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Roundup: notable AI-powered wearables and gadgets
A range of AI-powered wearables — including Bee’s new Bee Frontier and Bee Eclipse (following Amazon’s July 2025 acquisition), Friend’s updated Friend 2.0 pendant, Limitless (formerly Rewind), Meta’s upcoming Muse wearable (featuring a Jolly avatar), Nirva, Omi, and Plaud’s NotePin — are being marketed as personal assistants, productivity tools, and emotional companions, typically pairing always-listening hardware with subscription AI services. The devices vary in price, features (continuous audio recording, transcription, avatars, speakers), and target users, and the piece highlights both product details and some consumer pushback over privacy and ad campaigns.
KEY POINTS
- A range of AI-powered wearables — including Bee’s new Bee Frontier and Bee Eclipse (following Amazon’s July 2025 acquisition), Friend’s updated Friend 2.0 pendant, Limitless (formerly Rewind), Meta’s upcoming Muse wearable (featuring a Jolly avatar), Nirva, Omi, and Plaud’s NotePin — are being marketed as personal assistants, productivity tools, and emotional companions, typically pairing always-listening hardware with subscription AI services.
- The devices vary in price, features (continuous audio recording, transcription, avatars, speakers), and target users, and the piece highlights both product details and some consumer pushback over privacy and ad campaigns.
- Signals growing consumer push of always-listening, AI-driven wearables — raising product innovation, market competition, and privacy scrutiny in personal AI devices.
WHY IT MATTERS
Signals growing consumer push of always-listening, AI-driven wearables — raising product innovation, market competition, and privacy scrutiny in personal AI devices.