A desk refresh usually starts with the wrong purchase. You buy the monitor first, then spend the whole semester tripping over the same power strip and finishing every study session with the same sore lower back. The picks below fix the parts of a workspace you touch every single day. Everything here comes from our […]
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Samsung brought its intelligent eyewear back into focus at Galaxy Unpacked in London, showing how the Galaxy ecosystem could extend into glasses made with Gentle Monster and Warby Parker. The showcase builds on Samsung and Google’s earlier Google I/O 2026 first look, where the companies framed the project around Gemini, Android XR, and everyday wearability.
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Samsung’s biggest Unpacked move wasn’t a new phone shape. It was making Galaxy harder to leave, with a watch that monitors more of your health, glasses that can see what you see, AI that can act across apps, and a wallet that wants a place in every purchase. Price: Galaxy Watch9 starts at $379; Galaxy
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Halliday has a second-generation pair of smart glasses, and the pitch is unusual for 2026: no camera at all. The G2 is built to pass as ordinary eyewear in a meeting room, trading the photo and video tricks of camera-equipped rivals for a display and an AI assistant aimed squarely at work. Price: $599 Where
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HTC’s VIVE Eagle has been on sale across Asia since its 2025 debut, and now it’s finally heading to Europe and the US. Best known for its VIVE virtual reality headsets, HTC is betting that the next big wearable sits on your nose, not over your eyes. Instead of chasing a flashy display, the company
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Xreal just spun up a budget sub-brand called X by Xreal, or xbx for short, and the a01+ is the higher-end half of its debut lineup. It sits alongside the base a01 as a pair of tethered AR display glasses built for movies, games, and work on the go, not a standalone headset. The glasses
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Covering a camera lens with a piece of tape has always felt like the easiest privacy trick there is. It has worked on laptops, dashcams, and doorbell cameras for years, and for a while it worked on smart glasses too. Meta just spent an entire newsroom Q&A explaining why that trick no longer works on
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Google just confirmed it: intelligent eyewear with Gemini AI is arriving this fall, built in partnership with Samsung, Gentle Monster, and Warby Parker. When it lands, it will compete directly with Meta Ray-Ban at flagship prices. Right now, before that launch reshapes the category, AI smart glasses under $100 are already delivering real utility. The
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Even Realities just became the latest smart glasses company to hit unicorn status, and it’s doing things differently than pretty much everyone else. The Shenzhen-based company announced today it has raised $150 million in a pre-Series B round led by Meituan and Tencent, bringing its valuation to $1 billion. The funding comes at what the
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The Gadgeteer is attending Snapdragon Summit 2026. Here is what to expect from Qualcomm’s next phone chip, XR plans, audio, wearables, PCs, and AI devices.
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AI glasses are moving out of the camera novelty phase and into a more practical fight: what can they put in your line of sight without making you look…
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Most gadgets don’t ship with a charging problem. They ship with a charging ritual you slowly stop noticing, right up until the battery quits at the worst possible time. Price: $59 Where to Buy: Meta Smart glasses moved that ritual somewhere strange. You wear them out, fold them into a case, let the case pull
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Smart glasses used to be a $1,500 punchline. This Prime Day, you can walk away with a 4K capture pair for $69.99 or an AR rig that gives your Steam Deck a giant private screen, and the deals run live through June 26. We’ve pulled seven Prime Day 2026 smart glasses worth your cart space,
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The Ray-Ban Meta line proved AI glasses could actually sell. Now Meta wants the next wave branded as Meta itself, and that’s the real story behind today’s launch. Price: $299 Where to Buy: Meta On June 23, 2026, Meta and EssilorLuxottica introduced Meta Glasses, a brand-new AI eyewear line that starts at $299 and ships
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Most people thought Apple would lead on face computers, the way it did with tablets and smartwatches. That changed in the past three weeks. Mark Gurman’s Power On newsletter reported that Apple pushed its first AI glasses from early 2027 to late 2027. A cheaper Vision Air model slipped to 2028 or 2029. At the
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More than a decade later, Snap finally has consumer AR glasses to sell. SPECS got unveiled at Augmented World Expo 2026 (AWE 2026), and they’re a standalone pair of see-through glasses shipping this fall in the US, UK, and France. The pre-order deposit is $200 and refundable, with the full price landing at $2,195. That
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You already know the pitch. AR glasses that replace your monitor, your TV, your second screen. Every company in consumer tech has a version of it right now, and most of them require you to squint past the compromises to find the product underneath. The display is dim in anything brighter than a dark room.
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You don’t need to wait for Apple. The smart-glasses shelf in 2026 finally has ten pairs that earn their price tags, and the gap between “buy now” and “wait for” has never been clearer. Six weeks of cross-checking specs, prices, and on-frame battery claims across the category turned up a pattern: the big brands are
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Computex 2026 ran out of Taipei’s Nangang Exhibition Center from June 2 to 5, and the show was heavier on silicon than on finished gadgets. Nvidia, Intel, Qualcomm, AMD, and MediaTek each spent the week arguing about whose chip should sit at the center of the agentic AI PC. Jensen Huang opened with RTX Spark
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The smart glasses market keeps adding players, but most of them ask you to choose between looking normal and actually doing something useful. (Here’s where smart glasses stood heading into 2026.) INMO thinks you shouldn’t have to. The INMO GO3, which launched on Kickstarter in April 2026 and is now heading into production, pack a
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