AI Surveillance Cameras Can’t See Through This Jacket
The last time I really thought about what my outfit was doing for me, I was considering whether my summer dress made me look like…
Artificial Intelligence
Most Laptops Seal the Battery In, Dynabook’s New One Lets You Swap It
AI on laptops has created a new kind of battery problem. The promise of on-device AI processing, where the work stays local rather than routing…
Google Built a Translation Device That Doesn’t Need Google’s Own Cloud
Real-time translation has quietly become one of the most useful things AI can do, and most of the solutions doing it well are deeply dependent…
Samsung and Google Are Trying Smart Glasses Again, at the Worst Possible Time
“Glasshole” entered Urban Dictionary as word of the day in March 2013, which tells you roughly how long it took society to make up its…
Lenovo Just Made a $44 Kid Phone That Kills TikTok and the Browser
Most phones marketed at kids are really just smartphones in disguise, dressed down with monitoring apps and screen-time limits that parents set and children quietly…
OpenAI and Work Louder Just Built a $230 Physical Remote for AI Agents
Managing multiple AI agents at once has become a surprisingly real friction point in modern knowledge work. Developers using tools like OpenAI’s Codex, which is…
nubia Just Built the World’s First Phone That Does Things on Its Own
Smartphone makers have been adding AI features for a few years now, and at this point, the marketing language around them has become fairly predictable….
Google, Amazon, and Sonos All Redesigned Their Smart Speakers, Except Apple
Between 2017 and 2021, Amazon’s devices division burned through over $25 billion, with Alexa and Echo hardware at the center of almost every bad quarter….
A Moss-Covered Payphone Just Became the Voice of 2147
Picture a payphone. Not a sleek, reimagined version, just an actual, beat-up Telefónica booth, the kind you might walk past on a Barcelona street without…
Lenovo’s AI Student Phone prioritizes learning over entertainment with smart parental controls
Lenovo has introduced a smartphone with a very different purpose from the devices that dominate today’s gadget landscape. Instead of chasing higher performance, better cameras,…
AI Generates Thousands of Product Renders a Day. Almost None Ship.
In April 2024, a design page called Inspiring Designs posted a few images of a gorilla-shaped couch. The gorilla’s arms curved into armrests. Its chest…
Meta Just Launched $299 AI Glasses Without the Ray-Ban Name
Smart glasses have been trying to go mainstream for years, but pricing has been a stubborn barrier. The Ray-Ban Meta glasses popularized the category by…
Forget Humanoids: Eno Might Be the Robot We Actually Need
The robot race has been moving in one direction for a while now: two legs, a head, and a shape that clearly spent considerable time…
Lenovo built an AI-ready Mac mini rival for $440… and it’s only available in China
For the past two years, on-device AI has been a hardware arms race, a contest to see whose NPU could post the most TOPS before…
This $189 Gadget Killed the Creepy AI Meeting Transcription Bot
There’s a moment in every modern video call that makes you cringe. It’s not the person talking while muted or the cat walking across a…
An Ex-Alibaba Exec Spent 12 Years Building the Smart Glasses that Google Couldn’t
The story of Google Glass is a well-worn legend in Silicon Valley. It was a product so far ahead of its time that it became…