Wearable activity trackers like Fitbit are one of the fastest-growing categories in personal tech. At the same time, insurance companies are looking for ways to reward good behavior. Now the trendy American health insurance start-up Oscar Health has teamed up with activity tracker Misfit Flash to offer incentives for active living. Members who...
The mass adoption of texting as a major form of communication has brought with it a whole range of new linguistic trends and tools like clipped sentences and emoticons. But as great as communicating by mobile is, it has until now been unable to replace authentic human touch. Enter Hug, an app that allows smartphone users to send each other “...
Augmented reality (AR) goggles and technologies are now flying out of the tech sector fast and furiously. Several are designed for sports, like headsets for skiers and boarders that are designed to be worn while hurtling down snowy slopes. RideOn, one such device developed by a group of Israeli entrepreneurs, raised over $110,000 through...
Remember Ask Jeeves, the decade-old search engine with a butler mascot who offered to personally assist you with your query? Fast forward to 2015 and that metaphoric butler is taking on concrete forms in the guise of in-home robotic assistants. One potential heavy-hitter in this field will be Amazon Echo, one of the first widely-available...
If you are the type who reads WikiTrend you have probably tried interacting with Siri, the “personal assistant” included with products using Apple’s iOS. You probably agree too that Siri is far from perfect, has its share of issues, and not as good as it should be. But these are early days. Siri and other voice-recognition apps and appliances...
We are noticing a trend in which companies across the industrial spectrum are lining up to offer the voice-activated services that futuristic films have been promising us for years. The goal of this technology is to offer us as much functionality as possible, for the least effort imaginable. Just say the word and it's done. One example of this...
Creative collective Brain Dead has teamed up with Union Los Angeles to release a collaborative T-shirt dubbed "Bunny F*ck." The tee is made from 100% ringspun cotton and sports vibrant colored graphics on the front while on the back of the piece there is creative embossed detailing that boldly states "Union is Brain Dead." In conjunction with...
Early adopters embrace the Apple Watch as a fashionable and convenient way to stay connected and quickly accomplish important tasks. But even its strongest boosters worry that it might become just another device you need to worry about charging. So it should come as no surprize that one of the first third-party accessories to gain traction is...
Virtual reality (VR) will be one of the biggest stories of 2016, what with the public launch of the Oculus Rift headset and avalanche of software that is sure to follow. Gaming is leading the technology, offering immersive experiences for shoot-em-ups and other virtual world experiences. But the real way that VR will change our world will be in...
A large number of apps, websites and tech gadgets we're seeing lately all share one thing in common: they help us make sense of the world around us. They give us information about the things we interact with and they make us smarter by making us wiser. If you’re a wine drinker you’ve probably wished at some point or another that you were a...