From symptom guidance and wearable monitoring to appointment reminders and health-record organisation, AI is helping mobile health apps become more personalised, responsive and practical. Healthcare has traditionally involved a lot of waiting.

Wearable technology has moved far beyond simply counting steps or showing phone notifications on the wrist. Over the past few years, smartwatches have slowly become personal health companions, offering heart rate tracking, sleep insights, workout monitoring, stress indicators, and other daily wellness features. Now, Huawei Malaysia and Universiti Malaya are taking that idea further through a new research collaboration focused on diabetes risk and wearable health technology.

Google's I/O events are usually packed with announcements, and I/O 2026 was no different. As expected, much of the attention went toward Gemini, AI agents, Android updates, and Google's wider push to make artificial intelligence feel more deeply connected across its products. But among those bigger AI headlines, Google also confirmed another important update for wearable users: Wear OS 7 is on the way.

Most smartwatches are designed to feel polished, sealed, and a little mysterious. You wear them, tap the screen, maybe track your steps or glance at notifications, but you are rarely invited to understand what is actually happening under the surface. That is part of the appeal for many mainstream devices. They are meant to feel effortless.

For most of the past year, OpenAI's hardware ambitions have felt deliberately vague. We knew something was brewing. We knew Jony Ive was involved. And we knew the device was described, repeatedly, as "screenless." Beyond that, everything else was speculation. Now, a fresh leak is adding some much-needed texture to the story, and it points to something far more unusual than a phone or tablet.