Wearable

We still don’t know much about the AR glasses Samsung is building with Google, but Jay Kim, Samsung’s EVP of the company’s mobile division, tells CNBC the device will connect to your phone and have a built-in camera at “your eye level.”

The Climacool sneakers I reviewed last year are now available in an all-white colorway, complete with ghost stripes and white laces. The $160 Climacool Laced kicks are 15 percent lighter, thankfully, and available to buy worldwide from adidas.com and via the Adidas app. The $140 slip-ons are back in stock too.

Swiss sportswear brand On has opened a new factory in South Korea expanding the manufacturing capacity for the company’s LightSpray sneakers partly made by robots spraying fibers. Previously only available to elite athletes, the expansion will help make the company’s new $280 LightSpray Cloudmonster 3 Hyper shoes available to everyone when they launch globally on April 16th.

The Oura Advisor chatbot will soon be able to offer smart ring wearers an AI model that it says covers “the full reproductive health spectrum, from early menstrual cycles through menopause.” Of course, reproductive health data is sensitive, particularly in places like the US — you might want to think carefully before handing it over.

The team is constructing the Human Flatus Atlas, bringing modern wearable monitors to bear on digestive health, measuring the frequency and intensity of farts. The team even had to create an artificial butt that could pass gas on command while developing the prototype. According to the Wall Street Journal:

Amid reports that Meta is preparing to release a smartwatch later this year, one Verge commenter has already figured out what the social media giant is going to do with all that new data.

Remember when EssilorLuxottica said it sold 2 million and would hit 10 million a year by 2027? 10M seems well within reach. “In 2025, we sold more than 7 million units of AI glasses, posting exponential growth,” said CEO Francesco Milleri. Prices may stay high in the short term, though, they hinted on the earnings call.

Sega has partnered with Seiko to make a limited edition 65th anniversary watch with a subtle Sonic the Hedgehog motif, though he may not be the best character to associate with a timepiece.

The two companies have collaborated on a new timepiece commemorating Sega’s 65th anniversary last year. Available in a black or silver finish the watch’s face features the hours in a font matching the Sega logo found below Seiko’s, with a Sonic silhouette can be found on a subdial. They’re 71,500 yen each, or around $458.

This is a great read about Runna — a popular running app that was bought by Strava last year. While many runners swear by it, several reported injuries from using the AI-powered running coach. (Including yours truly.) Runna’s now rolling out easier programs, which I’m going to start testing once this horrible cold snap lets up.

This Politico story is a fascinating deep dive into Oura cozying up to the government. What caught my eye is a tidbit that Oura is lobbying lawmakers for a “digital health screener” device classification process that would sidestep the more intensive FDA clearance process for medical devices.

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That’s according to Seong Cho, head of marketing for mobile, during today’s quarterly earnings call. Discussing plans for 2026, he mentioned XR form factors including “next-generation AR glasses.” Samsung has been developing the glasses with Google as a follow-up to Galaxy XR, but this is the first we’ve heard of a release window.

Tennis’s biggest stars keep being asked to take their Whoop trackers off at the Australian Open. The wearable is permitted by the sport’s governing bodies, but banned by the tournament, prompting frustration from player (and, um, paid Whoop ambassador) Aryna Sabalenka: