Walk into any gym, and you'll find fitness trackers strapped to everyone from protein shake-swilling workout junkies to first-time jazzercisers. Meanwhile, early adopters are dropping their Mickey Mouse collector's edition watches in favor of smartwatches that can deliver messages, Facebook, Twitter and more to your wrist. Even Google Glass, which is still not widely available, continues to make headlines on a regular basis.
It's been almost a month since wearable pioneer Fitbit unveiled a much-needed update to its Charge and Flex ranges, giving them a bunch of aesthetic and functional upgrades in the process. Customers have been able to secure their orders ahead of the loose "fall" release date but from today, anyone itching to get their hands on the new devices can now do so.
China may become the world’s largest wearable customer in 2017, if sales continue to surge as they have in 2016, by 84 percent.
Demand for wearable gadgets hasn’t lived up to the hype, and a report suggests things are only getting worse ahead of the company’s expected Watch reboot