Nike recently introduced a wearable device called the Nike+ FuelBand which can track your fitness data throughout the day. It’s basically a tiny computer in a wristband with a handful of sensors and a very limited set of functions. One question that Nike didn’t really address when introducing the FuelBand last month was how it managed to cram the electronics…

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The Motorola XYBOARD 8.2 tablet recently started shipping — but if you’re one of the first people to plunk down $400 or more for Motorola’s latest tablet, odds are you’re not exactly interested in ripping it to pieces to see what lies on the inside. Fortunately that’s where the FCC comes in. The XYBOARD 8.2 passed through Federal Communications website…

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The Asus MeMic is a small Bluetooth device designed to work with the Eee Pad MeMo tablet. You can use it as a remote control, or even use it to take and receive phone calls without holding the whole 7 inch tablet up to your face. Asus first showed off the MeMo and MeMic last year, and I spotted it…

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The Fusion Garage Grid 10 is a tablet with a 10 inch display and an unusual operating system that’s based on Google Android. It has a custom home screen, web browser, and suite of applications, but the tablet can run many Android applications. It sells for $299. Fusion Garage introduced the tablet in August, but it actually showed up at…

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The Gigabyte Booktop 1132 is a computer designed for anyone that can’t choose between a laptop, a tablet, or a desktop. It aims to be all three. You can use the computer as a standard laptop, twist the screen and fold it back over the keyboard for use as a tablet, or close the lid and place the Booktop 1132…

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The Arnova 9 G2 is an Android tablet with a 9.7 inch, 1024 x 768 pixel IPS display. It supports 5-point multitouch input, runs Google Android 2.3 Gingerbread and has a 1 GHz ARM Cortex-A8 single core CPU. The tablet showed up recently on the Arnova website, but there’s no word on a price or release date. This week it passed through…

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Gigabyte has been producing convertible tablet-style netbooks for a few years. At first glance they look like any other netbook, if a bit bulkier. But the displays are attached to the base of the computer with a swivel rather than two hinges. This lets you rotate the screen 180 degrees and fold it down over the keyboard so you can…

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Chinese Windows Phone game developer BungBungame appears to be preparing to launch a Windows tablet in the US. The company’s upcoming BungBungame Photon 100 tablet passed through the FCC website this week. The tablet appears to have a 1 GHz AMD Z-series processor, up to 4GB of RAM, a 64GB SanDisk solid state disk and Windows 7 Home Premium operating…

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The Kobo Vox is the other $200 tablet from a digital bookseller to come out this fall. While Amazon and Barnes & Noble have been grabbing a lot of headlines with their upcoming Kindle Fire and NOOK Tablet, the Kobo Vox has already been on sale for a week. The tablet showed up at the FCC website a few months ago,…

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Acer’s next 10 inch tablet may be the Iconia Tab A200. A photo of the tablet was spotted last week, courtesy of the Bluetooth SIG website. Now the Acer Iconia Tab A200 has made a visit to the FCC website. The FCC isn’t revealing many new details about the tablet, but the listing does confirm that the device will feature…

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Asus plans to officially launch the Eee Pad Transformer Prime on November 7th. But company chairman Jonney Shih already showed off the tablet at an event last month, and the Transformer Prime has already stopped by the FCC for approval. Actually, the new tablet hit the FCC website on October 25th — but the website was partially broken fort he last few…

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Motorola hasn’t actually announced a replacement or update for the Motorola XOOM line yet, but new 8 and 10 inch tablets are rumored to be in the works, and we’ve already seen some leaked photos of each. Today at least one of those devices inched a little closer to launch as it passed through the FCC website. The FCC listing doesn’t name the…

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