Cristiano Ronaldo and regional wellness icon Karen Wazen back new wearables as GCC emerges among WHOOP’s fastest-growing markets
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WHOOP CEO defends premium pricing: ‘It’s a coach, not everyone wants a coach in their life’
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New Dyson $949 air purifying headphones ridiculed on social media
The unusual looking device was perceived as a joke by the vast majority, set to go on sale next year
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UAE’s top aluminium producer is testing wearable tech to protect labourers during extreme summer heat
Heat-related illness is a common concern across the region, especially for industrial labourers
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5G is transforming Saudi Arabia’s healthcare sector, said the director of sector development at kingdom’s ministry of Communications and Information Technology
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The preventative power of digital when it comes to health
In many ways, coronavirus has been the great accelerator of all things digital, especially when it comes to personal health
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Video: Is big tech good for your health?
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Apple gets lift from services, offsetting iPhone weakness
As iPhone sales weakened, Apple has been shifting to earnings from digital content and services sold to the legions of fans of its devices
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Opinion: how 5G could drive wearable technology growth
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Amazon said to develop new device to read human emotions
Wrist-worn gadget is described as a health and wellness product in internal documents by e-commerce giant Amazon
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Innovation in fashion is sparking radical change. In the future clothes could be computers, made with materials designed and grown in a lab.
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