Stories from people dealing with Wearables — what changed, who decided it, and what the ordinary days look like now.
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Consumer AI Hardware
Microphone counts matter less than searchable audio, correctable transcripts and files you can keep. Test the exit path before paying for another AI subscription.
Devin Oyelaran · August 9, 2026 · 7 min
Consumer AI Hardware
Translation earbuds can sustain a careful one-to-one exchange. A restaurant adds overlapping voices, unfamiliar dish names, music, and enough delay to make the phone a necessary fallback.
Devin Oyelaran · 7 min read
Consumer AI Hardware
An airplane-mode test separates the glasses’ local camera from their cloud assistant. Photos survive; visual identification and AI reminders generally do not.
Devin Oyelaran · 7 min read
Consumer AI Hardware
A privacy-first walkthrough for Ray-Ban Meta glasses, covering the capture light, voice history, contacts, cloud processing and the conversation to have before recording anyone.
Devin Oyelaran · 8 min read
Consumer AI Hardware
PLAUD Note, Limitless Pendant, and Omi take different routes to the same destination: cloud processing. Their deletion and export controls deserve as much scrutiny as their transcripts.
Devin Oyelaran · 7 min read
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