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
Smart glasses spent years being a punchline. Google Glass became shorthand for technology that arrived before anyone wanted it, and a decade of follow-up attempts mostly reinforced the impression. The pattern was familiar: bold demo, awkward hardware, no second act. That pattern broke in the last 18 months. The category is working now, and not
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For years, “Apple Glasses” lived in the same conceptual drawer as the Apple Car: a perpetually rumored product everyone assumed was coming, with no clear sign it actually was. That changed last month. Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman pushed the story past speculation in his newsletter, with details specific enough to read like a real product on
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April moved fast. Knives took over the conversation, smart glasses finally felt like a real product category instead of a science-fair pitch, and a few quiet roundups built up enough momentum to crack the top seven on their own merit. It was the kind of month where the loudest launches didn’t automatically win the spotlight,
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Smart glasses just got interesting again. Google’s been openly building its answer to Meta’s Ray-Ban dominance, and we’re staring down the first real face-off in this category. Meta’s had a head start: Ray-Ban Stories evolved into the Ray-Ban Meta line, now in its second generation, and that combo of fashion credibility plus useful AI has
Google AI Glasses vs Meta Ray-Ban: The Ultimate Showdown Read More
The wait for a mainstream pair of AI glasses isn’t open-ended anymore. Google and Warby Parker are publicly aiming for a 2026 launch, and the picture of what they’re actually building has filled in a lot since the partnership was first announced. If existing smart eyewear has felt like an accessory built around a tech
Warby Parker x Google AI Glasses Are Closer Than You Think Read More
Samsung’s first smart glasses aren’t one product but two, on different timelines and built for very different buyers. The first pair, codenamed “Jinju,” is a display-free design that leans on AI, audio, and a single front-facing camera. It’s tracking for a 2026 launch and looks built to take Meta’s Ray-Ban line head-on. The second pair,
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Google’s new AI smart glasses are shaping up to be more productivity-focused than social, and the company’s making it pretty clear it’s not chasing Meta’s Ray-Ban playbook. Google’s December 2025 announcement formally introduced two consumer varieties so far, an audio-only pair and a model with an in-lens display, and lined up Warby Parker and Gentle
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Huawei just put its own AI glasses on a stage. At an event in China on April 20, the company unveiled the Huawei AI Glasses, the first HarmonyOS eye wearable with an AI-powered camera and a built-in real-time translation tool, pitching them squarely at the category that Meta’s Ray-Ban and Oakley collabs have been dominating
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Luxury AI eyewear is about to meet your face, and the name on the temples might just be Gucci. Kering CEO Luca de Meo has confirmed that Gucci is teaming up with Google on a pair of AI smart glasses, widely reported to run on Android XR, and the project is already shaping up to
Gucci Is Going After Ray-Ban Meta, With Google’s Help Read More
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
Forget Oura, This 2.2mm Ring Also Controls Smart Glasses Read More
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
I Wore the Even G2 Through All of CES and Nobody Knew They Were Smart Glasses Read More