Samsung, while it's not putting out fires, recently announced that the WELT, the company’s e-belt product, has met its Kickstarter goal and is ready to go to market. What, one might reasonably ask, is an e-belt? The WELT is basically a fitness tracker in a (men’s) genuine leather belt, with at least one unique feature. Like wrist-based trackers, WELT tracks data such as … [Read more...]
Six Examples of Wearable Tech That Women Don’t Really Want
BlogHer has a nicely snarky roundup of six examples of wearable products that are a little unclear about the concept of women. We've covered most of these one time or another, but the self-defense hair clip is new to us. And it's nice to have these examples gathered in one post. … [Read more...]
Dept. of Bad Ideas: Glass Sex App
So here's this story about a London Glass Hackathon, in which a winning entry involves getting two people wearing Glass to make the beast with two backs, record the encounter, upload it to the cloud, and -- get this -- each participant then watches the event from the other's perspective. The recordings are purged after five hours. What could possibly go wrong? … [Read more...]