An Samsung -based executive revealed that the company is looking into a new line of AI wearing equipment that is doubled as jewelry, including AI necklace and earrings.
Samsung Chief Operating Officer for Mobile, Won-Joon Choi, Told CNN This week that the company is actively searching for a category of AI devices that “you don’t need to carry,” and can wear it on your person instead.
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“So it can be something you wear, glasses, earrings, watches, rings and sometimes a necklace,” they explained to the outlet. Samsung “is looking at all kinds of possibilities,” he said.
Samsung’s discovery may not result in products that it brings to the market. Tech companies often make prototypes of products that never hit store shelves.
Samsung’s approach is to introduce devices that complement the phone instead of changing them, a strategy that he has employed with his smartwatch and $ 399 Smart ringAccording to Choi. The company released a new smartwatch on Wednesday, Galaxy Watch 8, which is First smartwatch Embedded with Gemini AI of Google. $ 299 Watch Brokers Advanced fitness tracking, sleep coaching and stress monitoring.
Samsung Galaxy Watch 8. Photographer: Michael Nagle/Bloomberg via Getty Image
Samsung is not recently the only company to indicate a push in AI devices. Earlier this week, Openai $ 6.5 billion deal stopped To buy IO, AI device startup co-established by former Apple Designer Jony IVE. Acquisition, the largest so far from Openi, brought over IO 55-individual team Openai for engineers, designers, and researchers to work on working equipment with OpenIAI.
Meanwhile, Meta has experienced unexpected success with its Ray-Ban Meta AI Smart Glass, which has been sold. More than two million pairs Since the launch of October 2023. Glasses allow users to ask questions to Meta AI, take pictures and videos and answer the call.
Last month, Meta introduced a waterproof pair of AI smart glasses leading towards athletes, Okle Meta GlassesAnd is allegedly working on another pair of glasses under the Prada brand. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg also previously previewed a prototype of 3D avatar at the Meta Connect event in September, or a hologram project.
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Other technical companies are following the meta in smart glass space. Google said in May that it was $ 150 million dedicated To develop AI glasses with Warbi Parker, with new glasses coming after 2025. Apple is also allegedly developing its first pair of smart glasses and Running focus group To indicate what employees liked about smart glasses from contestants like meta.
Choi told CNN that Samsung is also working on smart glasses, which May be launched at the end of this yearHowever, Choi says that Samsung is trying to expand with more prudent form factors in other types of devices.
“We are actively working on glasses, but some people do not want to wear glasses because they change their looks,” Choi told the outlet. “So we are also searching for other types of equipment.”
Not all AI tools are echoed with consumers. Startup Human introduced $ 699 wearable AI PIN as a smartphone option in April 2024, but the device, which the users could pin into their clothing, fell flat with critics due to overheating and backward reactions. Human shut down the AI PIN less than a year before its release and sold himself to HP for about $ 116 million in February.
An Samsung -based executive revealed that the company is looking into a new line of AI wearing equipment that is doubled as jewelry, including AI necklace and earrings.
Samsung Chief Operating Officer for Mobile, Won-Joon Choi, Told CNN This week that the company is actively searching for a category of AI devices that “you don’t need to carry,” and can wear it on your person instead.
Connected: The purpose of Samsung’s latest Galaxy Gadget is to see ‘How productive you can be’
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