Category Archives: Gadget

A smartphone is a standard piece of equipment that allows a person to organize his or her daily life. People use these devices to maintain contact through phone calls and texts. They keep in touch with friends and colleagues through social media. Increasingly, people use their devices for entertainment such as streaming videos, movies and [View Full Post]

It’s safe to say VO2 Max is all the rage in wearable tech. It’s been a focus of high-end sports watches for a while, but now it’s going mainstream on the latest fitness trackers. Fitbit has chosen it as the basis for its “Cardio Fitness” score on the Fitbit Charge 2, and what was once [View Full Post]

Samsung SmartThings is an intriguing little bugger. It’s hard to see what all the fuss is about when you’re reading about how it works. It’s only through using it for a while that you begin to see its smart home potential. Sure, there’s Apple HomeKit to contend with, Google Home and Amazon’s Echo ecosystem too [View Full Post]

“What’s my workout for today?” I ask my sunglasses. “You’re going two miles on the flat,” they respond. The man walking by shoots me an odd look; other than the earphones, there are no obvious signs I have any technology on me at all. For a short moment I feel silly, but this is exactly [View Full Post]

The Fitbit Flex 2 is a solid fitness tracker option for someone that’s wants to keep monitoring activity simple, affordable and doesn’t want to take it off when they’re jumping in the shower. Fitbit’s first waterproof tracker might not be a groundbreaking device but there’s still a lot to like about it. If you’ve decided [View Full Post]

Both the Samsung Gear Fit2 and Fitbit Charge 2 are well rounded fitness trackers with a few flaws sprinkled in here and there. The first Gear Fit was beastly and lacked a few needed features, which the newer Fit2 has greatly improved on. The same can be said for the updated Charge. That’s why it’s [View Full Post]

If you believe the speculation, Jawbone is having a tough time right now, and we haven’t seen a new fitness tracker from the company since last year. That being said, we’re still fans of its family of Fitbit rivals, with notable mentions for the the UP2, the flagship Jawbone UP3 and the budget-friendly UP Move. [View Full Post]

If we had tried to compile a collection of the best smartwatches for women 12 months ago, it might have consisted of a string of angry emoticons and not much else. Happily times have changed, the industry is starting to catch up and we are in single digits for the number of smartwatches our female [View Full Post]

Those who love the great outdoors have been poorly served by sports watches – until now. Advances in sensors, GPS and battery life means the latest crop of outdoor watches are built for those who spend days in the wild, not just a quick run around the local park. We’re talking about outdoor watches made [View Full Post]

The Fitbit Charge 2 has arrived, one of two new devices from the company, joining the swim-friendly Fitbit Flex 2. The Charge 2 does many of the things you’d expect from a Fitbit device, but also brings a few other interesting new features to the table as well. It’s been a bumper year for Fitbit [View Full Post]