Wearables
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Smartwatch for children with room for improvement
While a promising concept, the TCL Movetime Family Watch fails to deliver on its potential.
- by Alice Clarke
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Gadgets
The best fitness watch still has something to offer couch potatoes
The Suunto 7 manages to do everything a fitness fiend could ask for, while still being a useful and useable smartwatch for daily wear.
- by Alice Clarke
Apple
Apple Watch Health app cuts through the noise
New app has the power to change how people think about their hearing and whether or not their ears are safe.
- by Alice Clarke
Sleep
Fitbit may track sleep time accurately, but overestimate problems
Small studies have suggested that, while your Fitbit might know when you're asleep, it could think you are having a worse sleep than you are.
- by Mary Ward
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Technology
A classy hybrid watch with just enough smarts
The Steel HR sends data on your activity, exercise and sleep to your phone without a smartwatch's touchscreen or need for constant charging.
- by Tim Biggs
Google buys Fitbit for $3b, raising privacy concerns about personal health data
The deal puts Google in direct competition with Apple and Samsung - and has raised privacy concerns.
- by Matt O'Brien
Mental health
Weight-centric fitness tracking 'may intensify problematic behaviours'
The more features fitness-tracking systems add, the more problematic they become for those vulnerable to eating disorders.
- by Alice Clarke
Gadgets
Fitbit's latest outclassed, outpriced by 2017 Apple Watch
The Versa 2 smartwatch has a longer battery life, sleep tracking and Amazon Alexa, but it still feels lacking.
- by Alice Clarke
Opinion
Gadgets
Kids' banking in the age of contactless payments
My daughter hardly ever sees cash, but a new service is making sure kids can still manage their money with a cheap and cheerful wearable.
- by Peter Wells
Information security
'I would never buy one': Fears raised over security of GPS tracking smartwatch for kids
It's every parent's worst nightmare: discovering the smartwatch tracking device you bought to protect your child could be used instead by a stranger to stalk them.
- by Ben Grubb
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Technology
Fitbit's latest devices don't quite do enough
The Inspire HR and Versa Lite are sleek iterations on existing Fitbits, but with no new or exciting features.
- by Alice Clarke