In a race against time, a smartwatch might be the best defense. More specifically, the time concern is the loss of pulse brought on by cardiac arrest. And the defense… Read More
RealWear, a Vancouver, Wash.-based headset maker that serves frontline workers at industrial companies, named Chris Parkinson as CEO. Parkinson has served as RealWear’s CTO since co-founding the company in 2016.… Read More
A new tracking device will let parents know when their kids run away from a caregiver at the playground, where they’ve been during the day, whether they’ve been getting enough… Read More
As a professional basketball player in Montenegro, Nikola Mrvaljevic got the idea that there must be a better way for athletes to train. “Not everybody trains efficiently. We tend to… Read More
It has been nearly two years since Google quietly acquired Senosis Health, a Seattle startup that figured out how to turn ordinary smartphones into monitoring devices to detect pulmonary function,… Read More
The number of tools and gadgets aimed at health has skyrocketed in the past few years. That technology can be a big help to those looking to improve their health,… Read More
Students representing the Global Innovation Exchange are nearing the finish line in a competition to create wearable sensors that can send wireless alerts in threatening situations — even if the… Read More
Dylan Rose was tired of seeing live music through the smartphone screens of fellow concertgoers. The 19-year-old University of Washington student didn’t just set out to solve that problem with… Read More
New York. Paris. Milan. U Dub? When rattling off the fashion epicenters of the world, the University of Washington in Seattle might not exactly run away with your runway expectations,… Read More
Seasoned Major League Baseball managers who think they’ve got a beat on player performance by counting pitches and so forth will soon gain access to more detailed data analysis. The… Read More
The Apple Watch may soon be customizable. At least, that’s what a new patent Apple secured on Tuesday seems to suggest. That patent, initially discovered by AppleInsider, is for “modular… Read More
Taking off your gloves on a ski lift to deal with a smartphone or some other device in your pocket is a recipe for spending the rest of the day… Read More
Tech investor Brad Feld remembers his first call with Fitbit CEO James Park. It was in 2010, during a major snowstorm at his home in the Colorado mountains, and he was… Read More
Thalmic Labs, a six-year-old wearable technology company based out of Ontario, Canada, announced $120 million in Series B funding today. The Amazon Alexa Fund, Intel Capital, and Fidelity Investments Canada… Read More
Fitbit shares surged to $30.40 at the opening bell of the company’s first day on the market, as the wearable technology company made its initial public offering. The price settled to… Read More
Salesforce is one of the dominant players in the emerging cloud market, and the San Francisco-based company’s profile has been boosted even further with the recent news that it could… Read More
May has arrived in Seattle, and that means the sunshine and the May Day rioters have arrived. It also means the annual GeekWire Awards are just around the corner —… Read More
Can’t wait for your Apple Watch to arrive? No worries, why not make your own? Thanks to Instructables, you can make this amazing Apple II Watch, a total throwback to the… Read More
The Apple Watch will have support from a wide variety of apps later this month, if a leaked letter from Tim Cook is any indication. 9to5Mac reported that Apple’s CEO… Read More
Wearables are arguably the most talked-about tech of 2015. Apple is dominating the recent conversation with its Apple Watch announcements, but there are countless other companies making fitness trackers, body cameras,… Read More
The hotly anticipated Apple Watch is just one wearable, but its high profile will help boost the wearables market overall for years to come. That’s the latest report from International… Read More
For three years, I have literally been joined at the hip with my wearable. Seriously, it clips right to my waistband. I’m a non-conforming conformist, one might say, refusing to… Read More
Microsoft this morning issued the first major software update for its 3 month-old Microsoft Band fitness tracker and smartwatch — including a new tile for cyclists and a much-anticipated web dashboard that… Read More
LAS VEGAS – CES is bursting at the seams with wearable and health-tracking technology for adults, but a couple of companies we came across are bringing wearable technology to babies… Read More
Everywhere you turn at CES, people are talking (and showcasing) wearables. But what does one of the world’s largest makers of sunglasses — whose hip products are worn on the… Read More
What’s ahead for 2015 in the tech industry? Members of the GeekWire news team offer their perspectives with this look ahead the key stories and trends we’ll be tracking in the coming year, with… Read More
Talk about smart watches is all the rage among tech pundits and enthusiasts, especially since the announcement of the Apple Watch last year. But not everyone is convinced they’re going to… Read More
Hello, humans. My name is Bear. I’m a dog and not much of a geek, but I’m told that wearable technology is all the rage right now. My owner wants to… Read More
Connecting devices is becoming easier and cheaper, enabling the development of a new frontier in technology — the Internet of Things. Tech titans like Apple, Google, and Microsoft are already in the… Read More
Follow-up: $199 Microsoft Band launches as flagship device for new Microsoft Health data platform Who would have thought that Google and Apple would reveal Microsoft’s new wearable device before Microsoft did?… Read More
