Gear News of the Week: The iPhone Air Is Surprisingly Repairable, and Gemini Comes to Google TV
Instead of simply giving you results based on actors or directors, you can now ask more in-depth queries, such as for summaries of seasons, or for popular titles you might not know the name of. For example, you might ask “What’s that hospital drama everyone has been talking about” to get The Pitt. Google claims you can even use it to find compromise between family members who prefer different genres of movies, like “Find me something to watch with my wife. I like dramas, but she likes lighthearted comedies.”
In addition to searching for titles to watch, you can of course ask any query you might want an answer to from Google’s Gemini AI—be that how to make a model volcano or the first steps to take in learning the guitar. For now Gemini is only available on the TCL QM9K Series, but it will be available on the Google TV Streamer, Hisense models, and other devices by the end of 2025. —Parker Hall
Withings Now Offers Advanced Women’s Cycle Tracking, Thanks to Clue
Courtesy of Withings
Women’s health continues to be a focus for fitness trackers. Earlier this month, the smart ring manufacturer Ultrahuman partnered with Clue, the popular women’s menstrual cycle app. Now Withings is following suit, announcing its Clue partnership earlier this week alongside the updated ScanWatch 2. The new ScanWatch 2 has an updated operating system that Withings calls HealthSense 4, which has AI-powered algorithms to predict health events—like, oh, when your period is coming. It also has what Withings calls an advanced heat-flux sensor, which reportedly predicts core body temperature more accurately than the skin temperature surface readings that other trackers use.
To support period and fertility tracking through perimenopause, the ScanWatch 2 will combine continuously tracked data—like sleep, stress, activity, energy levels, and temperature fluctuations—with data from the Clue Plus paid subscription.
With women’s health research going underfunded and under-researched for so long, it’s no surprise that private companies are now rushing to fill the gap. Right now, Withings is offering the ScanWatch 2 and Clue Plus as a bundle, discounting the rate to $380 for both the ScanWatch and a year subscription to Clue Plus on Withings.com. —Adrienne So
GoPro Unveils Two Cameras and a Gimbal
Autumn is action camera season, and this year the first out of the gate is GoPro, which has released the Max2, a long (long) awaited update to its Max 360 camera. The Max2 is entering a much more competitive world of 360 cameras than its predecessor, with Insta360’s X5 and DJI’s Osmo 360 producing excellent 360 video in nearly 8K resolution. The GoPro Max2 packs in an interesting combination of pro and consumer features, with support for log video (with LUTs), and Timecode syncing at the pro end, but with a very accessible, mobile editing workflow for more casual users.
