Timekettle W4 AI Interpreter Earbuds: bone-voiceprint, 0.2s real-time dialogue

Posted by – January 11, 2026
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Timekettle introduces the W4 AI Interpreter Earbuds, built around a “shared-earbud” workflow for two-way, face-to-face translation. Two people each wear one earbud, while the phone app assigns languages and routes audio so each side hears the right translation stream. Voice pickup combines a bone-voiceprint (bone-conduction vibration) sensor with microphones to improve speech capture in loud places. https://www.timekettle.co/products/w4-ai-interpreter-earbuds

In the demo, the interviewer speaks Danish while Ela speaks Chinese, with left/right earbuds mapped to the two participants so the channels don’t get mixed. The intent is to avoid the stop-start feel of typical translator apps: you talk normally, and the system plays back the translated audio fast enough to keep eye contact and cadence. This clip was filmed at CES Las Vegas 2026, which is a useful stress test because booth floors are packed with competing voices and PA noise.

On the spec side, Timekettle highlights ~0.2 s response time, “self-correcting” context-aware translation, and Babel OS 2.0 running on the companion app. Marketing claims include operation in environments up to roughly 100 dB and up to 98% translation accuracy, which in practice will vary by language pair, speaking style, and domain vocabulary. Language coverage is described as about 42–43 languages with roughly 95–96 accents, aimed at real conversational flow.

The company says it has been building translation earbuds for around 10 years, and the interview corrects the scale to about 150k users rather than “millions.” Pricing mentioned for W4 is $349, positioning it for travel, expo meetings, and quick multilingual coordination where hands-free audio separation beats passing a phone back and forth, today.

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HumanBeam on faytech 86″ 4K touch TalkToMeAI: agentic avatar kiosk for clinics, resorts, training

Posted by – January 11, 2026
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HumanBeam is positioning “embodied AI” as a step beyond a text chatbot: a lifelike avatar trained on a defined knowledge base, delivered through a BeamBox-style 3D kiosk so the interaction feels like speaking with a front-desk companion. The emphasis is on agentic behavior—answering questions while also driving the next action (directions, check-in steps, forms, escalation), rather than dumping info and leaving the user to assemble the workflow. https://humanbeam.io/talktomeai

The demo was filmed at CES Las Vegas 2026 on the faytech booth, where the avatar runs on public-space display hardware instead of a typical monitor. faytech frames the install around an 86-inch 3840×2160 panel with optical bonding and infrared multi-touch, aimed at readability and durability for lobbies, clinics, and city kiosks. In the booth setup, they call out high-brightness operation (around the 1000-nit class) so the face and UI stay legible under show-floor lighting, in 4K.

For hospitality, the avatar becomes a travel guide or concierge trained on resort and local content, designed for walk-up, high-volume conversation and multilingual coverage (they cite 27 languages). When requests cross policy, liability, or “needs a human” boundaries, the same channel can switch from AI to a live remote staff member via a beam-in handoff, keeping context and reducing friction for late-night arrivals or accessibility needs, in care.

In education and healthcare, HumanBeam highlights virtual patient simulation for universities: configurable personas that let schools run repeatable ER and intake scenarios while observing how students ask questions and make decisions. On the operational side, the same interface can offload intake, wayfinding, and routine FAQ in a clinic, then escalate to a nurse or doctor only when needed—shifting humans away from admin loops and back toward empathy and triage.

A notable technical thread is “intent-based” interaction: the avatar infers what a visitor is trying to accomplish, captures qualified leads, and can surface context-relevant prompts without forcing a rigid script. The booth also acknowledges constraints such as needing reliable connectivity for some sessions, plus privacy and consent questions that come with vision cues, sentiment signals, and analytics in a public kiosk. The positioning is less “replace staff” and more “extend staff capacity” with a consistent, human-like front-end role.

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Looking Glass hololuminescent display + faytech glasses-free 3D digital signage, 16″ FHD and 27″ 4K

Posted by – January 10, 2026
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Looking Glass and faytech walk through a new Hololuminescent Display (HLD) platform aimed at group-viewable, glasses-free 3D for digital signage and in-store product presentation. The core idea is a light-field optical stack that creates a fixed “holographic volume” while staying slim enough to mount like a normal screen, roughly under an inch thick on the shipping sizes. https://lookingglassfactory.com/hld-overview

The demo focuses on how parallax behaves in the real world: as you move your head, the background shifts naturally while a foreground layer can stay readable for UI, giving a hybrid of conventional 2D interface plus spatial content inside a visible “box.” Because it’s autostereoscopic and multi-view, it stays convincing for multiple people at once, and even reads well on camera for people filming the display.

They also outline the initial lineup and positioning versus earlier, more developer-centric light-field systems. HLD 16 is a 16-inch portrait display listed at 1080p, while HLD 27 is a 27-inch portrait display listed at 4K UHD, both designed for plug-and-play deployments and repeatable content loops. The pricing discussed is about $1,500 for the 16-inch unit and about $3,000 for the 27-inch unit.

On the deployment side, they frame HLD as a “taster” for retail endcaps and kiosks, with optional touchscreen integration through the faytech partnership, so a standard touch UI can sit alongside a floating 3D product render. Brightness is described around 500–600 nits in the booth context, with the implication that higher-brightness builds can be handled as a specialty build. This interview was filmed at CES Las Vegas 2026 inside the faytech booth area.

