Runners and cyclists can see pace, heart rate and power without looking down at a watch. ENGO's engo3 Titanium sports glasses combine a heads-up display with lightweight titanium construction.
Heala brings food, workouts, sleep and recovery into one fitness app. Users can log meals from photos, connect health and wearable data, track progress and ask an AI coach about their recorded activity.
At selected Kiss the Hippo cafes in London, enrolled Revolut customers can pay by looking at the checkout terminal. No phone or card needs to come out. The pilot brings face-based payments into an everyday setting, where convenience, consent and customer trust all matter.
Colbee lets people access supported blockchain-based financial products and make transactions through a WhatsApp chat. The idea is to make those steps easier to follow through an app people already know. Whether that translates into wider use is still unproven.
Era is a new open-source calendar you can try in public beta. It syncs with online calendars, works offline and has layouts for small and large screens. After more than a year of development, it is ready for people to test in everyday use, though it is still a beta.
Hyves is back with a familiar idea: see updates from friends and communities in the order they were posted. Mediahuis has relaunched the social network for web and mobile, offering a calmer alternative to an endless feed chosen by an algorithm.
Calibre is now available across the UK after an early-access launch in London and registration with the Care Quality Commission. It brings together tests, health information gathered over time, AI and care from registered doctors. The aim is to help patients and doctors follow changes in health and plan preventive care.
Ask Zopa lets you handle banking tasks by talking or typing. You can ask it to transfer money, split a bill or pay an invoice, rather than work through each step in an app. The interesting part is that it can carry out supported tasks, beyond simply answering questions.
A route that works for a car can be a headache in a motorhome. Rovee plans European trips around your vehicle's size and brings tolls, road permits, low-emission zones and overnight stops into the same app. It is built around CarPlay, so those travel details can come along on the dashboard.
Meals can involve repeated calculations for people living with type 1 diabetes. CamAPS Liberty adds a mode to the myLoop system that automatically manages insulin delivery without routine carbohydrate counting or separate doses for meals and snacks. The aim is to take some of that daily planning off the user's plate.