Huawei has rolled out three new smartwatch lines alongside a fresh pair of earbuds. The Watch GT 7 series focuses on outdoor sports with ski and snowboard tracking, resort maps, and group location sharing, while the Watch D3 expands to 24-hour ambulatory blood-pressure monitoring. The Watch 6 series adds over 100 workout modes and eSIM calling, and the FreeBuds Neo bring up to 30dB adaptive noise cancellation with lossless and spatial audio support.
Burning Man organizers updated their official survival guide to allow Meta's camera-equipped smart glasses at this year's festival, provided wearers get explicit permission before recording anyone in frame. The policy contrasts with venues like New York nightclub Basement, which has vowed to permanently ban attendees caught wearing the devices.
Tado has unveiled its Smart Thermostat X, a 17.8mm-thick device priced at £159.99-£199.99 depending on wired or battery-powered versions. The company says Google's decision to shut down servers for older Nest thermostats has already driven a surge in sales, and it's betting more Nest owners will switch as support for older generations lapses.
Snap is releasing its Specs smart glasses at a $2,195 price point, positioning the device as a major new consumer hardware product. CEO Evan Spiegel is pushing this bet even as Snap continues to face pressure over its lack of consistent profitability.
Sonos let journalists test its new Beam Ultra soundbar and Ace Ultra headphones in several setups, including standalone, paired with wireless Play speakers as surrounds, and streaming soundbar audio directly to the headphones. During a movie clip demo, the Beam Ultra delivered clear, well-balanced sound with surprising bass despite no subwoofer, while adding the Play speakers as rear surrounds noticeably improved immersion through Sonos's new Fabric technology, which lets devices sense their placement and surroundings.
In a president's note, IEEE outlined its Humanitarian Technologies consortium, a set of programs including Empower a Billion Lives, EPICSinIEEE, MOVE, IEEE REACH, IEEE SIGHT, IEEE Smart Village, and IEEE Tech4Good, that apply engineering expertise to global social problems. The note frames these initiatives not as charity side-projects but as core engineering work that draws on power, energy, communications, computing, robotics, and biomedical fields to serve humanitarian goals.
Anthom, maker of the Homey smart home platform, has unveiled the Homey Portal, a €249 wall- or desk-mounted controller featuring a 2.8-inch round touchscreen and a stainless-steel rotary dial. Each unit is tied to a specific room and lets anyone present adjust lights, music, temperature and existing Homey Flows without opening an app. Pre-orders are open now, with shipping expected before year-end.
Amazon has cut $50 off the Amazfit Cheetah 2 Pro Smart Watch, bringing it from $449.99 to $399.99, an 11% reduction that marks the first recorded price drop for the device since its April 2026 launch. The running-focused smartwatch features a titanium-alloy case, dual-band GPS, a 1.32-inch AMOLED display, and up to 20 days of battery life in lighter use.
Huawei has introduced its updated MatePad Pro 12-inch tablet alongside new smartwatches and earbuds. The device drops to 454g and 4.7mm thick, slightly smaller than last year's 12.2-inch model, while featuring a flexible OLED PaperMatte display with 3K resolution and 1,600 nits peak brightness. It also packs a 50MP rear camera, 12GB RAM, up to 512GB storage, and AI tools like speech-to-text and handwriting enhancement.
Athom-owned Homey has unveiled the Homey Portal, a 2.8-inch round touchscreen device with a stainless steel dial that lets users tap and twist to control lights, speakers, thermostats, and shades. Preorders start today at $249/€249, with shipping planned for December, and the device supports over 70,000 products from 2,000+ brands via Matter, Zigbee, Z-Wave, and Thread.
Roku offers a free companion app for iOS and Android that lets users control their Roku devices directly from a smartphone, connecting over the same home Wi-Fi network. It replicates the core functions of the physical remote, including navigation, playback and volume controls, without requiring any purchase or subscription.
Reports ahead of Apple's Sept. 9 event suggest the iPhone 18 Pro's main camera could gain a variable aperture, letting the lens opening physically adjust rather than stay fixed like on the iPhone 17 Pro. Samsung and Xiaomi both tried similar variable-aperture designs in past flagships but later dropped the feature.
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