Finally, the conversation lands on AI-driven characters as a natural fit for spatial displays: Looking Glass previously built an early 3D chatbot concept (Lightforms) and now expects partners to bring modern LLM-driven agents onto this kind of hardware. The practical takeaway is that a conversational character, brand mascot, or guided product explainer becomes more “present” when it occupies depth in a shared viewing volume, even when driven by modest on-site compute like a tablet or signage player.

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Cuneflow E-Ink notebook demo: multimodal pen + audio, meeting library context, privacy

Posted by – January 10, 2026
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Cuneflow is building a voice+ink notebook that treats handwriting and audio as the primary inputs, then turns them into searchable transcripts and compact AI summaries. The core idea is simple: capture ideas at the speed of a pen, but keep the output as structured meeting notes you can actually retrieve later, without living in a laptop UI. https://www.cuneflow.com

Instead of being “just another notes app,” the device revolves around two surfaces: Meeting and Library. You import reference material into a Library (for example via Google Drive), and the notebook uses that corpus as context for summarizing what was said in a meeting. This interview was filmed at CES Las Vegas 2026, where the pitch is a focused, paper-like workflow rather than a full tablet experience here.

On the hardware side, it’s an E-Ink display with a front light, running Android under a custom interface designed around pen input. You can write normal notes, but also draw quick symbols (a star, a smile, a scribble) to mark emphasis, and the system is meant to connect those marks to the audio timeline so key moments surface in the summary. Think multimodal note-taking: ink strokes + speech-to-text + semantic indexing, all in one place to write.

Cuneflow also draws a boundary around collaboration: they’re not trying to replace Notion/Lark with real-time co-editing on the device, and they intentionally avoid pushing heavy typing on a glass keyboard. The point is low-friction capture during a meeting, with Wi-Fi sync as the transport layer (and the option to record even when connectivity is weak, then reconcile later). It’s a “capture first, organize later” model, tuned for speed and focus fast.

Security comes up quickly in any voice-transcription product, and they emphasize encryption plus compliance work, with an explicit stance that user data is not used to train their model. Processing is described as server-backed, but with a path for enterprises to host their own model if they need tighter control. On the roadmap: more microphones, a thinner chassis, newer compute silicon, and ongoing OTA software updates as the UI and summarization quality evolve later.

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VOCCI AI note-taking ring: tap highlights, 8h recording, 5m pickup, phone transcript

Posted by – January 10, 2026
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VOCCI (by Gyges Labs) is trying to make “capture mode” frictionless: a titanium smart ring that records conversations and turns them into searchable AI notes. Instead of pulling out a phone or opening a laptop, you double-click the ring’s button to start audio capture, then wear it like any other piece of jewelry — 3–5 g, designed for all-day use, with a charging case for top-ups.
https://vocci.ai/

What stands out is the interaction model: tap while recording to “highlight” a moment that matters, so the summary doesn’t treat every sentence as equal. Audio can stay on the ring until you sync to the companion app, where speech-to-text transcription feeds an AI agent that produces meeting notes, decisions, and action-style recaps, with prompts you can customize for your own reporting format.

From a systems perspective, Vocci is closer to a wearable voice recorder than a health ring: it targets roughly 8 hours of continuous recording and advertises an effective pickup range around 5 meters, aimed at classrooms or conference rooms. The interview was filmed at CES Las Vegas 2026, and the focus is on capturing natural dialogue without needing your phone in hand, then letting the phone do the heavier AI processing later.

Design details matter for a device you’ll actually keep on: aerospace-grade titanium for durability and skin tolerance, multiple sizes, and color options that should ship with the same base material. The team describes itself as California-based, and pricing wasn’t final in the demo, though early coverage suggests it may land under the $200 mark, positioning it against dedicated recorders and other “memory” wearables without forcing a bulky gadget vibe.

The bigger idea is selective recall: the ring becomes a physical “bookmark” for your brain, with highlight taps acting like labels for decisions, names, or sparks of insight. VOCCI says it plans to launch around mid-February, with broader shipping later in 2026, so the real test will be transcript quality in noisy spaces and how well the AI stays faithful to context when you need the note to be ready.

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Ascentiz Modular Exoskeleton: swappable hip/knee assist, BodyOS open-source, USB-C API

Posted by – January 10, 2026
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Ascentiz is building a modular, belt-based exoskeleton that treats mobility assist like a plug-in platform: snap on a hip module for extra propulsion and energy return during walking, stairs, hills, and even running, then pair it with other modules when you need more support. In the demo, the hip assist is described as giving an extra push up or down slopes and cutting perceived effort by around 30%, with a swappable battery rated for about 10 hours or roughly 15.5 miles per pack. https://ascentizexo.com/

The interesting part is the architecture: a central control box acts as the “brain,” exposing a standard module interface and API, with physical connectivity shown as USB-C. Ascentiz calls the software layer BodyOS, framed as an open, developer-friendly “Android-like” stack for exoskeleton modules, so third parties can build compatible hip, knee, or upper-body attachments and still share sensing, power management, and coordinated control.

