Vergecast: Amazon buys Roomba, non-watch wearables, and the best low-cost(er) phones

Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge Every Wednesday and Friday, The Verge publishes our flagship podcast, The Vergecast, the place our editors make sense of the week’s most vital expertise news. On Wednesdays, editor-at-large David Pierce leads a choice of The Verge’s professional staffers in an exploration of how devices and software program … Read more

Google’s big plans for wearables could include workouts from your TV

You would possibly be capable to view Wear OS or Fitbit knowledge on the Google TV throughout a exercise beginning subsequent 12 months. | Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Google has but to launch its first smartwatch, however the firm might already be engaged on the subsequent steps for its wearable plans. According … Read more

This fabric can generate electricity from your movements to power wearables

Scientists on the Nanyang Technological University, (NTU) Singapore have developed a know-how that can create a stretchable and waterproof fabric that can generate vitality from your physique movements. The researchers envision that this fabric can be used to cost small wearable digital units like digital watches and health bands. The researchers created a proof-of-concept, which … Read more