AI Wearables & Smart Glasses
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Plaud NotePin S: A $179 Wearable Recorder That Lets AI Agents Capture Real-World Conversations
A 0.61oz pin on your shirt that records 20 hours straight, transcribes 112 languages, and now has a full developer API. Plaud NotePin S is the rare AI wearable you can actually build on. The Hardware Tiny clip-on recorder — 2 x 0.83 x 0.43 inches, 64GB storage, 320mAh battery. Press the physical button, it… Continue reading
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Google x Warby Parker Android XR Glasses: $599 smart glasses with Gemini built in, launching Q3 2026
Google is putting $75–150 million behind Warby Parker to build Android XR smart glasses. Two versions: a camera-and-speaker AI pair with no display ($599 range), and a Display model with a transparent in-lens screen for navigation overlays and live translation ($1,399 range). Both run Gemini multimodal AI natively — ask it what you’re looking at,… Continue reading
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Withings Body Scan 2: A $600 Smart Scale That Tracks 60+ Biomarkers in 90 Seconds
A bathroom scale that does impedance cardiography. That’s the pitch for Withings Body Scan 2 — a $600 “longevity station” that turned heads at CES 2026 when a Tom’s Guide editor went barefoot on the show floor and got a full cardiovascular readout before his coffee got cold. The hardware: a glass platform with 8… Continue reading
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OpenAI Sweetpea Reads Your Facial Muscles — Shipping September 2026 for $300
OpenAI’s first hardware isn’t earbuds. It’s a behind-the-ear AI wearable codenamed Sweetpea, designed by Jony Ive, running ChatGPT natively on a 2nm Exynos chip. No screen. Voice-first. And it can read your face. What Makes It Different The form factor is wild: a metal eggstone housing clips behind your ear with two pill-shaped modules. Weighs… Continue reading
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Everysight Maverick AI Pro: 47g Smart Glasses With Eye Tracking at $359
Apple put eye tracking in a $3,500 headset. Everysight just put it in 47-gram glasses for $359. The Maverick AI Pro are the first smart glasses with built-in eye-tracking hardware. A sub-1g sensor module sits inside the frame and powers GazeIntent — Everysight’s gaze-driven interaction system. Look at a menu item, dwell, selected. No hand… Continue reading
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Samsung Galaxy Glasses (Android XR): Two models, 50 grams, and Google’s entire AI stack on your face
Samsung’s COO Seong Cho confirmed it on an earnings call — Galaxy Glasses ship H2 2026. Two models leaked under SM-O200P and SM-O200J: one with a microLED in-lens display for navigation and live translation, one audio-only with mics, speakers, and a camera. Both run Android XR with Gemini baked in. Qualcomm AR1 chip, 12MP autofocal… Continue reading
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Alibaba Qwen Smart Glasses (G1 & S1): $275 AI glasses with swappable batteries and a Qwen API backend
Alibaba shipped AI smart glasses. Not a concept, not a dev kit — retail units on sale in China since March 8, starting at 1,899 yuan ($275) for the G1. That’s $100 less than Meta Ray-Ban. Two models. The G1 is camera-only: Sony IMX681 sensor, 12MP, 109-degree FOV, 3K video at 30fps with AI upscaling… Continue reading
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Huawei AI Glasses launch April 21 — 11-hour battery, built-in camera, and a HarmonyOS SDK play
Huawei’s consumer boss He Gang posted real camera samples from the company’s first camera-equipped smart glasses on April 8. The photos blew up across Chinese tech media overnight. The hardware drops April 21 alongside the Pura 90 phone line. The Hardware AI smart glasses. Aerospace-grade titanium alloy frame, roughly 30g. Built-in camera for first-person photo… Continue reading
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Snap Specs signs multiyear Qualcomm deal — consumer AR glasses with OpenAI and Gemini ship H2 2026
Snap spun out its AR glasses into a standalone subsidiary (Specs Inc.) in January. Now it locked in the silicon: a multiyear Qualcomm deal to run Snapdragon XR inside consumer Specs shipping second half of this year. Snap stock popped on the news. The Hardware Standalone see-through AR glasses. Dual Snapdragon processors, four cameras (two… Continue reading
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Amazon Bee: The $50 Wearable That Records Your Day and Fires Off Emails for You
Amazon showed Bee at CES 2026 — a $49.99 screen-free AI wearable. Clip-on pin or wristband. One button, one green LED. Records conversations in real-time, transcribes everything, then deletes raw audio. No storage, no cloud uploads. Four Features in 90 Days The 8-person SF team shipped fast post-acquisition. Voice Notes captures spoken thoughts on tap.… Continue reading
