Wearables

Fancy Swiss watchmaker Jaeger-LeCoultre has released a couple of new squillion-dollar, super tiny timepieces – the Snowdrop and the Bangle – featuring a 91-year-old mechanical movement that's still the world's smallest.

Until we tried on a pair of the original 1000X headphones in 2016, we had thought Bose would rule the noise-canceling roost for a long time to come. Now Sony is pushing the envelope yet again with the highly anticipated XM4 noise-canceling headphones.

Mobile music lovers are pretty much spoiled for choice when it comes to true wireless earphones these days, and now there's another option courtesy of Samsung – the much rumored, and quite unusual-looking, Galaxy Buds Live.

We could probably all use a little bit of stress reduction in our lives at the moment, and the new Cove wearable neckband from Feelmore Labs is designed to offer exactly that – through gentle vibrations applied just behind your ears.

It's a neat idea: high quality AptX wireless earbuds that click into the sides of a semi-smart fitness tracking watch to charge, so they're always super-handy. We've spent the last couple of weeks rocking a pre-launch unit of Aipower's Wearbuds Pro.

California's Dreamglass AR has spent several years developing and iterating its AR video glasses, and we've spent the last two weeks playing with the Dreamglass 4K, which effectively puts a pair of large, 3D-capable 1080p screens before your eyes.

Capturing the complexities of the human hand is very tricky. Now engineers have developed a new wearable system that uses thermal sensors to accurately predict hand positions, with potential applications in VR, robotics and translating sign language.

Avantone Pro has released a pair of heavy-looking reference-grade headphones featuring planar driver technology for the promise of "amazing accuracy, high-end detail, clarity, natural bass and response time."

Danish high-end audio gear firm Bang&Olufsen and Swiss sports footwear brand On Running have teamed up for a limited edition pair of B&O's E8 Sport true wireless earphones to help you power through your workout with music.

Last year, LG launched some true wireless earphones that came with a charging case designed to blast the buds with UV light to kill any bacteria. Now the company has brought the latest version of the bug-killing mobile music solution to the US.

Applying the wearable sensors of the future could be as simple as sketching out a shape on your arm, according to new research that investigates the potential for bioelectronics to be applied through graphite pencils and office copy paper.

Dreamworld is back with another pair of augmented reality glasses: the DreamGlass 4K. With an improved 4K resolution and 5G connectivity, these could be the perfect at-home entertainment system now that we're all spending more time indoors.