Topic: wearable devices
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Organize Your Thoughts by Whispering to This AI Smart Ring
The Stream Ring is an AI-powered smart ring from Sandbar that allows users to discreetly record thoughts and ideas by whispering into their hand, transcribing speech into text without storing audio. It features intuitive controls like a capacitive sensor for immediate recording and silencing, is ...
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Enter the Age of Wellness Surveillance
The proliferation of personal health technology, from urinalysis gadgets to continuous glucose monitors, generates an unprecedented volume of biometric data, blurring the line between empowered self-care and overwhelming data obsession. Despite the promise of personalized health insights, the rea...
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Who Else Has Access to Your Wearable's Heartbeat Data?
The proliferation of smartwatches and connected medical devices enables remote health monitoring and personalized care, but it also introduces significant security vulnerabilities due to the constant flow of sensitive data. Ambiguity in health data ownership and sharing practices raises privacy c...
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Samsung and Google Reveal the Future of Smart Glasses
The Samsung Galaxy XR headset, developed in partnership with Samsung and Google, serves as an initial step toward creating everyday smart glasses, blending mixed reality and aiming to compete with products from Meta and others. Its key innovation is deeply integrated AI, like Gemini, which unders...
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Samsung's Galaxy Glasses Tease: Did You Miss It?
Samsung hinted at developing AI-powered smart glasses designed to operate seamlessly in daily life, marking a new product category beyond phones or tablets. The smart glasses are expected to integrate Google's Gemini AI model and may be unveiled at an upcoming Samsung Unpacked event, potentially ...
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Top 5 Posture Correctors to Improve Your Alignment (2025)
Using posture correctors like the Branch Adjustable Laptop Stand or Gaiam Yoga Strap can enhance comfort and spinal health by promoting proper alignment during desk work or daily activities. High-tech options such as the Prana Breathing and Posture Wearable provide real-time feedback and guided t...
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Rediscover Your Memories: The Joy of Browsing Old Photos
Revisiting old photos helps preserve personal memories, and tools like the Shutter Declutter app make organizing and rediscovering these images engaging and manageable. New tech devices, such as Google's Pixel 10 Pro Fold with its durable hinge and the user-repairable Pixel Watch 4, offer enhance...
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Your Heartbeat Can Identify You, Even in Anonymous Data
ECG signals can be used to re-identify individuals with 85% accuracy, challenging the effectiveness of current anonymization methods in health data. The study highlights that ECG patterns are stable biometric markers, similar to fingerprints, making them vulnerable to linkage attacks across datas...
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Google's Smart Home Revolution
Google reaffirms its commitment to the smart home market, emphasizing that its Gemini AI will enable a truly intelligent home environment, despite past perceptions of waning interest. The discussion highlighted Google's focus on using AI to revolutionize device interactions and acknowledged that ...
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Mushrooms: The Future of Computer Memory?
Researchers are exploring edible mushrooms like shiitake as organic memristors, which can store and recall electrical information sustainably. Fungal memristors demonstrate energy-saving potential with low standby power, are biodegradable, and achieved switching speeds of up to 5,850 signals per ...
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Verizon Launches 6G Forum with Industry Leaders
Verizon has launched the 6G Innovation Forum, partnering with companies like Ericsson, Samsung, Nokia, Meta, and Qualcomm to collaboratively define the roadmap for an AI-driven 6G future. The forum will focus on testing new spectrum bands, promoting global standards through organizations like 3GP...
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