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The Vi is ambitious by design, and represents a future of intelligent fitness and running devices. We’ve spent a lot of time with her – the AI is female-voiced – and while right now she’s a great tool for casual and newer runners building fitness, she’s lacking some essential features that more serious runners, those chasing new PBs, are going to be looking for. … [Read more...] about The best running gadgets: top fitness tech to help you run better

Like cell phones several years ago, cars are a product category that is suddenly expected to be "smart"—and if you want to be "smart," you need software. Now, as in the early days of smartphones, a bunch of hardware makers are suddenly thrust into the role of having to make software. With practically zero experience, it's no surprise that they do a poor job of it. Seeing the major software companies—namely Google and Apple—once again move in and show the hardware companies how it's done is fascinating, and it's something we want to cover more in the future. Watching both companies leverage their smartphone app store ecosystem is a natural thing for us to cover. … [Read more...] about Keyboards, OSes, pedals, and the other gadgets we liked most in 2015

Although it can track your activity, the Oura is focused on wellness and particularly sleep. It provides you with a simple sleep score each day, but you can delve deeper into your stats to find out all kinds of information about the quality of your rest, from your resting heart rate to how much you moved, all presented on a series of bar charts and graphs. It's crack for sleep and data nerds.  … [Read more...] about The best sleep tracker 2020: top gadgets to record your beauty sleep

Redmi has expanded its product portfolio with the launch of smart band in India today. Redmi smart band comes with more than 50 personalized dials, 24-hour heart rate monitoring sensor and up to 14 days of battery life. Price and availability Redmi smart band is priced at Rs 1,599. The band will go on sale on September 9 at 1pm. It will be available online on Amazon and Mi.com along with Mi Homes and Mi Studios offline stores. The smart band comes in four colour options- Black, Green, Blue and Orange. Redmi Smart Band: Specs Redmi smart band is equipped with a 1.08-inch colour display. The band offers USB direct charging, allowing the band to be charged directly from any USB Type-A port. The company claims that the band offers up to 14-day battery standby time and can charge fully to 100% in 2 hours. The smart band can be paired with devices that support Android 4.4 or above and iOS 9.0 or above. The newly launched device comes with 5 different modes of tracking- outdoor … [Read more...] about Redmi smart band with 1.08-inch display and up to 14 days battery life launched at Rs 1,599

Audio equipment company Bose is soon going to launch its wireless earbuds with a new brand name, claims a report by CNET. As per the report, instead of choosing to name them Noise Cancelling Earbuds 700, the company is going to launch the product with the name as Bose QuietComfort Earbuds. The report further explains that the company last year launched two new true wireless models last year — Earbuds 500 and Earbuds 700 — among which the former got a shipment scheduled for 2020 but the latter were not scheduled to ship yet. The video shows that the QuietComfort Earbuds from Bose are claimed to be "world's most effective" and "breakthrough acoustic innovations" and offer "crisp, clear audio and deep rich bass." They are expected to be available at a price around $250 to compete with the AirPods Pro, claims the report by CNET. For those unaware, back in July, a YouTube video also surfaced online on a channel named Josh Quill in which the YouTuber claims to be unboxing the … [Read more...] about This may be the new name of Bose’s AirPods Pro rivals