I’ve reviewed quite a few smart rings over the years, and while I love checking out new designs and new features, I always ended up shelving the ring in my review sample cabinet. Not because I didn’t like them, but because wearing a smart ring AND my Apple Watch felt like overkill. Today we’re going to take a look at the RingConn Gen 3 smart ring. After a month, is it still on my finger? Let’s find out.
BleeqUp is using IFA 2026 to introduce the BleeqUp Rover, a $459 pair of AI sports glasses aimed primarily at cyclists and other outdoor athletes who want first-person video without strapping another camera to their body. The BleeqUp Rover combines a 16-megapixel camera, open-ear audio, activity tracking, voice controls, safety detection, and automated video editing in a 53-gram frame. The concept is ambitious, but the appeal is easy to understand: capture the ride, listen to directions or music, keep tabs on what’s happening around you, and leave some of the post-ride editing to software instead of your evening.
Do you remember back in the early 2010s when Google released Google Glass? Were you like me and thought they were science fiction becoming science fact? Now, jump ahead to the present day and hold on to your socks! XREAL is launching its next-generation spatial computing glasses, the AURA. The XREAL AURA is a collaborative effort between XREAL, Google, and Qualcomm Technologies to deliver wired XR (extended reality) glasses with built-in Android XR and Gemini integration, powered by Qualcomm’s latest Snapdragon Reality Elite Platform chipset.
Many options exist to quantify your health. Apps and wearables can track your sleep, dissect your diet, count your steps, and generally read the tea leaves on whether you’re optimizing your fitness and health. The hard part is that fitness devices are often one-size-fits-all, and it can be tough to tell whether a running watch will help with weightlifting or whether your step counter is properly tracking your heart rate. Luna Band takes a different approach, with LifeOS customizing the experience to each person’s needs, body, and goals.
Smart rings have become an interesting alternative to smartwatches for people who want health and wellness tracking without wearing a screen on their wrist. At IFA 2026, Circular is taking that idea further with two new models: the Circular Ring 3 Pro and Circular Ring 3 Slim. The new rings combine health tracking with NFC contactless payments, letting users track their wellness while leaving their phone and wallet in their pocket. Circular is also bringing back one of its more distinctive features: haptic vibrations that can provide discreet alerts directly from the ring.
Plaud is moving its AI note-taking hardware off the desk and into your ears. The Plaud One Explorer Edition is a $249.99 pair of half-in-ear wireless earbuds with a recording case, built-in 4G LTE, and Plaud’s new Agent software, giving it ambitions well beyond music and phone calls. It can record meetings, calls, conversations, and spoken ideas, then transcribe, summarize, and turn that material into follow-up work. The pitch is simple enough: if much of your work begins with conversation, Plaud wants those conversations to become the starting point for whatever comes next.
Summer heat is no joke, and lately it seems worse than ever, especially with Florida’s humidity making time outdoors downright miserable. My preferred strategy is really simple: stay inside from June through September. When I do venture out, I move from my air-conditioned house to my air-conditioned car and then to another air-conditioned destination. Unfortunately, some situations still require being outside. Wouldn’t it be nice to bring air conditioning with you? With the TORRAS COOLiFY Cyber Fold AI Neck Air Conditioner, you almost can. Better yet, it isn’t only for summer—it can also help keep you warm when temperatures drop.
RayNeo is heading to IFA 2026 with a smart glasses lineup that’s less interested in finding one pair to do everything than in splitting the job three ways. The RayNeo iO Smart Glasses focus on lightweight, glanceable information and translation, while the RayNeo GT and GT Max aim at private big-screen entertainment. A new Pocket TV Pro supplies Google TV and Dolby Vision playback for the GT models. Together, the products cover work, travel, presentations, gaming, and streaming, though each asks you to accept a different balance of weight, visibility, battery life, and price.
It’s safe to say that smart glasses are gaining momentum. We’re constantly looking for ways to refine the noise around us into something usable, and the allure of distilling all that into something you can easily see in front of you is irresistible. Halliday has refined their vision with the G2 AI glasses, their second round of smart glasses, and they think they’ve cracked the code to make the experience smarter and smoother than ever!
Samsung launched a gaggle of new devices at its summer Unpacked event in London today. There was a lot of “new” at the event, including some new branding, some new features, and even a new form factor. All told, six new devices are coming in just two weeks at a variety of price points. Samsung is launching the Galaxy Z Fold 8 Ultra, the Galaxy Z Fold 8, the Galaxy Z Flip 8, the Galaxy Watch Ultra 2, and the Galaxy Watch 9 in two sizes — 44mm and 40mm. Here are the highlights from the event.
