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Lilbits: Amazon Fire TV, Samsung Galaxy Smart Ring, Humane Ai Pin, and Honor Magic 6 Pro

Amazon recently rolled out an update to Fire TV devices that blocks a feature that allowed advanced users to do things like use third-party home screen and launcher apps without the need to root their TVs or media streaming boxes. But it also ended up breaking a number of other popular apps. Meanwhile the update […]

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Brilliant Labs Frame smart glasses are like Google Glass for the generative AI era (pre-order for $350)

The wearable computing space has changed a lot in the decade since Google Glass first debuted. While Google’s computer for your face never really took off, these days smartwatches are everywhere and the idea of sticking a device in front of your eyeballs is more mainstream than ever, thanks to the efforts of Meta, Apple, […]

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Motorola’s foldable phone concept would become a smartwatch by wrapping around your wrist

Lenovo subsidiary Motorola is showing off several concepts for new hardware and software at Lenovo Tech World ’23. Among other things, there are AI-enhanced apps for using your phone’s camera as a document scanner, summarizing text on a website, or blurring sensitive info in a screenshot (without the need to tell the app which info to […]

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Qualcomm and Google are bringing RISC-V to Wear OS smartwatches

Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Wear chips have been some of the most popular solutions for smartwatches running Google’s Wear OS software. And now Qualcomm and Google have announced they’re bringing something new to the ecosystem: RISC-V chips. Up until now all of Qualcomm’s smartwatch chips have been based on ARM architecture, but now the company says it’s […]

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The new $299 Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses might actually be useful thanks to AI integration

Facebook’s parent company Meta has been partnering with Ray-Ban to make smart glasses since 2021 (you know, before Facebook started calling itself Meta). But they’ve been a niche device that probably has limited appeal. That… may or may not be about to change. Meta has unveiled a new version called Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses that […]

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Sol Reader E Ink headset is up for pre-order for $350 (wearable eBook reader)

Apple’s Vision Pro mixed reality headset may have the best display ever crammed into a wearable headset, but it costs $3,499 and gets about 2 hours of battery life. The Sol Reader is something different. Very different. It’s a wearable device that has two 1.3 inch E Ink displays to put 256 x 256 pixels […]

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Humane demos a wearable AI assistant with a speaker and projector but no screen

Smartphones have dramatically altered the way we interact with the digital world (and each other) over the past two decades. And while we’ve seen the rise of wearable devices like smartwatches that let you do more without looking at your phone, they’re still basically smartphone companions with wearable displays. A startup called Humane is working […]

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Lenovo’s Glasses T1 let you strap a 1080p display to your face

A decade after Google Glass debuted, augmented reality smart glasses still haven’t really caught on with consumers. But there’s a growing market for VR headsets like the Meta Quest 2 and PlayStation VR. Now Lenovo has developed something a little different. The Lenovo Glasses T1 aren’t virtual or augmented reality glasses. Instead they’re just a pair of […]