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News, reviews and features on hearables, smart earbuds and smart headphones from the likes of Apple, Google, Amazon, Bragi, Here One, Samsung, Sony and more.

The smartphone's days are numbered, so Bragi is building a smart human instead

Bragi is building the high-res human

And it's using AR glasses and smart patches to get there
Bragi Dash is getting real-time translation skills and more

Bragi Dash can now do real-time translation

The original hearable also makes improvements in the sports tracking department
Bragi Dash Pro is the first custom-made hearable, and it can translate languages

Bragi reveals custom-made Dash Pro

Automatic activity detection and '4D menu' join the new features
Kyocera's headphones want to help track your health from within the ear

Kyocera's headphones can track dehydration

This prototype sensor can detect dehydration and blood pressure
Under Armour Sport Wireless Heart Rate review

Under Armour Wireless Heart Rate

Heart rate tracking in-ear headphones miss the monitoring mark
Fitbit's headphones are happening and here's our first picture

Fitbit's first headphones leak in pic

Fitbit's first smartwatch set to be joined by $150 in-ears
LifeBEAM’s AI coach Vi has arrived, and you might actually want to be her friend

LifeBEAM's hearable wants to be pals

Why Vi is going to be about more than getting fit
Smart earbud lets you control your phone with just a smile

Smart earbud lets you control your phone

Device could be used to help the disabled
Doppler Labs and US Congress are giving hearing aids a rethink

Doppler Labs & a hearing aid rethink

This new bill would be great for hearables and... hearing
Get ready, smart clothes and hearables are set to surge

Smart clothes are set to boom

Better clear some space in the closet
The Pilot translation buds remain on course to break down language barriers

Pilot's translation buds are coming

Waverly Labs' CEO Andrew Ochoa on building the ambitious hearable
Apple AirPods v Doppler Here One

Apple AirPods v Doppler Here One

It's the first big hearable showdown of 2017
​Why are wearables always delayed?

Why are wearables always delayed?

Are we there yet?
Here One review

Here One

Augmented sound like you’ve never heard it before
Mymanu Clik smart earbuds are coming to translate languages in real time

Mymanu Clik translates from the ear

CES 2017: Meet the hearable that's ready to change the way you communicate
How Bragi blew my mind at CES with a helicopter and a hairdresser

Bragi reveals 3D audio for the Dash

CES 2017: 3D audio is coming to the Dash this year - and we've tried it
VoiceGenie set to bring Alexa to the hearable masses

Alexa is heading to hearables in a big way

CES 2017: Amazon’s digital assistant is heading to the ears in a big way
Fuse's wearables cleverly solve the problem with wireless earbuds

Fuse creates wearables to charge earbuds

CES 2017: Keep them charged, keep them safe
Nuheara IQbuds are now ready to filter your world of sound

Nuheara IQbuds set to start shipping

Smart hearable is heading out to crowdfunding backers and the masses on time
Bodytrak promises to accurately measure vitals from the ears

Bodytrak measures vitals from the ears

CES 2017: This fitness-focused hearable is definitely one for the pros
Living with the AirPods: How Apple's first smart earbuds stack up to rival hearables

Living with the Apple AirPods

A surprisingly smart set of headphones bring hearables into focus
Why building smart earbuds and hearables is so goddamn difficult

Why building smart earbuds is so hard

This is what Apple, Doppler Labs and Bragi are stressing over
Here One smart earbuds are delayed until February 2017

Here One delayed until 2017

Updated: Smart earphones pushed back - but worth waiting for
Apple's AirPods are now available to buy

Apple AirPods start shipping

Truly wireless earbuds give control over Siri sans iPhone
Sony Xperia Ear review

Sony Xperia Ear

An AI assistant in your ear
Jabra Elite Sport review

Jabra Elite Sport

Solid fitness tracking buds let down by some familiar hearable issues
Carat wireless sport earphones promise to coach you like a pro

Carat earphones claims to do it all

Currently looking for funding and aiming to ship in June
Google Glass was brilliant, it was just 'on the wrong part of the head'

Google should have done a hearable

Sonny Vu talks hearables, Spectacles and wearable tech's dirty secret
Language translating earbuds can't come soon enough

The world needs translation earbuds

A wearable tech holy grail explored
Vinci smart headphones: Would you wear these to play music without your phone?

Vinci plays music without your phone

Is there anything this crowdfund gadget doesn't do?
Harman talks teaming up with Under Armour and a future in hearables

Harman's hearable future with UA

We speak to the audio giant about being part of Under Armour's big tech push
Oakley's Radar Pace smartglasses for runners and cyclists now available

Oakley Radar Pace shakes up smartglasses

This has been a hella long time in development
New Bragi update lets you control Dash by tapping your cheek

Tap your face to use the Bragi Dash

And more gestures are on their way
​Why the Bragi Dash won our first Hearable of the Year Award

Why Bragi Dash is a Hearable Winner

Wareable Tech Awards 2016: Why the Dash and Xperia Ear are our top picks
Actywell’s heart rate earphones match the beat to your beats

Actywell earphones match music to heart rate

Actywell uses your heart rate to choose the next tune
Oakley Radar Pace review

Oakley Radar Pace

Getting chatty with Oakley’s intelligent eyewear
Samsung Gear IconX review

Samsung Gear IconX

The distant sound of the future
​Jabra Sport Pulse Special Edition review

Jabra Sport Pulse Special Edition

Jabra's biometric hearables just got even better
The wearable tech transforming how we live with disabilities

Life with a disability transformed

Next gen hearing aids and really, really smart glasses are the future
The future according to Bragi: AI, translation and audio social networks

The future of audio according to Bragi

The original hearable maker on becoming the "fourth platform"
Jabra Elite Sport are truly wireless earbuds with fitness tracking smarts

Jabra Elite Sport earbuds are wire free

IFA 2016: Real time coaching comes to Jabra sports headphone range