Every year, our “must-have” lists fill up with the obvious headliners: the new iPhone, another foldable, a flagship pair of earbuds. The launches are loud, the unboxings rack up millions of views, and three months later most of us go right back to using the same handful of tools we already trusted. The gadgets that […]
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Alongside its new 3:2 Iconia Duo tablet family announced out of Taipei, Acer slipped in two of the more interesting wearables of the year. The AR Vision GR0 and GI0 AI glasses aim at completely different audiences, one for couch gamers and frequent flyers who want a giant private screen, the other for travelers and
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Meta Ray-Ban gets the magazine covers. Amazon’s smart-glasses category gets everyone else. And “everyone else” is doing more interesting work than the headlines suggest. AI assistants on open-ear frames, real Micro-OLED AR displays, 4K POV camera frames, and built-in prescription audio glasses are all sitting one search away, often for half what the big names
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ASUS Republic of Gamers is 20 years old, and it’s celebrating the way you’d expect: with a limited-edition handheld that’s louder, denser, and more ambitious than the one it replaces. The ROG Xbox Ally X20 Bundle was announced on June 1, 2026 from Taipei, and it’s the first Xbox Ally with an OLED display, a
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Summer is the season that tests your gear the hardest. Heat warps batteries, sweat shorts out cheap electronics, sand jams sensors, and the hour you spent picking the perfect outfit gets undone the moment you sit down on a humid bus. The wearables you reach for in July and August have to do more than
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Best smart glasses 2026, in one sentence: five pairs are worth buying today, two are worth waiting for, and the gap between those columns has never been clearer. The reason is one specific week. Google I/O 2026 finally previewed the Warby Parker–and–Gentle Monster Android XR glasses with Samsung as hardware partner. Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman locked
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For nearly three years, Meta’s Ray-Ban smart glasses have had the AI eyewear category almost entirely to themselves. That changed at Google I/O 2026, where Warby Parker and Google walked on stage together and pulled the cover off Intelligent Eyewear, a new line of AI-powered frames running on Gemini and Android XR, with audio-first models
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The smart glasses category is having its third loud year in a row, and the shape of the products on the way says more about strategy than any keynote slide. Meta keeps shipping frames that look like regular Ray-Bans. Google and Samsung partnered with Warby Parker and Gentle Monster before partnering on hardware. The Ray-Ban
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Google I/O 2026 was an AI keynote with a hardware coda. The keynote ran almost entirely on Gemini 3.5, Gemini Spark, a Search rebuild, and agentic tools, then Google saved the last segment for the hardware story it has been building toward for two years: smart glasses. The hardware list out of Shoreline this week
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There’s a fitness tracker without a screen, a phone with a swappable back panel, a tablet that wants to be a laptop, and a speaker that runs on zero electricity. Each one caught our attention in the last two months, and not one of them looks like the safe version of its category. That’s what’s
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The smart glasses race finally has a credible Apple release window, and it isn’t the one fans were hoping for. Longtime Apple reporter Mark Gurman now says the company plans to show off its first smart glasses in 2026 and ship them in 2027, per coverage from MacRumors and Macworld of Gurman’s Power On newsletter.
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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
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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
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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
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Smart glasses spent 2026 doing something nobody expected. They went from gimmicky tech demo to legit eyewear category in about five months. Apple finally moved. Google finally answered. Meta kept its lead and then doubled it. And a couple of smaller players proved you don’t need a billion-dollar logo to make people look twice. What
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The AI wearable category is in an awkward phase. The premise is compelling: persistent ambient AI that helps when you need it and stays out of the way when you don’t. The first flagships (Humane’s AI Pin, the original Rabbit R1, the early Friend pendant) all stumbled for the same reason. They asked people to
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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
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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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