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In Pictures: A visual history of the smartwatch

With the impending release of the Apple Watch, the smartwatch market is set to take off in 2015. Here's how it got to this point.

In Pictures: A visual history of the smartwatch
In Pictures: The wearables of Mobile World Congress.

MWC stands for 'more wearables coming'.Wearable tech was big at CES, and now the mania continues at Mobile World Congress. This week’s line-up in Barcelona has included plenty of weird-looking things to put on your head - but we ignored all the headgear to focus on stuff normal people might want to actually wear.

In Pictures: The wearables of Mobile World Congress.
In Pictures: 2014 by the numbers - Predictions and projections

Cloud, mobility, Big Data, SDN, wearables -- see what’s in store for 2014

In Pictures: 2014 by the numbers - Predictions and projections

News about Wearables

IBM's hub for wearables could have you out of the hospital faster

By Martyn Williams | 15 February, 2017 10:58

Researchers at IBM have developed a hub for wearables that can gather information from multiple wearable devices and share it with a doctor, potentially cutting down on the time patients need to spend in a hospital.
Oakley and Intel pack a fitness coach into new pair of smart glasses

By Agam Shah | 22 September, 2016 06:30

For wearables to succeed, many people believe technology should be inconspicuous, not popping out and making a fashion statement of its own. Google Glass may have gotten it wrong, and Oakley and Intel may have done it right with the new Radar Pace.
Samsung's Tizen 3.0 to take on Android and iOS starting in September

By Agam Shah | 29 April, 2016 06:36

Many alternative mobile operating systems like Firefox have fallen by the wayside while Android and iOS continue to dominate, but Samsung's Tizen has survived.
HP wearable effort turns serious as new Titan smartwatches go on sale

By Agam Shah | 04 March, 2016 03:39

Is the wearables market just a hobby for HP, as the company claims? As new smartwatches - like Titan's Juxt - keep rolling out, that doesn't seem to be the case.
For future wearables, the network could be you

By Stephen Lawson | 03 September, 2015 03:45

UC San Diego researchers have developed a magnetic-field network to link wearable devices through the user's body.

Features about Wearables

Apple arrival triggers 170 per cent wearable market growth as “astounding demand” continues

By James Henderson | 22 June, 2015 06:09

“The demand for basic wearables, those that do not run third party apps, has been absolutely astounding."
Time for disties to shine as Apple Watch triggers innovation in Australian wearables market

By James Henderson | 27 May, 2015 03:08

Apple Watch set to spur greater innovation from other players in the industry and drive new partnerships amongst vendors and distributors.
The 23 top Apple Watch apps you should get

By Michael deAgonia | 26 April, 2015 02:25

With more than 2200 Apple Watch apps already available, finding the best ones for new Watch owners isn't easy.
How Samsung and Apple stack up in the race to dominate digital health

By Wes Novack | 06 June, 2014 05:29

There is no love lost between Samsung and Apple. The archrivals continue to trade blows in court and in the consumer electronics market, and it seems the next frontier for their competition is in the health and fitness space.
A year with Pebble: What I've learned from the smartwatch

By Jason Snell | 07 February, 2014 14:15

As it turns out, 2013 probably wasn't the Year of the Smartwatch, given that none of the wearable tech released last year set the world on fire. But 2013 was the year I got my first smartwatch, as the Pebble shipped in January, and, as one of the device's Kickstarter backers, I received mine a month later.