Sony’s Core isn’t a wearable, it’s a sensor (hands-on)

The Core is tiny. Thick as two sticks of gum, but twice as smart, this is Sony’s renewed effort for wearables and it really couldn’t look more different from the SmartWatch we saw in 2013. It’s a different device to begin with: an activity tracker with no screen. Sony’s still keeping it all pretty vague, but going on the details of the colorful, oddly appealing app, it’s more life logger than health monitor. The idea Sony is chasing is to collect what you do in your life, your movement, your photos, music listened to and your social network goings-on, and collate them into a sort of automated journal — a new LifeLogger app that will launch alongside the hardware.

You’ll need to hook the Core up with your smartphone (through Bluetooth) to see what’s happened activity-wise, and we’ve been told the battery should be good for up to five days…