Wearable

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.

Good news, I’ll be on starting at 11AM PT / 2PM ET to answer them in a subscriber-exclusive AMA. Comment your questions in the post below. If you don’t have questions, come hang anyway. Tell me about your latest tech-related existential crisis or what you’d like me to cover in 2026. It’ll be a blast.

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:

Patent infringement lawsuits are heating up in the world of smart glasses, with Xreal suing Viture earlier this month and Meta being sued last year over the electromyography tech in the Neural Band used to control the Meta Ray-Ban Display.

”In the United States, the new moto watch in PANTONE Volcanic Ash will be available for pre-order at motorola.com on January 22 (MSRP: $149.99),” Motorola spokesperson Brendan Hall tells The Verge. “The device will officially go on-sale on January 28.”

When I wrote about Nike’s “neuroscience-based” Mind 001 and 002 shoes, I thought they looked uncomfortable. The 22 nodes in each shoe are meant to stimulate your foot’s pressure points and relax your mind, and those nodes “hurt,” according to shoe reviewer Chris Chase at WearTesters.

I covered Peri — a wearable meant to help people track and manage perimenopause — at last year’s CES. So many health tech gadgets at the show never end up making it to consumers, but good news: You can actually order this one now.