Wearables

Following numerous leaks, including references in beta versions of iOS and tvOS, and photos of LeBron James wearing them in public, Apple-owned Beats has now officially launched its second true wireless earphones – the Studio Buds.

After lots of online chatter and a good many product leaks, Sony has officially revealed the WF-1000XM4 noise-canceling true-wireless in-ear headphones, with a brand new design that's better, smaller and lighter than the company's 2019 earphones.

Google has been readying a new version of its Pixel Buds true wireless earphones for a while now, but now the budget-friendly A-Series has finally been officially revealed – sporting custom drivers, improved connectivity, and access to Assistant.

MIT scientist Yoel Fink has been at the cutting edge of smart textile technology for more than a decade and has just made a significant breakthrough, demonstrating the first ever digital fabric-fiber that can store and process information.

Tech startup Ampere has smartened up the humble sunglasses with Dusk, a pair of shades that change tint on demand via a phone app or a button press. A deluxe model also packs built-in speakers and a microphone for making calls.

The Bugatti brand is usually associated with high-performance automobiles, but it's now attached to three premium smartwatches, too. Bugatti has teamed up with wearables manufacturer VIITA to produce the models, which are being funded on Kickstarter.

Skullcandy has sent us a set of its ridiculously cheap Dime true wireless earbuds. At US$24.99 a pair, you can buy six sets of Dimes for the price of a set of Apple AirPods, and have enough change for a couple coffees. So how well do they do the job?

We saw the first pair of Snapchat Spectacles in 2016, and now Snapchat parent company Snap has come out with its most advanced wearable yet: a pair of glasses with full augmented reality capabilities.

Vienna's Austrian Audio has announced its first open-back circumaural headphones, which have been designed for the mixing and mastering workflows of studio professionals but could also find themselves wrapped around the heads of audiophiles.

Audio gear titan Bose has embarked on its first foray into the hearing aid space, and made quite an entrance with the first direct-to-customer model for adults to be cleared by the Food and Drug Administration.

Though many mobile music lovers are going wireless, audiophiles on the move are more likely to opt for the higher fidelity afforded by cabled ear candy. And it's these listeners that Sennheiser is aiming for with the $1,300 IE 900 flagship earphones.

Any fitness expert will tell you, weightlifting is about more than just lifting weights up and down. A new set of "smart" gloves is designed with that in mind, as they track multiple performance metrics in real real time.