The last couple of weeks in gadgets weren’t loud. No Apple keynotes, no Samsung Unpacked, no trade show floors packed with press badges. And yet the stuff that actually shipped or got announced during that quiet stretch is wilder than most of the products fighting for stage time at CES. A desktop PC shaped like […]
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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
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The past month on The Gadgeteer covered a lot of ground, and some of it got weird in the best way. Smart rings that control AR glasses, a wine fridge with its own AI sommelier, headphones running a real vacuum tube, and a digital camera that won’t let you see your own photos. That’s the
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Smart glasses have spent years trying to convince people they belong on actual human faces. Most of them failed, and the reason isn’t complicated: every major player landed on the same formula. Add a camera. Add a speaker. Record everything. Broadcast everything. The entire industry treats face-mounted surveillance as the price of admission, the one
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Smart rings track your body. Smart glasses overlay your world. For years, both categories have operated in complete isolation, each solving half a problem while ignoring the other half. Your ring knows your heart rate spiked, but it can’t show you why. Your glasses can translate a conversation in real time, but they don’t know
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Video glasses always sound easy: plug in, get a giant screen, relax. In real life, they can feel fiddly in a way that makes you stop using them after a few days, which is always a small letdown when the whole point is convenience. RayNeo’s Air 4 Pro is being pitched as AR glasses that
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ARTICLE – Every smart glasses maker at MWC 2026 brought the same formula. Camera next to the lenses, built-in speakers, an AI chatbot, and the ability to record whatever crosses your line of sight. XGIMI walked into Barcelona and ditched that playbook entirely. The company built its name on home projectors, and now it’s channeling
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The Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses have quietly sold millions of units. They’re not a niche experiment anymore, they’re a real product category that people actually wear every day. And right now, everything’s changing at once. Price:: $364.99 Where to Buy: Amazon Gen 2 hardware that fixes the biggest complaint, a brand new model with a
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CES 2026 NEWS – After 15 years of covering CES, I thought I knew what to expect. This was my first year as owner and editor-in-chief of The Gadgeteer, though, and that shift in responsibility brought a different kind of learning curve. Here’s what nobody tells you about CES: the show floor isn’t where the
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CES 2026 NEWS – Smart glasses have struggled because they rarely behave like something you would actually wear all day. Even Realities positions the Even G2 as everyday display smart glasses designed to show you information quietly without making you look like a tech demo. Instead of chasing cameras or flashy features, the company focuses
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CES 2026 NEWS – Most accessibility technology settles for workarounds. It finds clever ways to route around limitations rather than confronting them directly. The white cane extends reach by a few feet. Screen readers translate visual interfaces into audio. Smartphone apps identify objects when you point your camera at them. Each solution adds capability, but
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NEWS – The Apple Vision Pro made waves when it launched for not just its impressive tech but its nearly $4k price tag. For those of us looking for an AR experience without the hefty price tag or sci-fi looks, there are other options out there. XREAL has been consistently recommended for their AR tech in
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NEWS – The smart glasses market is at the cusp of a technological revolution, with RayNeo, Xreal, and Viture leading the charge in augmented reality (AR) and extended reality (XR) technology. This article takes a look at the unique features, display quality, and overall user experience of these three brands, with a special focus on
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