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There are known benefits to tracking your glucose levels, but it can also be a slippery slope into disordered eating.
Food logging is tedious enough without AI making stuff up.
Traveling with the Meta Ray-Ban Display was a better experience than using it in my day-to-day life.
When traveling, AI translators are still more cumbersome than the universal language of pointing fingers and Googling.
Plus a sore neck, a peeved spouse, and ethical quandaries.
I signed up for wearable maximalism, but with each passing day, I feel more cyborg than human.
AI companionship has its supporters, but getting negged by a glowing AirTag on a shoestring isn’t friendship.
It’s a very thin line between helpful monitoring and health paranoia.
It’s reasonable to feel wary about this tech, but we can’t ignore how it can be a game-changer for disabled communities
The company’s success in the space hinges on whether it can continue to push the category forward.
Satellite SOS would be fine, but maybe it’s time for a new wearable thesis rooted in what people really want.
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