News/Wearables
Kaiser Permanente Is Trying to Upend Healthcare with AI Wearables and At-Home Care
Kaiser Permanente is bringing generative AI, large language models, wearables, and other advanced technologies to patients' homes, transforming the traditional healthcare model to provide more continuous, proactive, and patient-centered care. Shifting healthcare to the home: Kaiser Permanente is embracing a new paradigm where care is delivered to patients at home, rather than requiring them to visit medical facilities: Patients are increasingly demanding that their healthcare come to them, in real-time and when they want it, similar to the convenience of services like Amazon Prime and virtual meetings. Kaiser Permanente, with its 40 hospitals and 618 medical facilities, is leveraging next-gen...
read Jul 10, 2024Samsung’s Galaxy Ring: Ecosystem Unifier or Iterative Innovator?
Samsung unveils a new ecosystem of devices at its Galaxy Unpacked event, with a focus on AI integration and iterative updates. The Galaxy Ring takes center stage: Samsung introduces the Galaxy Ring, a wearable device that aims to be the central controller for its ecosystem of products: The Ring features a small touchscreen display and built-in microphone and speaker, allowing users to interact with their devices using voice commands, gestures, and touch. It is designed to seamlessly connect with and control other Samsung devices, such as smartphones, earbuds, and smartwatches, creating a more cohesive user experience across the Galaxy ecosystem....
read Jul 8, 2024Samsung’s Upcoming Galaxy Unpacked Event Expected to Include Multiple Innovations
Samsung's Galaxy Unpacked event on Wednesday promises exciting updates and releases, including foldables, AI advancements, and the highly-anticipated Galaxy Ring. Foldable phones take center stage: The Galaxy Z Fold 6 and Z Flip 6 are expected to be the main attraction, with leaked renders and specs giving a glimpse of what's to come: The Z Fold 6 is set to feature a more squared-off design, brighter screens, and slightly improved battery life, while maintaining the same 4,400mAh battery capacity as its predecessor. The Z Flip 6 may see fewer changes but is rumored to include a brighter screen, vapor chamber...
read Jul 1, 2024Solos AirGo Vision: AI-Powered Smart Glasses Rival Meta Ray-Ban with GPT-4o Integration
Solos has unveiled its AirGo Vision smart glasses, a rival to the Meta Ray-Ban smart glasses that leverage OpenAI's GPT-4o model to identify objects and people, and respond to voice prompts, providing a ChatGPT-powered visual assistant. Key features and functionality: The AirGo Vision smart glasses incorporate a camera and AI capabilities to enhance the user experience: The built-in camera and support for GPT-4o allow the glasses to recognize objects and people in the user's field of view. Users can ask questions like "what am I looking at?" or give specific requests such as "give me directions to the Eiffel Tower"...
read Jul 1, 2024Apple’s Vision for AI: Integrating Intelligence into Mixed-Reality Headset
Apple is actively working on integrating AI capabilities into its Vision Pro mixed-reality headset, but these features are not expected to be available this year. Key details on Apple's AI plans for Vision Pro: Apple unveiled its Apple Intelligence AI product earlier this month with a promise to bring the technology to iPhone, iPad, and Mac; however, it now appears the company is also looking to incorporate AI features into the Vision Pro headset: The Vision Pro's 16GB of memory should be sufficient to run AI capabilities on the device. Features like notification prioritization, writing tools, an OpenAI chatbot, and...
read Jun 28, 2024Zuckerberg Slams Closed AI, Unveils Meta’s AR Glasses Roadmap
Mark Zuckerberg criticized unnamed AI competitors for their closed-source approach, suggesting they seem to think they are "creating God" with their limited access AI products. Open AI as the future: Zuckerberg emphasized his belief in open source AI, arguing that artificial intelligence technology should not be hoarded by a single company to build a central product: He finds it off-putting when tech industry figures talk about building "one true AI", as if they are creating something akin to God. Zuckerberg believes realistically there needs to be many different AIs created to reflect diverse interests, comparing it to how there isn't...
read Jun 26, 2024Meta’s AI Glasses Stumble as Real-Time Translator, but Hint at Promising Future
The Meta Ray-Ban smart glasses struggle to deliver on their promise of a hands-free, real-time AI translation tool for travelers, with mixed results and technical limitations. Key takeaways: A temperamental party trick, not a reliable travel companion; While the glasses could competently translate simple phrases and provide broad summaries, they often failed to parse more complex or colloquial text, and couldn't handle spoken language at all. The AI translation feature only supports a handful of languages (Spanish, Italian, French, and German) and focuses solely on written text, not speech. Instead of providing detailed, word-for-word translations, the glasses tended to paraphrase...
read Jun 24, 2024AI Smart Glasses: Immersive Experiences, Intelligent Assistance and Fashion Challenges
The rise of AR and AI smart glasses: A new era of wearable tech emerges, offering immersive experiences and intelligent assistance, but challenges remain in terms of compatibility, performance, and privacy concerns. The best AR smart glasses bring virtual cinema experiences to your face: Xreal's Air 2 and Air smart glasses deliver impressive augmented reality visuals, allowing users to project their phone or device's screen onto a massive virtual HD display: The Xreal Air 2 glasses boast comfortable designs, 120Hz refresh rates, and 500 nit brightness, providing an immersive private theater experience when connected to compatible devices. The original Xreal...
read Jun 4, 2024AI-Powered Headphones Let You Focus on One Voice in a Noisy Crowd
Driving The News University of Washington researchers have developed an AI system called "Target Speech Hearing" (TSH) that allows headphone users to selectively listen to a specific person in a noisy environment. By looking at the desired speaker for 3-5 seconds, the system learns their vocal patterns and cancels out all other sounds, playing back only the enrolled speaker's voice in real-time. Why It Matters This technology has the potential to significantly improve the listening experience for headphone users in noisy environments, such as crowded spaces or busy workplaces. It could also have applications in hearing aids, allowing users to...
read Apr 11, 2024Snapdragon-Powered Humane AI Pin Unlocks Physical AI Interactions
Humane AI Pin Teardown Reveals Powerful Snapdragon Processor The Humane AI pin, a wearable device that allows users to interact with generative AI chatbots in the physical world, has been the subject of much curiosity and speculation. Now, a recent teardown by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has provided a closer look at the technology powering this innovative gadget. Case in point: The FCC's photographic teardown of the Humane AI pin has given the public the clearest view yet of the device's internal components. The most notable finding is the use of a Snapdragon 720G processor, a powerful chip capable...
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