Jennifer Pattison Tuohy takes us on her recent adventures in smart home gadgets, focusing on the rise of smart locks. Chris Welch joins to test the microphones on new earbuds from Bose, Apple, Google, Nothing, and Samsung.
When we talk about the smart home , we often talk about grand visions of perfectly automated everything. You know the ones: you wake up well rested thanks to some bedside light thing, and as you stretch luxuriously toward the ceiling, a sensor notices and turns on the coffee pot, starts steaming the sauna, and plays a curated playlist of all your favorite songs. It sounds nice! It is... mostly not how the smart home actually works.
Microphones matter more than ever as we interact with multimodal AI models and make TikToks all day, but too many headphone makers still make sacrifices. Bose, Apple, Google, Nothing, and Samsung have all released new models recently, so we put the buds to the coffee shop test. Finally, we answer a hotline question about wearables — more specifically, whether ugly wearables ever even had a chance.
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