On the motion side, the system leans on onboard sensing and gait/motion algorithms to switch profiles for walking, uphill/downhill, stairs, running, or biking without feeling like a rigid robot frame. This interview was filmed around CES Las Vegas 2026, and the pitch is that consumer exosuits are finally getting small enough (higher power-density motors, better packaging, and quick-swap batteries) to be worn for real activities rather than lab demos.

Use cases go beyond “superhuman hiking”: camera operators hauling heavy rigs, workers lifting and carrying, and anyone who wants reduced fatigue across long days on foot. They also talk about assisted mobility for older adults and people with weak knees/legs, where added stability and strength could reduce fatigue and help lower fall risk, with a quick on/off setup time around half a minute.

Commercially, Ascentiz positions the hip module as the entry point (quoted at $1,499 in this clip), with a knee-support module at $2,499, and optional upper-body pieces coming from partners via the same modular interface. They say they’ve completed a Kickstarter campaign around $2.5M with 2,000+ backers and are targeting mass production and initial deliveries around March, which will be a good real-world test of comfort, durability, and how well BodyOS can attract module makers at scale.

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Waterdrop A1 Reverse Osmosis Water Bar: 0.0001µm membrane, 6 temps, 5 volumes

Posted by – January 10, 2026
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Waterdrop’s A1 countertop reverse osmosis dispenser is shown as a self-contained way to turn tap water into temperature-controlled drinking water without plumbing. The front OLED screen gives direct control over temperature and dispense volume, with color-coded feedback (blue for cold, red/orange for hot) and a quick stop so you can dose for a cup, bottle, or thermos without guesswork. https://www.waterdropfilter.com/products/ro-hot-cold-water-dispenser-a1

Technically, the A1 is built around a multi-stage RO architecture: a pre-filter stage feeding a 0.0001 µm reverse osmosis membrane, plus UV sterilization intended to keep the internal tanks cleaner over time. Waterdrop’s published claims center on lowering TDS and reducing a wide spread of contaminants that matter in real tap water—PFAS (PFOA/PFOS), chlorine taste/odor, and heavy-metal ions among them—while listing a 2:1 pure-to-drain ratio and a 100 GPD production class output.

Where the product differentiates from a typical countertop purifier is the thermal layer on top of RO. You get six temperature presets spanning roughly 5°C to 95°C (41°F to 203°F), several fixed dispense volumes that auto-stop, and a child-lock that must be held to unlock hot water to reduce burn risk. The UI also references modes like night mode, off-home mode, and altitude mode, and the demo shows hot output arriving in seconds rather than a kettle-style wait at CES Las Vegas 2026.

Because it’s tank-based, portability is the key tradeoff: you refill a feed reservoir and periodically empty a separate wastewater compartment (a normal consequence of RO concentrate). Maintenance is designed around quick cartridge swaps—twist out and replace—with typical guidance of about 6 months for the composite filter and up to 12 months for the RO cartridge, depending on local water quality and how much you use it today.

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Xthings Ultraloq Bolt Sense: palm vein + 3D face smart lock, Matter/Aliro, UWB

Posted by – January 10, 2026
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Xthings has spent more than a decade building smart access hardware that tries to feel “invisible”: you walk up, authenticate, and the door behaves like it understands intent. In this interview, the focus is on stacking multiple credentials—PIN, NFC tap, fingerprint, and now proximity plus computer vision—while keeping broad compatibility with mainstream ecosystems like Apple Home, Google Home, and Samsung SmartThings. https://xthings.com/

A big theme is proximity done properly. Their ultra-wideband (UWB) smart lock uses ranging to judge distance and approach direction, so it can unlock when you actually reach for the handle, not just because you walked nearby with a UWB phone. If you don’t have UWB, the same lineup supports NFC tap, keypad code entry, and (on some models) a physical key override, plus digital key sharing for households and small teams at the door.

For higher assurance, Xthings is pushing multi-modal biometrics with Ultraloq Bolt Sense: palm-vein authentication plus 3D facial recognition. Palm vein ID typically uses near-infrared imaging to read sub-surface vascular patterns, which can work even with wet hands or in low light, and it’s generally harder to spoof than many surface-level biometrics. The conversation also touches standards-first thinking, with newer locks like the Latch 7 Pro leaning on Matter over Thread for local control and Aliro-style interoperability for access credentials, while still offering familiar fallbacks.

The “Urban Guardian” concept stretches the same identity + sensing ideas into public space hardware. It’s presented as a self-contained safety node for streets or corporate campuses: solar panels charging an internal battery, 4G connectivity, 360° cameras, lighting, and an SOS/info interface, without trenching cables or deep backend integration. Practical touches like MagSafe-style wireless charging suggest it’s designed for real-world dwell time, not just passive monitoring at night.

On the monitoring side, the Ulticam camera line adds Matter-ready devices and Google Gemini-powered video understanding, shifting alerts from generic motion to more contextual summaries (like recognizing a delivery event). The lineup is positioned around details like 4K/HDR capture, wide field of view, two-way audio, and common installs such as PoE, alongside variants that emphasize floodlighting or longer-range wireless options. Filmed at CES Las Vegas 2026, the story here is less about one gadget and more about how access control, identity, and AI video context can converge into one cross-platform stack.

