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Last week, geek-focused early smartwatch player WIMM Labs was revealed to have been acquired by Google, lending strong support to earlier speculation that the search giant would enter the watch-based…

Watch Smartwatch Space For Continued Consolidation As Samsung Gears Up To Kick Off The Race

Eric Migicovsky is an unlikely hardware mogul. His first product, the Pebble Smart Watch, came to him after experimenting with watch designs and then caught fire, going from $0 to…

I’ll Be Talking With Eric Migicovsky, Creator Of The Pebble Watch, At TechCrunch Disrupt SF

Smartwatch startup Pebble revealed today for the first time that it has received 190,000 pre-orders for its wearable computing accessory through its own web store following the tremendously successful Kickstarter…

Pebble Sold 275K Units Through Kickstarter And Pre-Orders, Tops 1M Watch Apps Downloaded

Pebble is selling its smartwatch via Best buy stores soon, with the device going on sale at the major U.S.-based electronics retailer on July 7 for $149.95. The e-ink display…

Pebble Smartwatch Is Coming To Best Buy July 7 For $149.95

Sony’s first go at the smartwatch mostly went unnoticed – a lot of people, myself included, had to be reminded of its existence when the Pebble made big waves for…

How Sony’s SmartWatch 2 Stacks Up To The Pebble And The MetaWatch Strata

A new app created by Toronto-based developer and entrepreneur Alex Kennberg uses the Pebble to take users through a standard 7-minute workout (made popular through media coverage at outlets including…

New Workout App For Pebble Shows Why Your Wrist Might Be The New Hot Spot For Mobile Devs

Smart watches are all the rage, and judging by the turnout and level of enthusiasm at the recently year one meetup for Pebble Kickstarter backers in San Francisco which I…

Meet Agent, A Smartwatch With A Second Processor For Minimizing Power Consumption And Wireless Charging

Get ready for a whole lot more Pebble. The smartwatch company just announced several software enhancements for the Pebble and a $15M Series A led by Charles River Ventures. Pebble…

Pebble Nabs $15M In Funding, Outs PebbleKit SDK And Pebble Sports API To Spur Smartwatch App Development

So far, the Pebble smart watch has done little besides offer up watch faces for users to tinker with, but the apps are starting to come in, and today marks…

RunKeeper For Pebble Arrives, Bringing Run, Walk And Bike Ride Progress Tracking To The Smart Watch

Pebble has officially released its SDK, after promising to deliver it during the second week of April. This qualifies, if only just, and arrives alongside firmware update version 1.1 for…

Pebble Watchface SDK Now Available, Let’s See What This Smart Watch Can Do

LinkMe is an LED smart bracelet that connects to your smartphone via Bluetooth and displays SMS and social media updates in text that scrolls across your wrist.

LinkMe Is An LED Smart Bracelet That Displays Scrolling Lines Of Text

We’re back! After a long hiatus, we’ve started up the TechCrunch Gadgets Podcast, our weekly review of everything hardware. We’ll be talking about hardware startups, flagship gadgets, and the wild…

The TechCrunch Gadgets Podcast: Smartwatches, Apple On The Defensive, And The Nook HD+

Pebble has just updated its smart watch, complete with a much-improved interface and new watchfaces. But the exciting thing here is the addition of a game you likely remember from…

Pebble Firmware Update 1.9 Delivers A Non-Watchface App – The Classic Game Of Snake

After much fanfare the Pebble smartwatch made the leap from fanciful concept to full-fledged product earlier this year, but now that units have started to ship and people have started…

Smartwatch Developers Rejoice! Pebble Will Release Proof-Of-Concept Watchface SDK In Early April
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Fly Or Die: Smart Watch Edition

9:00 am PST • March 4, 2013

As the race toward mainstream wearable computing heats up, watches are hot and smart watches are hotter. In fact, word on the street is that Apple is working on a…

Fly Or Die: Smart Watch Edition

Pebble smartwatches have been hitting doorsteps for a little while now, but my colleague Darrell Etherington and I have only just been able to join the party. The reasons for…

A Multi-Perspective Look At The Ambitious Pebble Smartwatch

Pebble, the smart watch that set the world on fire with its Kickstarter project, is already encountering a few growing pains as its device begins to trickle out to the…

Pebble Addresses Early iOS Bluetooth, Android Fragmentation Issues, And Battery Issues

Hold The Phone, I Want My Dick Tracy Watch

8:31 pm PST • January 30, 2013

A few days ago, I read Nilay Patel’s review of the Pebble smartwatch for The Verge. Like many others, I bought a Pebble on Kickstarter, and I can’t wait to try…

Hold The Phone, I Want My Dick Tracy Watch

Pebble, the Kickstarter darling and connected smart watch, announced just yesterday that its product was now beginning to ship out to backers in limited quantities, but its iPhone app had…

Pebble Smart Watch iPhone And Android Apps Now Available, Just In Time For First Shipments

The Pebble Smart Watch, a clever little watch that connects to your phone via Bluetooth (and tells time), has officially started to ship in limited quantities. After the product’s Kickstarter…

Pebble Is Shipping, But Slowly, And Without iOS App Approval

Smart watches are everywhere these days. But of all the time-telling, wearable, connected devices, it’s possible that this new offering from Neptune may be the coolest one I’ve ever seen.…

The Neptune Pine Smart Watch Has A Camera, Runs Android, And Wants To Replace Your Smartphone

The Pebble Smart watch is one of the best-known Kickstarter projects. A compact e-ink device designed to work with almost any smartphone, the Pebble grabbed attention when it hit $10…

An Interview With Eric Migicovsky, A Product Designer Who Had To Ramp Up From $0 To $10 Million In Funding In A Month

It’s day three at CES 2013. It’s a bit cold out. But here we are, for the third episode of TechCrunch Gadgets Live. We’ll be chatting with Pebble Watch. Did…

Watch TechCrunch Gadgets Live Right Now: Pebble Watch, Sphero And Tons Of Live Giveways

Pebble, the company that says it’s creating “the first watch built for the 21st century,” announced today that it plans to start shipping on January 23. The announcement was made…

Pebble Plans To Start Shipping Its Smart Watch On January 23, RunKeeper Support Delayed Until March

The creators of Spark, a Wi-Fi-controlled lighting system, has announced that their product will be compatible with the Pebble smart watch, which means you’ll be able to turn your lights…

Kickstarter: Spark Will Let You Control Your Lamps With Your Pebble Watch

Every time I see a smart watch I scoff and chortle like an bitter old man watching a gymnast fall on TV. I’m just not into them. But the MetaWatch…

Kickstarter Darling MetaWatch Shows Off New Features

Following the disappointing news that the InPulse team — the clever folks that raised over $3 million on Kickstarter in a matter of days — wouldn’t bring their e-paper Pebble…

Here’s A Sneak Preview Of The Pebble Smart Watch UI [Video]

The Pebble smart watch – a clever little device that connects to your iPhone or Android device and, oddly enough, tells the time – was a twinkle in the eye…

How The Pebble Smart Watch Hit $2 Million On Kickstarter [Q&A]

Not to be confused with the PEBL, the Samsung Pebble music player is about the size of the iPod Shuffle and features the same basic button layout although this model…

“What if a line of MP3 players, say, could be designed to resemble an array of pebbles scattered along an ocean’s shore?” I don’t know, Davey, but clearly someone wants…