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Today’s first responders rely more on grit and experience than tech, but a new type of suit, codenamed Apex, could help deliver life-saving intel to these these brave men and women through wearable technology.

From smartbands to smart shirts, smart clothes, and even smart shoes, the future of wearable tech is on display at the Wearables + Things show in Washington, D.C.

The first annual FashioNXT Wearable Tech contest, presented by Digital Trends in partnership with Nike, Intel, and Project Runway, sought to push the wearable boundaries, merging fashion with features to avoid the chunky, sometimes preposterous designs that characterize nearly all contemporary wearable tech.

Here’s wearable tech you’d actually wear. In partnership with Nike, Intel, and Project Runway, Digital Trends presents FashioNXT’s first annual Wearable Technology Fashion Competition. The design that wins this competition — and ultimately breaks through in this space — will at last bring fashion, style and elegance together in a complete package, making a must-have […]

Oren Michels isn't a preschool teacher, but his job is to make things play nice together. Specifically, your connected devices. And with Mashery, the company he co-founded, now owned by Intel, the era of the smart doorbell is right around the corner.

Sony Computer Science Laboratories is a much smaller operation than Microsoft Research or Google X. It likewise has a much narrower goal: saving the world through research.

Does the Apple iPhone 6 have something special? Can it succeed where others have …. well, already succeeded? And more importantly, are tech reviewers being fair when they review the iPhone 6 Plus? Here’s what they said today, and how they reviewed earlier phablets from the competition.

Don’t even try fooling this “personal trainer in your pants.” New smart fitness clothes, like Athos’ smart compression sports, can look at which muscles you engage during a workout and even how much you stress them.

Digital Trends presents FashioNXT’s first annual Wearable Technology Fashion Competition. The design that wins this competition will bring fashion, style and elegance together, making a must-have for the wearable tech world.

At the Google I/O conference tomorrow, the company will unveil Google Auto Link, an automotive head-unit that connects to smartphones running the Android operating system and a clear rival to Apple’s CarPlay system.

I’ve spent the past few weeks computing exclusively on a Microsoft Surface Pro 3 and a pair of phones running Windows Phone 8.1. The hardware is beautiful, but the overall Windows experience had me at my wits end.

Long before Google was a household name or "wearable technology" was a buzzword, vacuum mogul James Dyson was experimenting with a quirky head-mounted computer called the Halo.

Panasonic has a lot to prove with its latest LED televisions, having ditched it's best-in-class plasma TV business. How do its 4K TVs stack up? We found out.

Peter Lee, the head of Microsoft Research, discusses the company's newly developed Special Projects division, Google X, moonshots and blue-sky research, Windows 9 and more.

Who needs Gallup polls? Microsoft Research's brightest minds explain how social-media sites like Facebook and Twitter are opening the floodgates of data for social scientists, potentially ushering in a new age of understanding.

On April 1, Domain name giant GoDaddy began the pre-registration period for new TLD .ninja, and the goofy new domain is set to go live on May 28

On Wednesday, April 8, Matt Oscamou found out he would have a chance at $300 million in Google Ventures money -- the company was picking him up for an UberPITCH. In exactly 7 minutes. He was wearing sandals and a t-shirt. Here's what happened.

Sony issued a warning Friday to users of the Vaio Fit 11A, noting that batteries in the convertible laptop are liable to overheat, resulting in burns.

April 1 was day two of my dream job, as editor in chief of Digital Trends – and that’s no April Fools’ joke.

The tech industry, clearly fed up with the world’s biggest spy agency’s secret intrusions into its servers and systems, clearly intends to lock the backdoors on its own – but will it work?

Called USB Type C, the new connectors will feature an entirely new design with a smaller size, and most importantly, they're reversible.