A Samsung government revealed that the corporate is wanting into a brand new line of AI wearable gadgets that double as jewellery, together with AI necklaces and earrings.
Samsung’s chief working officer for cellular, Gained-joon Choi, advised CNN this week that the corporate is actively exploring a class of AI gadgets that “you needn’t carry,” and may as an alternative put on in your individual.
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“So it might be one thing that you simply put on, glasses, earrings, watches, rings, and typically a necklace,” he defined to the outlet. Samsung is ” all types of prospects,” he stated.
Samsung’s exploration could not lead to merchandise that it brings to market. Tech corporations usually create prototypes of merchandise that by no means hit retailer cabinets.
Samsung’s method is to introduce gadgets that complement telephones as an alternative of changing them, a technique it employed with its smartwatches and $399 sensible ring, in accordance with Choi. The corporate launched a brand new smartwatch on Wednesday, the Galaxy Watch 8, which is the primary smartwatch embedded with Google’s Gemini AI. The $299 watch touts superior health monitoring, sleep teaching, and stress monitoring.
The Samsung Galaxy Watch 8. Photographer: Michael Nagle/Bloomberg through Getty Photos
Samsung is not the one firm to lately sign a push into AI gadgets. Earlier this week, OpenAI closed a $6.5 billion deal to purchase io, an AI gadgets startup co-founded by former Apple designer Jony Ive. The acquisition, the most important but from OpenAI, introduced over io’s 55-person staff of engineers, designers, and researchers to OpenAI to work on wearable gadgets infused with ChatGPT.
In the meantime, Meta has skilled surprising success with its Ray-Ban Meta AI sensible glasses, which have bought over two million pairs since their October 2023 launch. The glasses permit customers to ask inquiries to Meta AI, take photos and movies, and reply calls.
Final month, Meta launched a water-proof pair of AI sensible glasses geared in the direction of athletes, the Oakley Meta glasses, and is reportedly engaged on one other pair of glasses beneath the Prada model. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg additionally previewed a prototype of glasses that mission 3D avatars of individuals, or holograms, on the Meta Join occasion in September.
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Different tech corporations are following Meta into the sensible glasses area. Google acknowledged in Might that it was dedicating $150 million to creating AI glasses with Warby Parker, with the brand new glasses to reach after 2025. Apple can also be reportedly creating its first pair of sensible glasses and working focus teams to pinpoint what staff appreciated about sensible glasses from opponents like Meta.
Choi advised CNN that Samsung can also be engaged on sensible glasses, which can launch later this yr. Nevertheless, Choi says that Samsung is searching for to develop into different kinds of gadgets with extra discreet type elements.
“We’re actively engaged on glasses, however some individuals don’t need to put on glasses as a result of they alter their look,” Choi advised the outlet. “So we’re additionally exploring different varieties of gadgets.”
Not all AI gadgets have resonated with customers. The startup Humane launched the $699 wearable Ai Pin in April 2024 as a smartphone different, however the machine, which customers may pin to their clothes, fell flat with reviewers as a consequence of overheating and lagging responses. Humane shut down the Ai Pin lower than a yr after its launch and bought elements of itself to HP for about $116 million in February.
A Samsung government revealed that the corporate is wanting into a brand new line of AI wearable gadgets that double as jewellery, together with AI necklaces and earrings.
Samsung’s chief working officer for cellular, Gained-joon Choi, advised CNN this week that the corporate is actively exploring a class of AI gadgets that “you needn’t carry,” and may as an alternative put on in your individual.
Associated: Samsung’s Latest Galaxy Gadget Goals To See ‘How Productive You Can Be’
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