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Beetles Gel Polish Zodiac Kit: UV/LED curing lamp, mini colors, DIY nail art

Posted by – January 10, 2026
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Beetles Gel Polish walks through a compact “Aucus” gift set built around zodiac themes: the color selection is meant to match a sign’s vibe, while the box bundles the core tools for a full gel manicure in one place. Alongside multiple mini gel bottles, you get a UV/LED nail lamp, nail art brushes, and small themed extras like pendants, so you’re not buying the essentials piece by piece. The smaller bottle format also makes it easier to treat this as a travel-friendly kit rather than a drawer full of full-size bottles. https://beetlesgel.com/

From a technical angle, the pitch is about accessible soak-off gel workflow for DIY users: thin, controlled layers, LED/UV curing with consistent exposure, and enough pigment variety to build simple looks without mixing. A bundled lamp matters because cure quality is what drives wear time and scratch resistance; under-curing can leave soft layers, while over-curing can make removal harder. If you’re doing gel at home, the usual best practice still applies: prep/dehydrate the nail plate, keep product off skin (allergen risk), fully cure each layer, then remove with acetone soak-off and gentle push, with basic skin care.

The brand positioning here is “online-first but moving into shelves,” starting from Amazon popularity and social discovery, then expanding toward big-box and pharmacy retail. In the interview, they mention Walmart and Target, with CVS referenced as an upcoming channel, which is a typical path for consumer beauty brands once packaging, compliance, and merchandising are ready. The conversation was filmed at CES Las Vegas 2026 during the Impact Global Connect event, so it’s framed as a quick booth intro rather than a long-form tutorial, with the focus on what’s inside the box and how it fits DIY habits in the US market.

What’s most interesting is how the product strategy leans into frequent seasonal drops: rotating curated palettes (often 20–30+ colors in mini format) plus small “collector” elements, making the set feel like a ready-made gift or starter pack. If you’re used to pro salon systems with larger bottles and strict base/top coat pairings, this is aimed more at variety and convenience than building a single locked-in system. They also note that Europe isn’t the current launch focus, so for now the availability story is primarily US retail and online, with the kit concept built around quick, complete setups you can actually finish at home today

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Benks DuPont Kevlar phone cases: 600D vs 1500D weave, TPU bumpers, MagSafe

Posted by – January 10, 2026
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Benks focuses on protective accessories built around genuine DuPont Kevlar aramid fiber, aiming for cases that stay very thin and light while still handling daily wear. In this interview they show a limited Chinese New Year “Year of the Horse” edition, using the woven pattern as both structure and design language, and clarify that “Kevlar-grade” doesn’t mean the phone is bulletproof even if similar fibers are used in ballistic gear. https://www.benks.com/

A key technical thread is how Benks differentiates 600D vs 1500D Kevlar: denier relates to fiber density, and changing it affects weave tightness, visual contrast, and surface texture. The talk frames it as a tactile choice too—rougher grip versus a smoother feel—while keeping the same core benefits of aramid fiber: high tensile strength for its mass, low thickness, and minimal bulk in hand.

The broader story is case engineering as materials plus ergonomics, filmed at CES Las Vegas 2026. Ultra-thin aramid shells can feel excellent and pocket well, but edge impacts are difficult to solve at very low thickness, so Benks also shows variants that add a TPU perimeter to improve drop behavior while keeping the Kevlar backplate aesthetic. They also highlight fitment work for foldables, and even mention being ready with a tri-fold style case for a newly launched Samsung foldable shown here.

Pricing is positioned around $40–$55 in the conversation, with a strong emphasis on authenticity: many “Kevlar-looking” patterns in the market are carbon fiber or generic aramid, while Benks points to DuPont licensing and consistent weave quality. The practical takeaway is to pick between maximum thinness and texture, or a hybrid build with TPU edges for a more forgiving drop profile, plus an ecosystem angle that extends the same material theme into items like power banks and stands ahead.

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Pluggable Thunderbolt 5 Dock TBT-UDH2: 140W PD, dual HDMI 2.1, 2.5GbE, 120Gbps Bandwidth Boost

Posted by – January 9, 2026
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Pluggable founder Bernie Thompson explains why docking stations keep evolving: laptops lose ports, but workflows still demand power delivery, fast I/O, wired networking, and stable external displays over a single cable. The 2026 flagship Thunderbolt 5 dock is framed as a response to real connector habits—more USB-C, higher-wattage charging, and native display outputs people actually use in daily desk setups. https://plugable.com/products/tbt-udh2

In this booth chat from CES Las Vegas 2026, the dock’s layout is shown from the back: 180W input, up to 140W host charging, multiple USB-C data+power ports, dual HDMI, and Ethernet. Thunderbolt 5’s 80Gbps baseline with 120Gbps Bandwidth Boost lets a dock target high-refresh multi-monitor modes (for example dual 4K at 144Hz-class loads, with 8K modes depending on host and display). Pluggable also leans into a fanless mechanical design, plus 2.5GbE and UHS-II SD/microSD for media ingest here.

The technical subtext is that “one port to everything” only works when link negotiation is solid: TB5/USB4 tunneling, cable quality, monitor EDID behavior, and OS-specific display limits can all bite. Pluggable’s compatibility-first approach is about taming those edge cases, so storage, capture devices, and high-speed peripherals behave predictably across Windows and macOS with care.

