AI Wearables & Smart Glasses
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VueBuds (UW) matches Ray-Ban Meta on visual QA — with cameras inside Sony earbuds
University of Washington just picked a fight in the AI-wearable form-factor war. Not glasses. Not a pin. Earbuds with eyes. The hardware VueBuds is a research prototype that slips a low-resolution monochrome camera into the stem of a stock Sony WF-1000XM3. It streams grayscale frames over Bluetooth to your phone, where a multimodal LLM does… Continue reading
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Terasaki Smart Glaucoma Contact Lens doses its own meds — no chip, no battery, no wires
Yangzhi Zhu’s team at Terasaki Institute for Biomedical Innovation shipped a contact lens that tracks intraocular pressure and dispenses glaucoma drugs on its own — entirely through polymer microfluidics. No silicon inside the lens. Science Translational Medicine published it this month, and it hit Hacker News front page and Hackaday the same week. How the… Continue reading
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Eric Migicovsky’s Pebble Index 01 is a $75 AI ring that runs 2 years on one hearing aid battery
Pebble is back, and the first product isn’t a watch. Index 01 is a 316 stainless steel smart ring with exactly one button and one mic — no screen, no touchpad, no wristband. Press, talk, release. That’s the whole interaction. Pre-orderers started getting units this month after a December 2025 reveal and a CES 2026… Continue reading
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INMO GO3 packs hot-swappable batteries and 98-language translation into eyewear-weight smart glasses
INMO just pushed its next everyday AI smart glasses onto Kickstarter, and the hardware story is actually interesting. Normal eyewear weight, a magnetic battery that pops out and back in five seconds, a charging case holding two spares. That’s the answer most AI glasses dodge — “all-day battery” usually means tethered to a cable by… Continue reading
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Ultrahuman Ring PRO with Jade Biointelligence AI returns to the US at $479
US Customs cleared Ultrahuman’s titanium smart ring in early April. After months blocked by the ITC import ban from the Oura patent fight, Ring PRO pre-orders re-opened stateside and shipments start mid-May 2026. Hardware specs that matter 15 days on a charge, 45 with the PRO Charging Case. Dual-core processor, redesigned HRV, SpO2 and skin-temperature… Continue reading
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Even Realities Even Hub (G2 Smart Glasses SDK) ships with 50 apps and 2,000 developers
Even Realities just turned its G2 glasses into a platform. 50 apps at launch, 2,000+ devs already building. That’s more than Meta or Snap have put in front of real users. What the hardware actually is Prescription AI glasses. Monochrome micro-LED green HUD projected onto the lens, paired with the R1 functional ring for silent… Continue reading
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Memories.ai Project LUCI Pin is an open-source 45g camera pin that indexes your day on-device
Memories.ai showed up at CES 2026 with a reference device, not a product. The LUCI Pin is a sub-45g camera pin: 12MP ultra-wide sensor, 109° field of view, dual mics, 4K recording, 800mAh battery pushing about two hours of continuous capture per charge. It took home a CES 2026 Innovation Award in the AI category,… Continue reading
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Mentra Live + MentraOS (open-source) hit GitHub: one TypeScript SDK, four pairs of glasses
Mentra open-sourced the whole stack in April 2026. Not just the SDK — the entire OS, MIT licensed, sitting on GitHub at Mentra-Community/MentraOS. $299 gets you a 43g pair of camera glasses running a MediaTek MTK8766, with a 12MP camera at 119° FOV, three mics, stereo speakers, 10+ hours of mixed use, and 40+ minutes… Continue reading
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Rokid Style AI Glasses: 38.5 Grams, $299, and a Million-Unit Sales Target for 2026
Meta sells 7 million smart glasses a year and owns 73% of the market. A Chinese company called Rokid thinks it can crack that open with a pair of AI glasses that weigh less than a chicken egg. The Hardware Rokid Style is a screenless, voice-first smart glasses at 38.5 grams — roughly 10 grams… Continue reading
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Omi by BasedHardware: An $89 Pendant That Watches Your Screen and Listens to Everything
BasedHardware’s Omi started as an open-source AI audio wearable — a Mentos-sized pendant you clip on or wear as a necklace, $89. It records conversations, runs them through GPT-4o for real-time transcription, and spits out summaries, action items, and follow-ups. 300,000+ users, 7.9k GitHub stars, SOC 2 and HIPAA compliant. Standard stuff for the AI… Continue reading
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