I like recording the notable and not-so-notable moments of my life. I’ve done this in handwritten journals since I was a kid. In the past few years, I’ve realized that I would rather save daily memories digitally because I can include lots of photos, and I can type so much faster than I can write on pen and paper. I’ve used digital journaling apps and cool trip recording apps like Time Atlas, and now I am excited to tell you all about the Looki L1 Wearable Lifelogging camera. Yes, it uses AI, but what it can do with AI is…
If there’s one constant in the world of fitness gadgets, it’s that someone is always offering you optimizations. It can be as simple as something like fat grips to work your forearms while you lift, or as complex as connected wearables and heart rate monitors designed to keep your workout in a precise effort zone. Sometimes these are genuinely great improvements, and sometimes they’re just window dressing. We were offered the chance to try the PEPPER EMS Suit, which leverages electromagnetic stimulation to maximize your workout in less time. Is it a winner? Let’s check it out!
Everybody sleeps. Duh. And yet, everybody is unique in how well—or how badly—they sleep. I tend to sleep rather well (and heavily), but occasionally I have bouts of sleeplessness. When that happens, I resort to background noise on my clock radio, a floor fan blowing in my face, or even music via my trusty Apple AirPods Pro earbuds. The point is that everyone has tried-and-true tricks that work for them, with varying degrees of success. Enter the Fitnexa SomniPods 3 earbuds. These light, tiny wonders can help those with sleep issues, but they are not perfect.
Gentle Monster intelligent eyewear is moving from rumor-adjacent curiosity to something more concrete, with Google revealing a first design at Google I/O 2026 today. Built in partnership with Google and Samsung, the upcoming collection will start with audio glasses that combine speakers, microphones, a camera, and Google Gemini‘s voice-assisted help. The idea is familiar but still tricky: make wearable tech useful enough to justify wearing it, without making you look like you’ve wandered out of a beta test. The first models are expected later this fall, with the full collection arriving later in 2026.
The Amazfit T-Rex Ultra 2 might as well have been made for me, and I’m still not sure that’s a wholly good thing. Don’t get me wrong, it nails everything it set out to do, but the first thought I had when I pulled it from the box was simple: LARGE. This is a 51mm, Grade 5 titanium-topped statement piece with a bright 1.5″ AMOLED display, and it looks like it means business from across the room. For bigger folks like me, that “finally feels normal” fit is a win. For smaller wrists, it’s going to be a love-it-or-leave-it situation.
Motorola used Lenovo Tech World 2026 to introduce the motorola razr fold, a new foldable phone that signals where the company thinks phones are headed next. This was not just a hardware moment. Motorola also rolled out a unified artificial intelligence platform, teased a wearable AI companion, and showed off a FIFA-themed razr that will test the willpower of soccer fans everywhere. Taken together, the announcements paint a picture of Motorola aiming for devices that work together quietly in the background instead of constantly asking for your attention.
When technology collides with medicine, the result is often incremental progress that quietly improves existing tools. Every so often, though, something arrives that feels less like an upgrade and more like a category shift, the kind that makes you double-check whether it’s actually real. NAOX Technologies appears to be aiming for that second reaction with NAOX LINK, the world’s first FDA-cleared in-ear EEG system. Unveiled at CES 2026, NAOX LINK dramatically shrinks traditional brain-monitoring hardware into a pair of earbuds, while also setting the stage for NAOX WAVE, the company’s upcoming consumer-focused brain-signal platform designed for everyday life.
The Luna Band is stepping into a crowded wearable space with a slightly contrarian attitude. Instead of throwing more charts, rings, and color-coded scores at your wrist, this new band is designed to talk to you when it actually matters. Built by Luna, a rising health tech company focused on human performance, the Luna Band pairs a slim wearable with a voice-led system called LifeOS. The goal is not to make you decode health data at the end of the day, but to help you make better choices while the day is still happening.
I’ve written a lot of reviews for Gear Diary, and this is the first time I’ve been genuinely stumped about how to approach a wearable product. I can confirm the WAVwatch 2.0 works, but does it WORK? If you’re confused, read on, so we can be confused together.
If you’ve ever worn a metal Apple Watch band and thought, “This thing moves about as gracefully as a tank tread,” the new Nomad Stratos band might restore your faith in metal. This is a hybrid band built for real life, not just glossy product photos. It combines the strength and sleekness of titanium with the comfort and give of FKM rubber, which means it looks classy enough for a client meeting but feels relaxed enough for your morning run. Priced at $179 in the US, €179 in Europe, or $259 in Canada, the Stratos is positioned as a premium…
I’m a firm believer that if someone finds a fitness routine that works for them, that’s what matters. I like lifting heavy items; I have friends who prefer to run marathons, but there’s more than one way to get healthy. However, I do draw the line at taking advantage of people who are struggling to get healthy, and when we got this pitch for AlterMe, my jaw dropped.