The second demo uses Thunderbolt as external PCIe: a TB enclosure that hosts a desktop-class GPU, framed less as an eGPU gaming box and more as an AI inference engine. For local LLMs, the bottleneck is often VRAM and privacy, not peak frame rate—so a higher-memory card can load models quickly, generate tokens locally, and keep prompts and documents off the cloud. They also mention an in-house Plugable Chat app (Apache 2.0) built to run “chat with your data” workflows, including RAG over internal document stores inside.

Taken together, it’s a snapshot of docks turning into workstation front-ends: power, displays, Ethernet, removable media, and now desk-side AI acceleration over the same Thunderbolt fabric. If you’re building a dependable laptop-to-desk setup, the practical advice is to budget power, validate monitor modes (refresh matters as much as resolution), and treat cables as part of the system, not an afterthought today.

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iFixit FixHub USB-C 100W Smart Soldering + 55Wh Battery, Repairable Design

Posted by – January 9, 2026
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iFixit sits at the intersection of practical electronics work and sustainability: a huge, free library of repair manuals plus the parts and tooling to actually complete the job, whether it’s a phone, a laptop, or something as mundane as a small appliance. In this interview, Liz Chamberlain (Director of Sustainability) frames repair as a capability problem: if you own hardware, you should be able to maintain it, diagnose it, and restore it instead of treating it as sealed, disposable gear. https://www.ifixit.com/products/fixhub-power-series-portable-soldering-station

The hardware centerpiece is FixHub, a USB-C Power Delivery smart soldering iron system built around a 100W iron and a dual-port portable power station. The pack is rated 55Wh and is positioned as an “off-bench” setup: fast heat-up, sustained work time (quoted as up to 8 hours continuous), and the ability to run two irons with shared power limits when both ports are used. Temperature control is part of the point here, with a working range roughly 100°C to 420°C, plus safety behaviors like auto-standby and tip/heat indication via an illuminated ring.

What makes the demo feel real is that it’s not just “solder goes on”: it’s also rework. Chamberlain shows a beginner-friendly workflow, including desoldering an LED installed backwards, using copper braid (wick) to pull solder off pads—exactly the kind of mistake that turns “learning to solder” into “learning to debug assembly.” iFixit’s upcoming learn-to-solder kit leans into that by putting the instructions directly onto the PCB, while the commercial bundle pricing lands around $80 for the iron, about $250 for the iron plus battery station, and roughly $300 for a fuller kit with consumables and hand tools.

On the policy and product-design side, the conversation lands where iFixit often applies pressure: right-to-repair legislation and manufacturer choices that determine whether repair is routine or painful. They’re active in both EU and US advocacy, and the example that keeps coming up is batteries—moving away from aggressive adhesive, fragile pull-tabs, and solvent-based removal toward designs that are truly user-replaceable. It’s consistent with the FixHub philosophy too: screws, teardown guidance, and even 3D-printable case files so the tool itself is not a black box.

Finally, there’s the information layer: iFixit’s guides are split between in-house technical writers (often with engineering backgrounds) and a community-edited wiki model, which makes the content both broad and self-correcting. That same corpus has become training fodder for AI crawlers, so iFixit responded with its own mobile app and FixBot, an AI repair assistant that uses their manuals to ask diagnostic questions, route you to the right guide, and support voice or camera-based “show me what’s broken” workflows while still nudging users toward the photos and steps. The interview was filmed at CES Las Vegas 2026, where repairability, tool ecosystems, and AI-assisted troubleshooting are starting to converge in a very practical way today.

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OWC Thunderblade X12 192TB: 12x NVMe RAID via SoftRAID over Thunderbolt 5

Posted by – January 9, 2026
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OWC (Other World Computing) is framing Thunderbolt 5 storage as a way to keep “local-first” media workflows fast enough that you stop thinking about ports, bandwidth, and copy time, and instead treat external NVMe like a real extension of your workstation. The focus here is bus-powered performance, predictable sustained throughput, and RAID that stays readable across Mac and PC without being trapped behind a proprietary controller.
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On the portable side, the Envoy Ultra is positioned as a single-SSD Thunderbolt 5 drive that pushes into the 6,000 MB/s class on burst and stays in a much higher baseline than typical USB-C SSDs once caches are exhausted. In the conversation, they describe roughly the first ~10% of the capacity sustaining the top band, then settling into about 1,600–1,800 MB/s for longer transfers, which is still very usable for large camera originals, proxies, and scratch media. The enclosure is engineered for passive heat dissipation (no fan, no dust ingress path), and the emphasis is on rugged, field-friendly behavior under real copy pressure and heat.

The bigger “desktop-on-a-cable” concept is the Thunderblade X12: a 12-drive NVMe array scaling by 12-drive increments up to 192 TB, aimed at high-throughput editing, ingest, and on-set shuttling where capacity and sustained speed matter more than peak benchmarks. RAID modes mentioned include 0/1/4/5/10, with RAID 6 planned, and the pitch is end-to-end sustained transfer in the 6,000 MB/s range without thermal throttling even on very large moves. The physical design leans into a heavy-duty heatsink approach to keep performance consistent under load.

