A few weeks ago, TomTom unveiled its brand-spanking new Spark GPS fitness watch lineup at IFA 2015. Most notably, one of the company’s biggest pushes with their latest lineup is music, boasting 3GB of memory (enough for 500 or so songs) which allows wearers…

Swimming from one end of a pool to the other in a straight line is fairly easy. Doing the same in an open body of water or lake, not so much. With the absence of lanes, swimmers and triathletes tend to find themselves zig-zagging through the water, wasting…

As many of us know all too well, injuries to the hand and wrist are fairly common among children. Making matters worse, rehabilitation exercises tend to be just as demotivating as they are monotonous. So wouldn’t it be nice if there was a much easier…

“The ŌURA ring may well be the first sleep tracker that works. I met the founder, and backed their Kickstarter,” Tim O’Reilly recently tweeted in response to the revolutionary wellness computer’s newly-launched campaign.

Although…

Aside from the pocket protector, the wristwatch has become a staple for any true geek. And we’re not just talking about any ordinary wrist-adorned device, it has to be unique — the dorkier, the better. So whether you're a businessman, an athlete or an…

There are still 4.5 billion people without access to the Internet. Bain & Company, the global management consulting firm, suggests that this represents by far the largest opportunity of the next decade. There is now widespread agreement—along with…

I had the privilege of visiting UNICEF’s global procurement hub last week, a quite extraordinary experience. Based at the port in Copenhagen, the state of the art facility was donated by the Danish government and covers over 20,000 square metres – the…

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There was a great buzz at the Wearable Technology show in London this week.  With exhibitors from across the wearable market we got to see a great range of devices and technologies on show, and of course many based on ARM technology.

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I think this must be around my 16th year attending Mobile World Congress, a flagship event that has tracked the ups and downs of the mobile industry through revolutions like early GSM phones through the '3G bubble' and into the mobile broadband and smartphone…

The Rufus Cuff is an advanced wearable device with a revolutionary new take on wrist real estate. With a beautiful 3-inch wide screen, radical design, and reimagined form factor, the Rufus Cuff ends the era of the watch and ushers in the Wrist Commun…

Here at ARM we are passionate about wearable technology and are excited to be working right across the industry with the network of ARM partners to enable the next generation of wearable devices.  A lot has happened in the wearable devices space during…

In most western societies the average age of the population is rising steadily (in Japan its 44, in Nigeria, 19) so the issue of elder care is a looming problem.  As we age we need regular medication and fall victim to many medical challenges and one…

Its hard to pinpoint exactly when the wearables revolution really started but one good data point might be the funding of the Pebble watch on Kickstarter in May of 2012:

In the annals of tech innovation I see this as a tipping point in the classic sense…

Good news for those basketball players looking to hone their hoop skills, a new coach has officially arrived. Sure, professional, collegiate and other competitive leagues have their ways to tracking and analyzing shot stats and performance data; however…

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You'll remember that at the Smart Fabrics Workshop at the end of November, there was someone from ARM poking a camera around and asking you for interviews.

Well here is the end result! We could not use all of the footage unfortunately…

Our friends at ifixit always do a great job in terms of giving you an inside look at some of the higher profile mobile and wearable devices. However, in recent weeks some new devices have emerged which have not hit the ifixit radar just yet. We wanted…

In the exciting and fast paced area of wearable tech ARM and its partners are excited to be leading the way in enabling ultra small, stylish and robust devices that integrate into our everyday lives.  Fitness and wellbeing are important areas and Samsung…

Following on from its launch a few months back, Sparkfun have got hold of a Microsoft Band and have taken a look inside.

Microsoft Band is a stylish wrist based wearable device that integrates multiple sensors such as heart rate, activity tracking, sleep…

Recently in China wearable devices have paved the way for disruptive innovation in the market, armed with low prices and new services similar to the comparably mature smartphone market. After the release of smartwatches from the leading companies such…

During my presentation at the November 2014 e-Textile workshop in Nottingham Trent University I mentioned a small mbed development platform "about the size of a (largish) button" that might be interesting for prototyping electronics integration with garment…

A writepaper 'Overcoming the Size and Power Trade off in Wearable Designs' is posted on AnandTech, it outlines how Freescale and ARM are working together to deliver market-leading semiconductor solutions for wearable devices.

You can read this…

Chinese Version中文版：可穿戴设备WaRP速度

As Wearables Week comes to a close I got to talk to Sujata Neidig and Robert Thompson from the Freescale MCU group about their plans for this market. Their take was in line with what we have heard others say and that wearables…

Chinese Version 中文版：您昨晚睡得好吗？

Every night before going to bed, I make sure I am accompanied by one thing; my sleep tracker. Every toss and every turn, the moments I am dreaming, the length of my sleep, and the time I am disturbed by the cat jumping on…

Chinese Version 中文版：全新可穿戴设备 Kickstarter 产品：Pip - 一款适用于猫狗的 GPS 和活动追踪器

In support of ARM Wearables Week, I browsed Kickstarter for active ARM-based wearable campaigns and it wasn't hard to find one that was using one of our ARM Partner's technology.…