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Oura Unveils Ring 5: Thinner, Lighter, and More Accurate
The ring is 40% smaller than its predecessor, and comes with more accurate sensing, enhanced battery life, and more.
Xreal CEO: Smart Glasses Industry Reaches Turning Point
Chi Xu, the founder and CEO of XREAL, thinks the smart glasses business has finally reached a turning point.
Amazon's Bee Wearable: Convenience Meets Privacy Concerns
Like other AI wearables, Amazon's Bee offers an odd combination of convenience and privacy anxiety.
Oura Smart Ring Maker Files for IPO
The Finnish company said in September that it has sold 5.5 million smart rings to date.
Open Wearables: AI-Powered Health Infrastructure
Open infrastructure for wearable-powered health products.
Exploring AI Empathy: Teaching AI with Brain Signals
Podcast episode with Thorsten Zander, professor at Brandenburg University of Technology and co-founder of Zander Labs. He coined the concept of *passive brain-computer interfaces*: devices that read brain signals to decode a user's mental state, non-invasively and without any effort on their part. Covers: * What non-invasive brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) can actually pick up from brain signals, and why that's very different from reading your thoughts or internal monologue * The hardware and software breakthroughs that are finally making passive BCIs wearable and affordable * How continuous neural feedback could dramatically improve AI training compared to current methods based on human ratings * Why Thorsten believes passive BCIs may offer the most concrete path to solving the AI alignment problem * The risk of social networks exploiting unconscious brain reactions to manipulate people, and why regulation alone is unlikely to be enough
Neurable's Non-Invasive Mind-Reading Tech for Wearables
The startup specializes in "non-invasive" "mind-reading" tech—a kind of neural data collection that, its CEO hopes, will have all sorts of consumer applications.