{"id":642774,"date":"2026-08-18T01:54:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T01:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/642774\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T01:54:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T01:54:11","slug":"google-may-have-leaked-its-next-fitbit-or-let-ai-hallucinate-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/642774\/","title":{"rendered":"Google May Have Leaked Its Next Fitbit\u2014Or Let AI Hallucinate It"},"content":{"rendered":"

Google may have accidentally leaked the first images of its next Fitbit wearable. In ads for the Pixel 11 series<\/a> spotted by users on Reddit<\/a>, the company included an unannounced fitness tracker or smartwatch that isn\u2019t the Fitbit Air<\/a> or the new Pixel Watch 5<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The ads appeared on YouTube and showcased Pixel 11 phones surrounded by watch bands, the Pixel Watch 5, and the mysterious wearable. The device, which features an oblong screen that appears to be larger than the 1.04-inch one on the Fitbit Charge 6<\/a>, also has an interface reminiscent of Google\u2019s Wear OS 7<\/a>. So far, Google has tried to differentiate its cheaper Fitbit devices from its more premium Pixel ones, so the fact that this new wearable is being advertised alongside the Pixel Watch 5 is unusual. That could suggest the device is some sort of cheaper version of the Pixel Watch rather than a new Fitbit.<\/p>\n

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Pixel 11 ads show a mysterious screen-equipped tracker that’s not Pixel Watch 5 or Fitbit Air [Gallery] https:\/\/t.co\/P1eqAcwYKQ<\/a> by @nexusben<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 9to5Google (@9to5Google) August 15, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

It\u2019s been three years since Google released the Fitbit Charge 6 in 2023, so it wouldn\u2019t necessarily be surprising if the company were working on an upgrade, though. The Charge 6 features a more accurate heart rate sensor than the Charge 5<\/a> and the ability to track your activity, sleep, and stress, but Google also leaned hard on it being a Fitbit tracker with \u201cGoogle smarts.\u201d That\u2019s something it\u2019s only continued to do with the AI Health Coach<\/a> it launched alongside the Fitbit Air. A Charge 7, besides the requisite sensor upgrades, would presumably also be all about AI-powered features.<\/p>\n

Besides Google accidentally leaking its own wearable, one other explanation is that the device is itself a product of AI. Google offers its advertising customers the ability to generate ads with its Nano Banana Pro mode<\/a>, so why wouldn\u2019t the company use the same tools for its own products? Maybe this strange new wearable is just a hallucination that slipped in with the likely hundreds or thousands of image and video assets Google creates for a new Pixel launch. As 9to5Google<\/a> notes, it certainly seems strange that the company would make the same mistake for multiple versions of the ad (users have spotted the device in ads for both the white and green models of the Pixel 11), but it\u2019s not impossible.<\/p>\n

The Fitbit Air arrived alongside a growing interest in screenless wearables, but given the higher starting price of the Pixel Watch 5, there could be room for something that\u2019s like a smartwatch but costs less than $400. Whether the wearable in these ads is that device remains to be seen.<\/p>\n

Gizmodo has asked Google to comment on the ads and whether they were published by mistake. We\u2019ll update this post if the company responds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Google may have accidentally leaked the first images of its next Fitbit wearable. In ads for the Pixel…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":642775,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[261],"tags":[291,289,290,18,4710,525,11595,823,135,19,17,81105,82,3149],"class_list":["post-642774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-eire","tag-fitbit","tag-fitness","tag-fitness-trackers","tag-google","tag-health","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-leaks","tag-technology","tag-wearables"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/117114022948544517","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=642774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642774\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/642775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=642774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=642774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=642774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}