Wearables Archive

Garmin platforms suffered a multi-hour outage this morning. During that time, workouts captured by Garmin watches couldn’t be synced to fitness services like Strava, maps couldn’t be downloaded to Garmin bike computers, spouses couldn’t be alerted to new live actives, etc etc.

Chamelo’s color-changing and tint-adjusting sunglass lenses are back — only now, they support prescriptions.

They include 2-in-1 and 3-in-1 OntheGo folding chargers that feature a 15-watt Qi2 magnetic charging pad and an Apple Watch pad with 5-watt output to AirPods. The 3-in-1 supports Apple Watch fast charging.

Another day another Garmin watch iteration. The Instinct 3 is a ruggedized GPS smartwatch available with an OLED display — $450 to $500 — or long-lasting MIP display with an integrated solar charging lens — $400 to $450 — in 45mm and 50mm sizes.

I ranked the Circular Ring Slim dead last in my smart ring battle royale. When I heard their CES 2025 announcement, I was cautiously optimistic that a redemption arc was in the making with the Circular Ring 2. Now that I’ve seen and tried it, I’m even more hopeful. The hardware is such an improvement — all that’s left to see is if the software is too when it launches.

I’m a skeptic when it comes to real-time translation tech, but I’m intrigued by the Timekettle W4 Pro buds and the newly announced Babel OS. You can create a custom lexicon for specific words like names, industry jargon, locations, and most importantly, slang! We’ll have to see how well it works, but it acknowledges one of my biggest pet peeves with translation tech: how fast language evolves.

The big update is a new integration with Strava, but there’s also a new roster of Time to Walk guests, musical Artist Spotlights, and training programs. Including one for pickleball. Yes, pickleball.