Tracking

Following in Google's footsteps from just two months ago, Garmin's now dropped a screen-free fitness tracker that's suitable for novices and serious athletes alike. And interestingly, you don't need a subscription for this one.

The Fi Ultra adds T-Satellite with Starlink to a rugged GPS dog tracker, promising live location updates beyond cell coverage, plus sound-and-vibration recall cues, waterproofing and up to five days of battery life.

The90 Gem is a pendant-style wearable that tracks real-time UVA and UVB exposure, using app guidance to personalize sunscreen timing, sun habits and longer-term skin-care decisions beyond generic UV data.

For all the functionality they bring to your wrist, smartwatches really don't hold a candle to the style of an analog wristwatch. Ganance is taking a crack at bringing you the best of both worlds, with a discreet little wearable.

Tracking every rep is no fun, So Fort's new screenless wearable does it for you. It automatically logs sets, reps, rest, tempo, and more while you focus on getting your gym on.

Nobody likes hearing a mosquito somewhere in their bedroom, without being able to see where it is. Well, the Bzigo Iris tracks and highlights mozzies, so you can swat them. It's now 50% cheaper, and doesn't require a Wi-Fi connection.

With help from small tracking gadgets plus the ubiquitous smartphone, we can now keep tabs on our belongings – wherever they may be. Now a startup is crowdfunding a nifty tag that includes an E Ink screen to display contact details and photos in color.

Learning to play piano is a hard slog, and many people – myself included – tend to start well, and then lose momentum before giving up entirely. Roli is hoping to keeping students engaged with a gesture-tracking AI teacher called the Airwave.

Duovox has followed its successful Kickstarter for a military-grade night-vision monocular with a Pro version that promises to bring the hidden darkness into "true full color." The nocturnal adventure gadget is also joined by a teeny smartphone camera.

Mosquitoes are masters of evasion when indoors, seemingly disappearing after you unsuccessfully try to swat them or grab them out of the air. That's where the Bzigo Iris comes in, as it tracks them and shows you where they are.

Samsung has finally pulled back the official curtain on possibly its worst kept secret – the Galaxy Ring. Though there have been a number of similar wearables available from smaller companies for a while, this is the first from a major brand.

Self-driving cars are dependent on sophisticated sensors backed by lots of computing power. A research effort led by China's Tsinghua University is cutting down on computing requirements with a tracking system that only requires a single pixel to do the job.