A key layer is SoftRAID: software-defined RAID with drive health monitoring and early warning, plus practical interoperability for creators who bounce between macOS and Windows. The point isn’t “RAID replaces backup” (they explicitly call out keeping backups), but that if the enclosure ever dies, the data layout isn’t locked to a proprietary bridge chip—move the blades to another compatible setup and the volume can come back. Thunderbolt 5 also helps with system-level plumbing: where older buses could see display traffic steal priority and cut storage throughput, the added headroom makes it easier to run high-res monitors and fast storage on the same connection without the same penalty.

They also highlight the often-ignored weak link: cabling. A certified 2 m Thunderbolt 5 cable means you can actually place storage, docks, or displays off-desk without gambling on random USB-C wiring, signal integrity, or intermittent drops. This interview was filmed at CES Las Vegas 2026, and it lands as a pragmatic look at how bandwidth, thermals, RAID metadata, and certification details add up to fewer workflow surprises on set.

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Ambiq Apollo510B edge AI SoC: Cortex-M55 Helium, BLE 5.4, on-chip SRAM/NVM

Posted by – January 9, 2026
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Ambiq frames its mission as “ambient intelligence”: ultra-low-power Arm Cortex-M microcontrollers and SoCs that keep sensing, listening, and rendering without treating the cloud as a default. The core differentiator is SPOT sub-threshold design, running transistors at very low voltage margins so meaningful edge AI can fit inside tighter power, heat, and battery limits. https://ambiq.com/apollo510/

On the silicon side, the Apollo5 family moves from Cortex-M4 into Cortex-M55 plus Helium (MVE) vector extensions, effectively adding an on-device AI/ML DSP path for int8 and floating-point workloads. Apollo510-class parts pair that compute with big on-chip memory and wide internal buses to avoid costly off-chip RAM/flash I/O; Ambiq highlighted configurations around 4 MB SRAM and 4 MB non-volatile memory, plus a microcontroller-scale GPU aimed at smooth UI on a small die.

A concrete edge-compute example is AR eyewear: Even Realities smart glasses use Apollo510B to drive dual microLED microdisplays, manage multi-layer graphics, and run local audio pipelines like beamforming, noise reduction, and speech enhancement. The interview was recorded during the Pepcom media event around CES in Las Vegas 2026, and it tied this workload to the broader shift from watches to rings, shoes, and other placements where thickness, mass, and thermal budget are hard constraint.

Ambiq positions the MCU as radio-agnostic—cellular, LoRa, Zigbee, or a nearby gateway—while wireless variants integrate Bluetooth Low Energy 5.4 and a dedicated network processor for low-duty connectivity. That maps cleanly onto “sensor hub” architectures: keep a Cortex-A Linux/Android host asleep, fuse sensors and do always-on inference on Cortex-M, then wake the heavy core only when something is worth sending through the gate.

The power story is really about system behavior: keep radios off, ship answers instead of streams, and even compress signals like PPG data by up to about 16× when you must preserve raw traces for later analysis. Ambiq also hinted at next-gen “Atomic” devices with a neural processor for local video triggers (package detection, security cues), and noted it began trading on the New York Stock Exchange under AMBQ on July 30, 2025, putting more visibility on its edge.

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YUAN industrial AI camera cooled by Frore Systems AirJet PAK 5C-G2 + 1C cools Jetson Orin NX Super

Posted by – January 9, 2026
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This video looks at an industrial edge-vision camera built by YUAN and thermally enabled by Frore Systems, where cooling is treated as part of the compute stack rather than an afterthought. The enclosure integrates an AirJet PAK 5C-G2 to keep an NVIDIA Jetson Orin NX in “Super Mode” running at sustained power, plus a smaller 1C pack dedicated to the FPGA and local SSD so the whole pipeline stays stable under continuous load. https://www.froresystems.com/products/airjet-r-pak

Instead of a fan or a large passive heat sink, AirJet uses solid-state active air cooling with vibration-free airflow, which matters for imaging modules where micro-vibration can soften detail and hurt downstream inference. Frore quotes up to 45 W of net heat dissipation for the 5C-G2 in a compact 100 mm × 65 mm × 10 mm module, while the AirJet Mini G2 building block is rated around 7.5 W per chip, so designers can scale cooling like they scale throughput.

On the AI side, the demo focuses on real-time vision workloads: object detection, categorization, and a vision-language step that turns the live scene into a short text description. That “image-to-text” output is a practical interface for industrial automation, safety, and inspection because it can feed logs, alerts, and downstream rule engines without streaming video offsite, which is exactly the kind of sustained edge workload shown on the CES Las Vegas 2026 floor.

The underlying point is that fanless edge cameras often throttle or grow into heavy metal blocks when you try to hold peak throughput for long runs. By cooling the Jetson module and the surrounding acceleration and storage components separately, and keeping the system dust-resilient and water-resistant, the design aims for steady frame timing and consistent AI latency in a compact industrial camera.

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GlocalMe PetPhone: 4G CloudSIM pet wearable with 1080p camera, AI wellness, 6-tech GPS

Posted by – January 9, 2026
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GlocalMe presents PetPhone as a collar-mounted “pet smartphone”: a 4G LTE wearable that combines tracking, health/activity signals, and real-time calling so you can speak to a dog or cat from the app. The underlying trick is CloudSIM (SIM-less roaming), letting the device attach to local networks worldwide without swapping a card. The demo also calls out a subscription model around $5/month for connectivity. https://www.glocalme.com/

PetPhone is framed as a practical IoT node: geofences and escape alerts, a live route view, and a “6-layer” positioning stack (GPS/AGPS, LBS, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, plus active radar for close-range finding). Two-way voice is the core interaction, and the demo mentions trained “call triggers” (a triple-jump gesture) so a pet can initiate a session; the PetPhone C+ Suite is also described with a 1080p camera and multiple viewing angles. The plan is described as “unlimited” data, but battery is presented as about two hours of continuous video capture, or roughly a week when used mainly as a tracker and occasional check-in for care.

