Dan Rosenbaum

As one of its lesser-heralded announcements at Mobile World Congress this week, Nokia said it would retire the Withings wearables brand this summer, relaunching the products under the Nokia name. Withings has been one of the longer-lasting brands in…

Weather forecasters know that the surest bet is to predict tomorrow; in most cases, it’s going to be more or less like today with a few things changing. Only in rare cases will today be snowing but tomorrow be in the 70s. The further out you go, the…

It’s hardly a secret that MasterCard is hot on wearables; the company’s been talking about it for years and has even published an API to let programmers access its tokenization and payment systems. But earlier this week, MasterCard started to get…

We somehow managed to miss/ignore New York Fashion Week, but there were apparently some interesting designs there related to wearable tech. Stylite’s got a pretty good roundup. CuteCircuit had a nice collection, and Stylite makes a cool point about…

CCS Insight is out with a new report that says the wearables market in 2018 will be 135 million units, up from 9.7 million units last year. The industry, they say, will be dominated by wristware: 87 percent of the devices shipped that year will be…

Nielsen is out with its latest survey about who’s interested in wearable technology. Not a ton of surprises: 16 percent of Americans own some kind of wearable tech gear, and half of them are between 18 and 34 years old. Seventy-five percent of them…

My old and good friend Tristan Louis put up a blog post the other day, worrying about how wearables will inevitably wear away at the social fabric. He cites Vint Cerf (inventor of the IP protocol that runs the Internet) and Scott Heiferman, founder…