Wearable Tech Watch
Sensors, smart substrates and connected form factors.
The smart diaper is having its second act
Pampers' Lumi didn't crack the consumer market — but the sensor stack is finding a home in institutional settings.
Wearable sun safety goes mainstream
L'Oréal's UV Sense proved battery-free UV dosimetry works at scale. A cohort of stickers, clips and apps is now filling in around it.
Your Next Pair of Headphones Might Also Be a Health Tracker
Headphones are quietly becoming health-monitoring wearables — Beats' newest earbuds include a built-in blood/heart-rate sensor, and Apple is reportedly developing AirPods with embedded cameras, both moves that push headphones toward the ...
The Smartwatch Feature That Tells You Whether to Rest or Push Today
A smartwatch feature that combines energy, recovery, stress, lifestyle, and workout-strain data into one real-time 'how hard should I actually push today' recommendation represents a genuine shift from passive fitness tracking to active ...
Your Next Robot Vacuum Might Be Smarter Than You Expect
A robot vacuum/mop can now recognize over 200 different household objects in real time at under a quarter-inch of precision using dual cameras, infrared, and dedicated AI computing power — while also self-cleaning its own mop pad with co...
The Flagship Phone That Refuses to Drop the Headphone Jack
While most flagship smartphone makers keep removing the headphone jack and microSD slot, one major manufacturer's newest flagship deliberately keeps both — a genuine counter-trend bet that a meaningful segment of buyers still values prac...
The Health Tracker Your Cat Doesn't Even Know Is Working
Instead of a wearable device a cat has to tolerate, a smart health-monitoring product simply watches how a cat uses the litter box it was already going to use anyway — turning an unavoidable daily behavior into passive, continuous health...
The Beauty Industry's Secret Decade-Long Wearable-Tech Experiment
L'Oréal has been quietly running a large-scale wearable-medical-device program since 2016 — a free, battery-free UV-sensing patch distributed to over 1 million people across 37 countries with measured behavior-change data — that almost n...
Hair Care's Wearable-Tech Moment Looks Exactly Like Sun Care's
Handheld scalp-analyzer devices that connect to a phone app are turning hair care from a one-time shampoo-purchase decision into an ongoing diagnostic-monitoring behavior — the exact same pattern found in sun care's wearable UV-sensor bo...