Gear News of the Week: Always-Recording Smart Glasses, and Google Teases a New Nest Speaker

First, they showed the world how easy it is to add facial recognition to Meta's smart glasses. Former Harvard students Caine Ardayfio and AnhPhu Nguyen this week announced Halo, a startup of roughly 11 people working to develop always-recording smart glasses. The pair dropped out of Harvard to develop Halo X, smart glasses with a display on the lens that can answer any question someone asks. Powered by a combination of Google's Gemini and Perplexity large language models, the idea is that these glasses will always be listening to the world around you via the built-in microphones (there won't be a camera in this first model.) If someone asks, "What's the capital of Peru?" just look at the display on the glasses, and you'll be able to see the answer.