An emotional AI companion robot is a hardware device built around presence and emotional interaction rather than productivity, using sensors and conversational AI to read tone, touch, and context for a specific kind of user. Every few months a new robot promises to read your face, remember your bad day, and meet you where you […]
6 Emotional AI Companion Robots Designed to Read You Back Read More
ECOVACS spent more than two decades teaching machines to clean floors, scrub windows, mow lawns, and skim pools. Today the company decided it’s done with utility. LilMilo, ECOVACS’ first emotional AI companion robot, went on sale in the US for $599, and it’s the brand’s clearest signal yet that the next robotics category isn’t about
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Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses are the most popular AI wearable on the market, and as of April 2026, Meta sells two frames built specifically for prescription wearers. The Blayzer Optics (Gen 2) and Scriber Optics (Gen 2) start at $499 for the frame and are available at LensCrafters, Sunglass Hut, Meta.com, and Ray-Ban.com per EssilorLuxottica’s
Ray-Ban Meta Prescription Glasses: What You Need to Know Read More
After five months of wearing the Even Realities G2 in the real world, the news that it’s becoming an actual gadget inside 007 First Light doesn’t feel like forced product placement. It feels like the first time a smart-glasses maker understood the assignment: spy gear should be invisible, not a face-mounted camera that screams “I’m
Even Realities G2 Smart Glasses Just Became a 007 Gadget, and We Saw It Coming Read More
Smart glasses have a runtime problem nobody likes to talk about. You’re spending ~$500 on something that lives on your face, then pulling it off every few hours to find an outlet. The biggest blocker to all-day wear isn’t the camera or the AI. It’s the battery. Alibaba’s Quark AI Glasses S1, launched in China
Alibaba’s Quark AI Glasses S1 Just Got Proactive AI Read More
For years, if your friend asked which security camera to buy, you said Ring. That answer’s starting to feel dated. The default has shifted, and the shift didn’t come from where you’d expect. Price: $99 (Discounted from $149.99) Where to Buy: Amazon It came from a $90 camera most American buyers haven’t heard of. TP-Link’s
The 7 AI Security Cameras Quietly Beating Ring in 2026 Read More
For two years, the AI wearables fight has been a fight over your face. Frames keep getting thinner. Lenses keep getting smarter. Every new launch asks you to put a small computer between your eyes and the rest of the world, then trusts that you’ll get used to wearing it all day. The bet across
Razer Project Motoko is AI Vision in a Headset, Not Glasses Read More
For about a year, the AI wearable category was a punchline. Humane shipped a $699 pin that overheated and got shut down inside a year. Rabbit shipped a $199 orange brick that mostly opened web pages. Friend spent over a million dollars on New York subway ads for a pendant that hadn’t shipped, and the
AI Wearables Stopped Being a Joke, Here are 5 Winners Read More
Carl Pei’s hardware startup has quietly shifted gears. According to a Bloomberg report, Nothing is developing a pair of AI-powered smart glasses with a planned release window in the first half of 2027. The glasses would include cameras, microphones, and speakers, all tethered to a smartphone and cloud processing rather than running independently. It’s the
One Phone Brand Thinks It Can Out-Design Meta Read More
Most people assume AI in watchmaking means a render that never gets built, or a gimmick slapped onto a press release to grab headlines. Casio just mass-produced a watch that proves them wrong. The G-Shock Full-Metal GMW-BZ5000RC-1JR is a limited edition reinterpretation of the iconic 5000 Series square that pairs AI-analyzed structural data with a
AI Built a G-Shock and Casio Covered It in Rainbows Read More
The baby monitor aisle used to be simple. You picked up a box with a camera and a screen, maybe debated whether you needed night vision, and called it a day. That version of the market still exists, technically. It just happens to sit inside a category that Renub Research now values at $1.22 billion
Baby Monitors Got Smarter: What AI Can Do And What It Cannot Yet Read More
Most wearable AI devices at MWC 2026 wanted to put information in front of your eyes. Scople went the other direction entirely. Built by startup Moxiebyte, this pocket-sized gadget uses computer vision to analyze what’s happening around you in real time, from the emotional reactions of people you’re talking to, to whether you’re reaching for
A Tiny Wearable That Reads the Room and Forgets It Read More
Most people carry their phone like a life preserver. Pull it out at dinner to snap a photo, at a meeting to jot a note, on a hike to capture a view you’ll scroll past in three weeks and never look at again. The assumption baked into every piece of mobile tech is that capturing
This $199 AI Wearable Is One You Can Actually Buy Now Read More
Amazon didn’t build a hospital. It built the staff. AWS just launched Connect Health, an agentic AI platform designed to handle the work that burns out human workers fastest. Scheduling. Clinical documentation. Medical coding. Patient verification. Medical history review. Five capabilities under one platform, and the first two are available now with the rest rolling
Amazon’s $99 AI Now Does the Work Hospitals Can’t Staff Read More
Talking to AI still carries a faint whiff of weirdness. You ask a question into the void, something invisible answers back, and the whole exchange feels like filing a support ticket with a very fast typist. Samsung Display looked at that problem and decided the fix wasn’t better language models. It was a face. The
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ARTICLE – OPPO and MediaTek showed up at MWC 2026 in Barcelona this week with on-device AI features that feel ahead of schedule. Their work runs on MediaTek’s Dimensity 9500 chip, and it brings tools that usually need a cloud connection straight to the phone. The biggest reveal is an AI model called Omni that
These Phones See What You See and Talk to iPhones Without an App Read More
The Humane AI Pin was supposed to change everything. A tiny, screenless computer pinned to your chest, ready to answer questions, take photos, and replace your phone. It launched in spring 2024 to brutal reviews and struggled to gain traction. By 2025, the company was reportedly exploring a sale. The AI pin, as a concept,
The Humane AI Pin failed, so why is Apple building one too? Read More
ARTICLE – We’ve gotten used to the idea that every gadget should do more than one thing to earn space in a bag. Multitools and earbuds that double as health monitors prove the concept works when the execution is solid. Other times, the result falls flat. Ugreen’s CES 2026 announcement sits right in that tension.
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NEWS – Most people don’t think about kitchen appliances until something breaks. Fridges hum. Ovens heat. That’s the gap Samsung is going after with its AI-first strategy, and it’s a well-timed bet on changing habits before they’ve fully taken shape. The pitch isn’t repairs or quick upgrades: it’s that a connected kitchen solves problems you
Samsung Bespoke AI Wants to Run Your Whole Kitchen Read More
Between runway shows, photographers have minutes to deliver images that used to take hours to process. Designers expect selects by morning. Brands want street style live before the day ends. During Fashion Week, editing time becomes the real bottleneck. Evoto AI Photo Editor Learn more: Try Evoto AI Evoto cites a pattern where editing can
Inside Fashion Week Deadlines and the AI Workflow Evoto Is Betting On in 2026 Read More