Cogito enables activity tracking feature on existing watches

Cogito entered the market with analog smart watches that integrated notifications by way of icons on the watchface. The benefit of their approach is that their watches don't look like uber-geeky smart watches and they don't need to be recharged, at all.

Cogito Classic and Cogito Pop watches now have their activity tracking feature unlocked. This is great news for owners of Cogito devices which now have even more functionality than when they bought them. Hit jump for the announcement and instructions on how to enable the feature.

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New TomTom Rider helps bikers find the most exciting way from A to B

TomTom launched the all-new TomTom RIDER, a motorcycle-specific GPS device designed to make every motorcycle ride more exciting. For the first time, bikers can choose the level of twists and turns they want to ride to create their own adrenaline-filled adventure.  Check out our review of the older TomTom Rider.

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The Apple Beat: On the iPhone's 8th year anniversary

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

It was roughly around this time in 2007 that the world saw its first official glimpse of Apple's iPhone. As of June of 2014, there have been over 500 million iPhones sold. It's kind of fun to look back and see how the mobile world has changed since then.

The iPhone can really be credited for jumpstarting the modern smartphone age. While there were multi-functional smartphones before that that could access the Internet, make calls and take pictures, none of them really pushed the idea of multi-touch as well as powerful handheld apps.

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Video: Demo of the Typo 2 keyboard cover for iPhone at CES 2015

The original Typo keyboard for the iPhone was somewhat controversial in that it looked and felt like a BlackBerry keyboard and that resulted in a famous lawsuit which went in BlackBerry's favour. We recently got to see the Typo 2, designed for the iPhone 6 in action. While the Typo 2 features a backlit keyboard that allows for quick typing, it does cover the Touch ID button. Check out a demo above.