Samsung is looking into more AI devices – potentially including earrings and necklaces

11.07.2025    WSVN 7 News Miami    12 views
Samsung is looking into more AI devices – potentially including earrings and necklaces

New York CNN Samsung is looking into new wearable devices potentially including earrings and necklaces amid an industry-wide push to develop new types of AI-powered consumer electronics AI could enable a new wave of devices that allow users to communicate and get things done more briskly without having to take out a phone Won-joon Choi chief operating officer for Samsung s mobile experience division notified CNN this week For Samsung these types of new devices could be something you wear around your neck dangle from your ears or slip on your finger We believe it should be wearable something that you shouldn t carry that you don t need to carry he commented So it could be something that you wear glasses earrings watches rings and sometimes a necklace Choi s comments underscore the opportunity tech giants see to develop new hardware products around AI a system that selected say is expected to be as impactful as the internet itself AI services like OpenAI s ChatGPT and Google s Gemini have moved beyond basic text prompts and are getting better at handling complex tasks That s led tech giants to look into devices that require less manual input than smartphones which largely require typing and swiping on screens That search is already in full swing starting with smart glasses Meta has touted its AI-powered Ray-Ban smart glasses of which million have been sold since as a success The Facebook parent also in the past few days acquired a minority stake in Ray-Ban parent company EssilorLuxottica according to Bloomberg further indicating the company s interest in AI-powered wearable gadgets Samsung Google and Snap are also advancing smart glasses while OpenAI and ex-Apple designer Jony Ive are collaborating on a mysterious new AI device for next year When CNN inquired Choi whether Samsung is actively looking into progressing earrings or other smart jewelry like a pendant or bracelet Choi stated the company is looking at all kinds of possibilities What do you wear Glasses earrings necklaces watches and rings something like those he revealed However that doesn t mean those possibilities will become products Samsung and other tech companies routinely develop prototypes and evaluate new technologies internally without bringing them to territory Selected tech startups have already unsuccessfully tried to develop new AI gadgets to replace smartphones at certain tasks The Humane AI Pin created by a pair of Apple veterans flopped because of its high price and buggy performance The company shut down the product and sold parts of itself to computing giant HP in February Another device called the Rabbit R also launched to a lackluster reception last year although it s undergone key updates since then And a startup called Friend created an AI necklace that s meant to be a digital companion although its launch has been delayed until the third quarter of this year Samsung s approach unlike chosen of these options will involve a device that s a companion to your phone rather than a standalone product similar to the company s smartwatches according to Choi And the company s upcoming smart glasses which it hasn t revealed countless details about yet could be just the start We are actively working on glasses but specific people do not want to wear glasses because they change their look he revealed So we are also exploring other types of devices

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