Topic: ai wearables
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Razer Unveils AI Headset With Built-In Cameras
Razer unveiled **Project Motoko**, an AI wearable concept in a headset form factor featuring dual cameras and microphones for real-time environmental capture and voice interaction. The device is designed for **universal AI platform compatibility**, aiming to act as a proactive, context-aware assi...
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Plaud Note Pro: The AI Recorder I Never Leave Home Without
The Plaud Note Pro is an ultra-thin, credit card-sized AI recorder designed for professional use, with over a million units shipped and strong adoption of its premium services. It operates independently with 64GB of onboard storage and long battery life, featuring four microphones for clear audio...
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CES 2026: Top 5 Tech Trends to Watch
CES 2026 will showcase AI's evolution from software into physical companions through a new generation of smart wearables and integrated digital assistants. The event will highlight transformative hardware like trifold smartphones and advanced home robots, signaling a shift toward more versatile a...
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CES 2026: The 5 Biggest Tech Trends to Watch
CES 2024 will showcase major trends, including advanced AI wearables, novel device form factors, and foundational semiconductor innovations. AI is being integrated into smart glasses and pins for proactive assistance, while smartphone design is evolving with foldable and trifold screens. The show...
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Alibaba's Smart Glasses Feature Removable Batteries
Alibaba has launched its Quark AI smart glasses in China, featuring a swappable battery system for all-day use and two models (S1 and G1) with distinct pricing and features, including micro-OLED displays in the S1. Powered by Alibaba's Qwen AI model, the glasses offer voice and touch controls, in...
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When a Friend Is Your Worst Enemy
The AI wearable "Friend" is marketed as a loneliness-combatting companion but delivers limited, often disappointing interactions, relying on push notifications and a single button for engagement. Public skepticism and design flaws, such as an awkward glowing appearance, poor microphone performanc...
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My AI Glasses Promised a Genius Upgrade, But I Got Clippy Instead
The Halo Glass prototype, an AI-powered smart eyewear, aims to enhance memory and intelligence by discreetly providing answers and summaries during conversations, but it falls short of its futuristic vision in practice. Technical glitches from third-party hardware and awkward design, such as requ...
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Physical AI: The Next Tech Frontier Is Already Here
Physical AI represents a shift from screen-based software to intelligent hardware systems that can perceive, reason, and act in the real world, enabling contextual and intuitive decision-making. A prime consumer example is smartglasses, which act as an intelligent layer in the physical world by s...
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These Rokid Glasses Made Meta Ray-Bans Feel Obsolete
The Rokid Glasses are AI-powered eyewear that integrate digital assistance into the user's field of vision using Micro LED waveguide displays for a monochrome visual interface. They feature an intuitive user experience with a ChatGPT-powered voice assistant, live translation, and a teleprompter f...
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New AirPods May Feature Side-Facing Cameras
Apple is reportedly developing next-generation AirPods with built-in, low-resolution cameras designed to feed visual data to on-board AI, enhancing spatial audio and ecosystem integration, potentially launching as early as next year. Beyond AirPods, Apple is also working on smart glasses that use...
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Physical AI: The Next Tech Frontier Is Already Here
Physical AI integrates artificial intelligence into hardware that can sense, process, and act upon its real-world environment, moving beyond simple programmed responses to contextual understanding and autonomous reasoning. A key challenge is the scarcity of real-world training data, leading to re...
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Farewell to 2025's Most Missed Tech
The year 2025 saw the final discontinuation of several foundational technologies, including AOL dial-up internet service and the last iPhone with a physical home button, marking the end of distinct eras in connectivity and user interface. Several high-profile hardware and software products failed...
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Tech We Lost in 2025: A Final Farewell
The tech industry saw several notable retirements in 2025, including the end of the TiVo hardware era, the final shutdown of the pioneering Skype service, and the closure of the popular read-it-later app Pocket. Microsoft fully retired its password manager in favor of passkeys for enhanced securi...
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Google Acquires AI Voice Startup Hume's Core Team
Google DeepMind has acquired the core team from Hume AI to enhance voice features in its Gemini ecosystem, while Hume AI continues to operate independently and license its technology. This "acquihire" reflects a trend where tech giants acquire specialized talent to avoid regulatory scrutiny, as s...
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OpenAI DevDay 2025: Agent Kit, Apps SDK & ChatGPT Updates
OpenAI's DevDay 2025 announced a strategic shift, positioning ChatGPT as an evolving operating system with new tools like AgentKit, Apps SDK, and Codex, alongside model updates such as GPT-5 Pro and Sora 2 entering the API. The event highlighted enhanced developer capabilities, including the gene...
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Meta's Metaverse Moves Beyond Virtual Reality
Meta is pivoting its Horizon Worlds platform to become "almost exclusively mobile," decoupling it from VR hardware to pursue a larger audience and compete with platforms like Roblox. This strategic shift follows massive financial losses in Meta's Reality Labs division, nearing $80 billion since 2...
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Meta Halts Horizon VR Headsets for Third-Party Makers
Meta has paused its plan to license its Horizon OS VR operating system to third-party hardware makers, refocusing on developing its own first-party hardware and software. The decision reverses a recently announced open-platform strategy aimed at expanding the VR ecosystem through partnerships wit...
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