I wore a bunch of AI devices at once. It was probably overkill.
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Tech companies want you to buy wearable devices, promising an artificial intelligence boost to your work and your life
Tech companies want you to buy wearable devices, promising an artificial intelligence boost to your work and your life.
I put that promise to the test myself, by giving four products a spin for a few days to see if they could make my complicated life any easier.
So I strapped Amazon’s Bee bracelet onto my wrist ($49.99), popped a pair of Ray-Ban Meta Gen 2 glasses on my face ($329 — $459), slid an Oura Ring onto my finger ($349 — $499) and hung an Omi around my neck ($89). The ring was borrowed from a co-worker, while the other three devices were provided by the companies for testing.
The overall takeaway? AI can make work and play slightly more efficient, but the overlap in functionality makes it clear that more is not necessarily better, and you don’t have to wear four AI products at once to get by. And beyond the jarring aesthetic of wearing all these devices, there’s also the weirdness of walking around with the ability to record people around you — sometimes passively.
The first of the four devices I interacted with upon waking up was the fitness and sleep tracker Oura Ring, the only one that really requires 24-hour usage. Through a chatbot on the app called an “Oura Advisor,” I could ask questions such as how to structure a workout that would meet my activity needs for the day.
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