The AI wearables are always listening

The AI recorder premise is an enticing one. You wear this tiny microphone around your neck, on your wrist, or pinned to your sweater, and it records everything. Your recorder can tell you all the things you promised to do and immediately forgot; remind you where you were when you talked about how much you […]

May 6, 2025 - 14:04

The AI recorder premise is an enticing one. You wear this tiny microphone around your neck, on your wrist, or pinned to your sweater, and it records everything. Your recorder can tell you all the things you promised to do and immediately forgot; remind you where you were when you talked about how much you liked the coffee; keep notes on all your meetings and conversations. Perfect memory is hard to argue with.

But on this episode of The Vergecast, we wonder whether perfect memory is really such a good idea. The Verge's Victoria Song joins the show to talk about her experience with wearables like the Bee, which was sometimes very cool and sometimes totally alarming. We talk about how it felt to be recording all the time, what our friends and families thought, and whether there's a version of these devices we'd be more excited to use.

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Then we talk keyboards. Beautiful, expensive, ridiculous-in-the-best-way keyboards. The Verge's Nathan Edwards joins the show along with Ryan Norbauer, the creator of the new $3,600 Seneca keyboard, to discuss what it takes to build the perfect typing tool - and why it's worth …

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