Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. The finished version of the watch costs $259 for the Core base unit. But the appeal of Blocks comes in the ...

The Blocks modular smartwatch project has ended in failure, after starting life on Kickstarter more than five years ago, and raising more than $1.6 million from just over 5,000 backers during its ...

The Blocks smartwatch is nearly here, and the modular smartwatch has been going through some changes since we last saw it, as the company prepares for deliveries to start in the fall. Best compared to ...

Blocks has been a very long time in getting off the drawing board — and still remains a prototype at this stage, some two years into development — but the modular smartwatch concept has finally landed ...

It's been several years since Blocks had its initial 15 minutes of fame, capturing the internet's attention with the idea of a modular smartwatch. The first prototypes were about as rough and ready as ...

Remember back before computers were sexy, and you only bought a new PC once every three or four years? Have you ever stopped and wondered whether buying the latest iPad, Galaxy, or Surface every ...

One of the more interesting wearables lining up to challenge the Apple Watch next year is Blocks, a modular smartwatch conceived by a couple of students from Imperial College in the U.K. — in turn ...

A new crowdfunding project called Blocks is trying to solve the smartwatch obsolescence problem through modular components. With Blocks, users can replace the standard watch band with a series of ...

As one of the Blocks smartwatch team reminded us today, modularity has played an integral role in modern computing. A desktop PC is only a collection of components, after all, which can swapped out ...

A few years ago modular tech was the source of a lot of excitement, but almost none of it actually took off. This week, another casualty has been confirmed. The BLOCKS modular smartwatch is dead, and ...