The PetPogo ecosystem adds PetCam, a lightweight wearable camera often framed around 25 g, designed for both pet-eye POV and a wider monitoring view. That turns “where is my pet” into short contextual clips you can review, save, and optionally share in an in-app community feed, so the system becomes part tracker, part behavior log. This interview was filmed at the Global Connect showcase during CES Las Vegas 2026, and it captures how pet tech is converging on telemetry plus bite-size media from their side of the collar, not just a static map pin, with pet-eye POV.

Zooming out, the pet line sits on top of GlocalMe’s travel-connectivity catalog: SIM-free portable hotspots with flexible passes (GB bundles, day, month, or annual), plus hardware that hides a modem inside everyday objects. The booth shows RoamPlug (a travel adapter with an embedded 4G hotspot) and UniCord (a USB-C fast-charge cable that can spin up Wi-Fi when plugged in), alongside 5G mobile Wi-Fi and even 5G + satellite/NTN concepts that can auto-switch links to keep you online as you roam.

If you’re evaluating PetPhone beyond the fun “call your dog” moment, focus on operational details: how accurate the multi-radio location is in dense areas, whether action recognition and wellness trend alerts stay meaningful across breeds, and how permissions work when multiple family members want access. The mechanical choices matter too—chew resistance, waterproofing, and avoiding a swallowable form factor—because pet wearables fail more from real life than RF specs. Put together, it’s a neat case study in how CloudSIM, sensors, and UX design meet in pet IoT here.

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Dreame A3 AWD Pro: 360° 3D LiDAR + dual AI vision, 4WD hub motors, EdgeMaster 2.0

Posted by – January 9, 2026
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Dreame’s A3 AWD Pro is a wire-free robotic lawn mower built around sensor-driven mapping rather than perimeter cables. The core idea is OmniSense 3.0 navigation: a 360° 3D LiDAR stack fused with dual AI “binocular” cameras, so the mower can localize, recognize boundaries, and keep a consistent mowing line even in irregular garden geometry. In the demo you see it identify the virtual boundary, back off, and re-plan, with most control happening from a phone app. https://www.dreametech.com/products/a3-awd-pro-robot-lawn-mower

Mechanically, the AWD part matters: 4WD hub motors and a treaded wheel design target slippery grass, ruts, and transitions. Dreame quotes up to 80% (about 38.7°) climbing and crossing up to 5.5 cm obstacles, which is the difference between handling a garden edge and getting beached on it. The mower is also positioned to cope with thicker growth (Dreame mentions grass up to roughly 15 cm) and to mulch through light leaf fall in one pass too.

Cutting hardware is aimed at both coverage and finishing: a 40 cm dual-disc deck with 3–10 cm height adjustment, plus EdgeMaster 2.0 to trim close to borders with around 1.5 cm edge precision when the path runs tight. The workflow is “map once, maintain continuously,” where the garden becomes a live map in the app and the mower can stream video telemetry so you can verify what it thinks the boundary is without walking the whole yard. Shown at CES Las Vegas 2026, it’s a practical snapshot of how consumer LiDAR robotics is moving outdoors today.

Obstacle handling is where the sensor fusion earns its keep. The A3 AWD Pro is designed to classify and avoid 300+ common yard objects, and it has a “pet friendly” behavior that slows down and turns away as it approaches animals. That matters for toys, branches, and the unpredictable stuff that breaks autonomy, and it’s also a safety layer when you’ve got kids or pets nearby. Dreame also leans on frequent firmware updates to refine detection models and path planning over time, month after month regularly.

On timing and cost, Dreame’s CES messaging points to a Q1 rollout, with European availability called out from March 2026 for the A3 AWD Pro series. Published pricing in Europe is €2,599 for the A3 AWD Pro 3500 and €2,999 for the A3 AWD Pro 5000, with regional pricing likely varying by channel and warranty terms, so treat those as launch anchors rather than a final global price.

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Inmo Air3 1080p waveguide AR glasses: Snapdragon, ring control, 36° FOV

Posted by – January 9, 2026
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INMO Air3 is positioned as an all-in-one AR glasses computer: dual-eye 1920×1080 Micro-OLED feeding a full-color RGB optical waveguide, with a 36° field of view aimed at making UI and text readable rather than “notification only”. The demo also shows a sunglasses clip that flips the optics between tinted and clear mode. https://www.inmoxr.com/pages/inmo-air3

What makes this category hard is interaction, and INMO leans into multiple input paths: a touchpad on the glasses temple plus hardware buttons, a pocketable touchpad “mouse”, and a smart ring that acts like a spatial controller. In the interview the ring is framed as enabling a multi-window workflow (up to three floating screens) without reaching for a phone, which is the difference between “phone accessory” and wearable computing.

