Useful workout functions include an optical sensor for heart rate measurement, along with bearing, altitude/barometric pressure, and temperature sensors, and an accelerometer for step counting. These five sensors help to keep you in close touch of your current activity in… Read More ›
Smartwatches
The Apple Watch Solar Face
The Solar Dial consists of a 24-hour dial with 12 (noon) at the top and 24 (midnight) at the bottom. An hour hand moves once around the dial per day, and attached to the hour hand is miniature representation of… Read More ›
Tech where you don’t expect it
It’s easy to presume that the Apple Watch is the king of wrist tech, but look a little deeper (and much cheaper) and the Casio G-Shock GW-M5610-1ER offers a great deal. 1/ Satellite time keeping makes for to the second… Read More ›
The G-Shock GSQUAD. Finally!
As well as all the above sensory trackers, the Casio G-Shock GBD-H1000 will also be able to give you a VO2 max estimate, evaluate training status and fitness level and measure training load as well as recovery time. It would… Read More ›
It Only Took Apple 5 Years to Dominate this 265-Year-Old Industry
Watches had been around for a long time before we started wearing Apple’s version, but it only took a few years for the Apple Watch to become the most popular wearable timepiece on earth. That’s according to a new report… Read More ›
Love the Apple Watch, sold the Apple Watch, stopped all tracking
My recent couple of months with the Apple Watch taught me a lot about what it can do, what I want and how I should be approaching my life. Yes, that sounds awfully over the top, but bear with me… Read More ›
The Apple Watch is so good I need to sell it
The Apple Watch has proved to be a brilliant companion for me and one that I find disturbing because it is killing my one material passion which is real watches. When it comes to importance my family wins every time,… Read More ›
Observe the Apple Watch
I was watching a game show on TV the other day with one presenter and six contestants. I happened to notice that the presenter was wearing an Apple Watch and a few minutes later I realised that five of the… Read More ›
$10,000 for 5 Garmins
Garmin’s MARQ line was designed to bridge the gap between highly functional smartwatches and luxury timepieces made with high-end materials. And for those who’ve struggled with choosing which design to splurge $1,500+ on, Garmin has now packaged almost the entire… Read More ›
Fossil’s Hybrid HR smartwatches
When you click into one of these apps, the watch hands move to point to 9 and 3, so they’re horizontal, and then the information displays above and below them. It works, but it’s awkward. Worse: it means that very… Read More ›