For the last few years, since wearables became small enough to be convenient, the wrist has been the most frequent commercial battleground. There are, of course, hundreds of fitness bands and trackers that sit on your wrist because, well, people are used to wearing things on their wrists. But is that really the best place? Maybe not. The site FashNerd makes a strong case … [Read more...]
Reuters: Apple in the Hearing Aid Business?
iWhat? Somehow, a Reuters article saying that Apple was teaming up with the Danish company GN ReSound to make an iPhone-compatible hearing aid missed most people's attention. The story's not entirely coherent, but it seems that Apple went shopping for partners to make hearing aids that operate on Bluetooth's 2.4GHz band. Most competing companies use lower-frequency … [Read more...]