Wearables & Gadgets

I will never forget the day my iPod Classic died. He had just started working on Postmedia's now-defunct Canada.com publication. I got up from my desk to get a glass of water, and unfortunately, on the way to the kitchen, my iPod Classic fell out of its back pocket onto the floor, causing its hard drive to be completely unresponsive. At the time, I didn't think much of this incident as I had already started to change my music by listening to Rdio and then finally Spotify. Still, every now and then when I see Apple's classic portable music player, I get nostalgic for the time when we actually walked around with thousands of MP3s in our pockets. As a result, whenever a story comes up involving a modified version of the classic Apple iPod, it always piques my interest. Although we ha...

Apple continued to dominate the global wireless headphone market in 2020, as the tech giant accounted for nearly 50 percent of the market. A new report from Strategy Analytics reveals that the wireless headphone market experienced growth of nearly 90 percent last year. “Although the pandemic decelerated demand briefly during the first half of the year, sales recovered strongly during the second half. Working from home benefited the entire Bluetooth headset category in terms of sales volume growth, ”the firm highlights. Xiaomi came in second in terms of global sales and Samsung rounded out the top three. Huawei and Realme came in fourth and fifth respectively. Although Apple dominated the market last year, its share is shrinking ...

The ambitions of Apple's virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) headsets are not dead yet. The tech giant's VR and AR headsets will reportedly be primarily a virtual reality device and could even launch in 2022, according to Bloomberg. Other details suggest that the design of the headphones is similar to Magic jump one and that it is a self-contained unit like Oculus Quest and Quest 2. The device's processor is also expected to be more powerful than the current M1 Mac chip, which in theory would allow it to be capable of high-end AR / VR experiences that only connected headphones can run at the moment. The report also says that the current prototype is made of fabric and will include a prescription lens holder. This wou...