Camera glasses get harder to police when they stop looking expensive. Price: $89 AUD ($63) Where to Buy: KSmart For years, camera glasses felt like a Silicon Valley problem. They were pricey, visibly branded, and easy to file away as something early adopters would argue about before the rest of us had to care. The […]
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Most smart glasses are trying to disappear on your face. The Caviar Ray-Ban smart glasses go the other way: they want you to notice the metal, the leather, and the myth before you think about the camera. Price: $6,130 Where to Buy: Caviar The timing is convenient. Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey is now in theaters,
Caviar’s $6,130 Ray-Ban Smart Glasses Turn AI Eyewear Into Jewelry Read More
XR glasses keep promising the same magic trick: a giant private screen that fits in a pocket. The harder part has always been less glamorous. Can you wear them through a movie, a flight, or a long handheld gaming session without feeling every gram on your face? 👓 Viture Pro 2 Price: $299 Where to
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Smart glasses have spent years promising a computer you can wear all day. Heat is the part of that promise that keeps getting left out. Put a processor, cameras, wireless radios, translation tools, and a display inside a frame that sits against skin, and the thermal problem arrives before the futuristic payoff does. I keep
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An AI necklace that couldn’t talk has spent two years defining itself through controversy instead of conversation. This week that changes. Friend AI Pendant, the always-listening AI pendant from founder Avi Schiffmann, now ships with a built-in speaker and a spoken personality, and the price has nearly doubled to match. Schiffmann announced the update, calling
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Casio unveiled the CRW-H001M-8, its first ring watch with health sensors inside. Heart rate, blood oxygen, body temperature and sleep all get read from the inner surface of the ring. The original CRW-001 from 2024 tracked nothing at all. Price: 1,990 yuan (About $294) Where to Buy: Casio China Add The Gadgeteer on Google Add
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Most fitness wearables were designed around cardio. The step counts, the heart rate curves, the VO2 max estimates: all of it was built to make sense of movement that looks like movement. Lifting doesn’t look like movement to a gyroscope. It looks like a person standing still, occasionally lurching, and the software treats it accordingly.
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Back to school season is here, and it’s one of the best times all year to score a smartwatch deal. Amazon and other retailers are running plenty of discounts to get students geared up, and some of the prices are genuinely great. Whether you want an Apple Watch, a long-lasting fitness tracker, or a budget-friendly
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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 came to London on July 22 with more foldables than it has ever put on one stage, and the message was hard to miss: the Fold is no longer a single phone. The eighth-generation Galaxy Z line now splits into three shapes, from a wider everyday Fold to a first-ever Fold Ultra, and Samsung
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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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Garmin just made its screen-free wearable official. The company announced the CIRQA Smart Band on July 21, 2026, and it’s Garmin’s first screen-free band that tracks fitness and wellness without asking you to pay a subscription. Garmin says CIRQA is available now at a suggested $199.99, gets up to 10 days of battery on a
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Evan Blass came out of retirement to drop seven high-resolution renders of the Galaxy Watch Ultra 2 in his Leakmail newsletter, and the headline isn’t the design. It’s the silicon. The leaked promotional material ties the Ultra 2 to Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Wear Elite, which would make it the first Galaxy Watch to leave Samsung’s own
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Every summer a new smartwatch promises to fix the battery and the brain, then ships something close enough to last year that most of you keep the watch you already own. The leaks stacking up before Samsung’s July 22 Unpacked suggest the Galaxy Watch 9 might break that pattern, because Samsung has confirmed it’s dropping
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Garmin’s Venu Sq 2 launched at $249.99 in 2022, and for most of its life that price kept it a step behind flashier smartwatches. It always carried the Garmin fundamentals, long battery life, built-in GPS, and serious health tracking, but the sticker price asked buyers to think twice next to an Apple Watch or a
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Verizon just added a new kid-friendly smartwatch to its lineup, and it’s aimed squarely at parents who want to stay connected with younger kids without handing them a phone. The Gizmo Watch 4 launched on July 13, 2026 as part of the Verizon Family ecosystem, and it leans into safety tracking instead of apps and
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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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You can reapply SPF all day and still have no real idea how much ultraviolet radiation your skin absorbed. That’s the gap BURŪV wants to close. It’s an Apple Watch band with a built-in UV sensor, and it reads the sun on your wrist instead of asking you to guess. Price: From $179 Where to
Your Sunscreen Can’t Track Sun Damage, This Watch Band Can Read More
Fresh doesn’t have to mean expensive. This month’s crop of bestselling new men’s watches on Amazon proves you can get a real design story, or a genuinely fun one, without spending Swiss-luxury money. Some are even under $20. They’re cheap alright, but admit it, the designs are refreshing. We’ve rounded up the top 10 bestselling
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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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