Samsung Explores New AI Wearables, Like Earrings, Necklaces

A Samsung government revealed that the corporate is trying into a brand new line of AI wearable units that double as jewellery, together with AI necklaces and earrings.

Samsung’s chief working officer for cellular, Received-joon Choi, informed CNN this week that the corporate is actively exploring a class of AI units that “you need not carry,” and may as an alternative put on in your particular person.

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“So it may very well be one thing that you just put on, glasses, earrings, watches, rings, and generally a necklace,” he defined to the outlet. Samsung is “taking a look at every kind of prospects,” he mentioned.

Samsung’s exploration might not end in merchandise that it brings to market. Tech firms usually create prototypes of merchandise that by no means hit retailer cabinets.

Samsung’s method is to introduce units that complement telephones as an alternative of changing them, a method 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 by way of Getty Photographs}

Samsung is not the one firm to just lately sign a push into AI units. Earlier this week, OpenAI closed a $6.5 billion deal to purchase io, an AI units startup co-founded by former Apple designer Jony Ive. The acquisition, the biggest but from OpenAI, introduced over io’s 55-person staff of engineers, designers, and researchers to OpenAI to work on wearable units infused with ChatGPT.

In the meantime, Meta has skilled surprising success with its Ray-Ban Meta AI sensible glasses, which have offered 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 venture 3D avatars of individuals, or holograms, on the Meta Join occasion in September.

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Different tech firms are following Meta into the sensible glasses house. Google acknowledged in Might that it was dedicating $150 million to growing AI glasses with Warby Parker, with the brand new glasses to reach after 2025. Apple can be reportedly growing its first pair of sensible glasses and working focus teams to pinpoint what staff appreciated about sensible glasses from rivals like Meta.

Choi informed CNN that Samsung can be engaged on sensible glasses, which can launch later this 12 months. Nonetheless, Choi says that Samsung is searching for to broaden into different kinds of units 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 informed the outlet. “So we’re additionally exploring different varieties of units.”

Not all AI units 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 resulting from overheating and lagging responses. Humane shut down the Ai Pin lower than a 12 months after its launch and offered components of itself to HP for about $116 million in February.