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The European Commission exempted Apple Watch and AirPods from EU user-replaceable battery requirements due to safety and design constraints, pending approval by the European Parliament and Council.
The article criticizes celebrities like Kylie Jenner for normalizing Meta Ray-Ban smart glasses, arguing that their promotion of wearable recording devices raises serious privacy concerns about consent, children's safety, and constant surveillance.
Article contrasts Elon Musk's Neuralink with China's BrainCo, which focuses on non-invasive wearable brain-computer interface devices like bionic hands and sleep aids, highlighting the growing BCI industry and U.S.-China tech rivalry.
Solos announced the AirGo A6 smart glasses, weighing about 19 grams, with no camera and an AI assistant that relies on voice commands. The company also introduced new privacy accessories for its AirGo V2 glasses.
Mark Zuckerberg outlines his 10-year vision for smart glasses replacing smartphones as the primary computing device.
Verge senior reviewer Victoria Song shares her frustrating experience with the inaccuracy of consumer smart scales and body composition measurements, contrasting them with clinical DEXA scans, and argues that absolute precision may not be necessary for health tracking.
The Form Smart Swim 2 LT goggles offer a more affordable way to access Form's innovative heads-up display and coaching features, including form correction drills, though they still require a subscription for full training features.
Oura Ring 4 and Ring 4 Ceramic are heavily discounted during Prime Day, making the previous-generation smart ring a compelling buy compared to the newer Ring 5.
Canyon unveils its prototype Stingr Smart helmet with a HUD visor, integrated with AI safety systems to display real-time road hazard and behavior alerts, aiming to enhance rider safety and performance.
The article discusses Snap's new Specs AR glasses, praising their advanced technology but criticizing their unwieldy design and comfort issues, questioning whether anyone will want to wear them.
Snap's new $2,195 Specs AR glasses aim to be a fashion statement, but their bulky design may limit everyday appeal despite celebrity endorsements.
MKBHD comments on the need for a term describing how useful a product must be to overcome its goofy appearance, reacting to a demo of Snap's new AR glasses.
Snap is launching its consumer AR glasses, Specs, for $2,195 with preorders available now and shipping this fall. The standalone glasses feature dual processors, a 51-degree field of view, and up to 20 hours of total battery life with the charging case.
University of Texas at Austin engineers developed a jacket with a textile that harvests drinking water from the air, producing 400-900 mL per day, with potential applications in outdoor gear and emergency response.
The Pebblebee Halo is a Bluetooth tracker that also functions as a personal safety device with a loud siren and strobe lights, currently on sale for $49.99 at Amazon.
Xreal, a Google partner, claims the smart glasses industry has turned a corner with its new Project Aura wired glasses featuring OLED displays and a puck for immersive experiences like Google Maps and VR YouTube, though the industry has historically struggled with profitability.
Google gave a hands-on preview of upcoming Android XR smart glasses from Warby Parker, Gentle Monster, and Xreal at I/O, with audio-only models launching this fall and display-equipped versions following later.
This paper proposes Intelligent Partitioning for Self-supervised Denoising (iPSD), a method enabling unsupervised training of deep EEG denoisers by partitioning noisy segments without requiring clean reference data.