This walkthrough was filmed at CES Las Vegas 2026, where the conversation turns from display specs to real usage: Android-based apps, lightweight media viewing, and the idea of running assistants (ChatGPT, Gemini, DeepSeek) as AR utilities like teleprompter prompts, translation overlays, and an always-available context note.

On the hardware side, INMO’s published spec list calls out a Qualcomm Snapdragon 8-core platform with 8GB RAM and 128GB storage, plus a 16MP 120° ultra-wide camera with 1080p recording and EIS stabilization. The display stack is rated up to 600 nits and supports 60/120Hz refresh, and the sensor set (accelerometer, gyroscope, magnetometer, ambient light) helps keep head-tracked UI stable during movement.

Battery expectations in this segment land around “a movie or two”, which matches short, high-brightness AR sessions rather than all-day XR. The bigger story is where the product sits in the market: INMO is betting that binocular 1080p waveguide optics paired with ring/touchpad input can make standalone AR feel closer to a wearable PC than a camera-first smart glasses gadget.

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Hengbot Sirius robot dog demo: autonomous mode, camera vision, joystick teleop

Posted by – January 8, 2026
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Hengbot (heard as “HBO Innovation” in the interview) is showing Sirius, a trainable AI robot dog aimed at consumer human-robot interaction: a compact quadruped that blends a camera “face” display, on-device perception, and behavior control that feels closer to a configurable pet than a fixed animatronic. The pitch is less about one scripted demo and more about a platform where personalities, motion “tricks,” and UI can be tuned over time, with a developer angle via exposed APIs. https://hengbot.com/pages/hengbot-sirius-ai-dog-robot

In the booth demo you see multiple control paths—gesture triggers, voice commands, web control on the local network, and a gamepad/joystick for teleop—plus an autonomous mode meant to react to nearby motion. Hardware cues in the build include a forward camera, a small screen for feedback, capacitive touch on the head “hat,” and expressive ear/pose behaviors that simulate attention, sleep, and “annoyed” states when repeatedly poked, all wrapped into a light indoor form.

From the wider product positioning, Sirius is framed as an edge-AI companion with multimodal interaction and a large prebuilt motion library (useful for animation, HRI research, and “creator” workflows), rather than a pure robotics lab platform. That emphasis shows up at CES Las Vegas 2026 as the conversation shifts toward stability, repeatable recovery after falls, and software iteration—trying to make the robot read as lifelike behavior, not just plastic motion, in a tight feedback loop.

The limitations are also part of the story: about 1–1.5 hours of runtime in the current demo unit, and perception features that are still being upgraded (e.g., edge/table detection to avoid stepping off a surface). Viewers will recognize the classic quadruped stack tradeoffs here—balance control, foot placement, contact sensing, and vision-based scene understanding—where small improvements in state estimation and policy tuning can change the whole “pet” illusion in a room.

Kickstarter fulfillment is described in batches, with the team collecting early backer feedback before a broader retail push, and there’s clear demand for a self-charging dock so the dog can roam and return to power without human help. The most interesting long-term thread is customization: if the API access matures, Sirius could become a programmable embodied agent where behavior, voice, and “character” are modular—useful for education demos, elder companionship experiments, or just testing what people actually want from a home robot on the road.

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BLUETTI Booth Tour at CES 2026, Elite, Apex 300, EnergyPro: kWh scaling, 120/240V, DC-DC charging

Posted by – January 8, 2026
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This booth tour frames BLUETTI’s product families as a spectrum from grab-and-go power banks to fixed whole-home energy storage, with the common theme being modular kWh scaling, fast recharge paths, and safer chemistries like LiFePO4 and sodium-ion. The conversation stays practical: what runs a fridge, what survives winter camping, and how you wire portable gear into a home panel without turning it into a permanent install. https://www.bluettipower.com/

On the portable side, the Elite lineup is shown in several sizes, including a rolling Elite 400 style unit aimed at “move it where you need it” backup. Architecturally it’s battery + BMS + inverter + MPPT charging in a single enclosure, exposing AC outlets, DC ports, and solar/car inputs with app telemetry for watts, state-of-charge, and thermal headroom. The booth even uses its own stations to run loads like a demo fridge for power.

A standout demo is BLUETTI’s sodium-ion Pioneer Na concept, positioned for sub-zero performance where lithium packs lose charge acceptance and voltage under load. The key claim is cold-weather usability—discharge in freezing conditions (around the -25°C range) and recharge while it’s still cold—so an off-grid kit is less dependent on warming the pack first. The walk-through was filmed at CES Las Vegas 2026.

System integration is where the stand gets interesting: Apex 300 is discussed as a 120/240V-capable stack that can be expanded with extra batteries and tied together through a hub for higher output. Nearby, the Charger 2 DC-DC unit is framed as alternator-plus-solar aware charging for vehicles, so a power station can take up to roughly 1.2 kW while driving, then fall back to PV when parked to top off quickly.

For stationary backup, EnergyPro is presented as the “don’t move it” category, with 6 kW-class and larger 13 kW-class options aimed at smart distribution, PV coupling, and clean cutover for critical circuits. The tour also touches on a bio-based plastics effort for portable shells (using recycled cooking-oil feedstock) with a stated ~25% reduction in manufacturing emissions, while keeping the enclosure rugged for day-to-day home.

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