Wearables

Consumer Tech 7 min Meta Disabled Cameras on Thousands of Smart Glasses With Tampered Lights Covering the capture light temporarily locks the camera and reverses when the tape comes off. New hardware det... AM Amelia Wong 3 Sep Privacy & Data 6 min Norway's Minister Described a Use Rule. The Coverage Called It a Ban. Karianne Tung says the aim is to stop the equipment being used to monitor people in public. That describes a c... PR Priya Nair 2 Sep Consumer Tech 7 min Meta Fixed the Smart Glasses LED Bypass. The LED Was Never the Problem. Covering the capture light mid-recording no longer works, which closes a real loophole. Deliberate concealment... AM Amelia Wong 29 Aug Consumer Tech 6 min Wetherspoon Did Not Ban Smart Glasses. It Banned Filming With Them. More than 800 pubs, and the rule is about the recording rather than the device. That distinction is more durab... AM Amelia Wong 11 Aug Health & Wellness 8 min Researchers Push Back on the FDA's 2026 Wellness-Device Guidance — What It Means for Wearable Owners A Nature Biomedical Engineering Comment published on 23 June 2026 argues that the FDA's 2026 General Wellness... AM Amelia Wong 2 Jul Health & Wellness 7 min Your Fitness Tracker Wants to Be a 'Health Platform' Now — What That Means for Your Wallet and Your Data Oura, Whoop, Garmin and others are turning rings and watches into subscription 'health platforms' built around... AM Amelia Wong 11 Jun Health & Wellness 4 min The Oura Ring 5 is here, smaller and screenless, as smart rings have a moment Oura has launched its fifth-generation smart ring: 40 per cent smaller than the last one, US$399, and shipping... AM Amelia Wong 1 Jun