Trawling the halls of the Las Vegas Convention Center during CES is the equivalent of perusing 38 football fields of shoulder-to-shoulder booths featuring endless displays of new technology.
The great news about the internet: you don’t have to actually do that hard work yourself. So here’s a round-up of all the fashion-related and wearable technology news that came out of the week, as written by other people all over the web (I too gave it a miss this year!)…
- How Under Armour plans to turn your clothes into gadgets [Wired]
- Under Armour’s Gemini 2 sneakers are fitness trackers for your feet (as pictured) [Mashable]
- Misfit’s wearables hide their tech behind cool minimalism [Wired]
- Fitbit Blaze launches as $200 Apple Watch competitor [TechRepublic]
- Samsung unveils ‘Smart Suit’ as part of family of wearables [Mashable]
- Samsung made a smart belt that doesn’t suck [The Verge]
- Fossil to roll out 100 wearables [WWD]
- OMbra biometric smart sports bra woos women [BrandChannel]
- L’Oréal patch measures UV exposure [TrendWalk]
- Fashion icon Iris Apfel debuts luxury smart bracelets that track health [MedicalDaily]
- Mira’s new smart jewellery combines tech and high fashion [DigitalTrends]
- Futuristic sneakers tighten automatically, warm your feet and are controlled by an app [MailOnline]
- Casio maps out smartwatch territory in cyclists and hikers [FT]
- SCOTTeVEST’s new jacket lets users cleverly store a laptop inside their clothing [iDigitalTimes]
- Clothes at the CES fashion show actually looked pretty normal [CNET]
- A look at some of the wackiest wearables on show [Wareable]
Image via Mashable