Fitbit CEO and co-founder James Park has revealed that the company wants to launch its own wearable app store. Speaking in an interview at CES, Park said he wanted to launch a dedicated store “as soon as possible” and that building one would be helpful for employers and health care companies that use Fitbit’s fitness trackers for corporate wellness programs. “There are so many different applications [our partners] want to write,” Park said, “from fitness-related ones to pill reminder applications. And we don’t have the support in place for that right now, or any software infrastructure on our devices...

Shenzen-based company Coollang has been in the business of making smart tennis and badminton sensors and now it’s turning its attention to smart clothing. Its first range, which includes a sports bra and a running suit are embedded with sensors that are said to be able to deliver heart rate data and recognise motion. So it’ll know when you’re doing a set of push-ups or working on those abs with some crunches. Additionally, it also promises to analyse your external environment monitoring temperature, air quality and humidity. There’s no details on pricing just yet, but here’s hoping it’s more affordable...

It’s been a crazy few days in the tech world. CES has been taking place over in Las Vegas and there has been plenty of cool new wearable tech announced at the expo. For all the major news from the show, check out our dedicated news page. For all the smaller stories, and a few juicy rumours, read on. And finally is where we mop everything up, getting you fully up to speed. Apple Watch Series 3 launch details File this one under ‘Probably’ – Apple is likely to unveil the Apple Watch Series 3 in the third quarter of...

Nestled in a room at the back of Las Vegas’s Venetian hotel, Bragi wasn’t at CES to show off a new product; what it had was much more exciting. No, it’s not bringing Spike Jonze’s Her to life (yet), but it is making a big step forward in smart audio that will dramatically change the way the Dash hearable works. The Dash already has an audio passthrough which lets you have a conversation while keeping your music playing, but Bragi is soon to push this further with 360-degree 3D audio. On the table in front of me sat a pair...

What’s that – you thought launching 100 wearables in a single year wasn’t going to be possible? Fossil laughs in your face, having in fact hit almost 150 SKUs in the end, and in 2017 it’s doubling down with a plan to get to 300. Fossil Group announced this at CES, where it showed off Misfit’s first smartwatch, Vapor, and revealed some new wearables that will be launching at the start of the year. First up, Fossil is bolstering its line of Q watches with the new Q Accomplice, a classic looker that comes in the slimmest Q hybrid case...