allow the US tech giant to compete with the popular Ray-Ban spectacles offered by Meta Platforms.
November 2024
What science says about sleep trackers (and beware of orthosomnia)
Most sleep trackers are good at measuring whether somebody is asleep or awake, but perform less well at determining which stage of sleep they’re in.
August 2024
What to expect from Apple’s product reveal next month
Apple is planning to hold its biggest product launch event of the year on September 10, when the company will unveil the latest iPhones, watches and AirPods.
July 2024
‘We had to have faith’: Apple’s designers on creating the Vision Pro
For these innovators, the Vision Pro isn’t just a step change in computers. It’s a step into the future.
Meet Samsung’s new Ring, Watch Ultra and not-so-new folding phones
At its biggest gadget launch of the year, the Korean tech giant finally launched its finger-worn health tracker and a new outdoors-oriented watch.
With its new wearables, Samsung goes toe-to-toe, ear-to-ear with Apple
The tech giant has finally released its long-awaited Galaxy Ring fitness tracker, but it’s not coming to Australia until later this year.
What to expect from Samsung’s biggest launch of the year
An outdoorsy Galaxy Watch Ultra could be the biggest news at this week’s Unpacked, alongside the usual artificial intelligence announcements.
Extending life expectancy big business for Manly app founders
The three surf club members started comparing workouts in 2020. Now their platform, which aggregates wearable technology data, is worth about $9 million.
February 2024
How to start running when you’re over 40
The positives of running are myriad and can include improved heart and lung health, increased joint strength and a reduction in the risk of chronic illnesses.
January 2024
Initial results from first human brain implant ‘promising’
The first human patient has received a brain implant from Neuralink, a step forward for the company that aims to let humans control computers with their minds.
December 2023
Is a $3745 app-controlled mattress topper a sound sleeping investment?
The Eight Sleep Pod Cover is great at collecting data but is missing a trick on helping you make sense of it all.
Apple wins appeal court bid to pause US watch ban
The ruling allows Apple to resume selling its Series 9 and Ultra 2 smartwatches in the US at least until another review in about two weeks time.
Apple files court appeal as US watch import ban takes effect
Apple also asked for a pause on the ban until a ruling, expected in mid-January, on whether redesigned versions of the watches infringe on Masimo’s patents.
Apple pause on holiday watch sales points to legal bind it faces
Intellectual property lawyer James Gagen said it’s striking that Apple did not prepare a fallback position to ensure continued supply.
Apple to halt US sales of smartwatches after patent loss
The company is preparing for a looming ban of models with a blood oxygen sensor – a feature first added to the line-up in 2020 – that Masimo says it invented.