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A trip to the park. A day at the beach. A workout session at the gym. All in public spaces where smart glasses can snap photos, record conversations or stream video online - without people in the line of their lenses and microphones knowing about it. Norway's government wants to get a handle on both the promise and peril of AI glasses, and is proposing that parliament enact a temporary ban on them in some places. It's the latest sign of growing concern in many countries about new technologies that are fundamentally changing the way people live. Some governments have banned the use of social media by children and young teens. One effort to rein in the use of AI glasses has run aground - in the home of Silicon Valley. California's governor last week vetoed legislation that would have penalised the use of smart glasses to record people without their permission in places like changing rooms, doctor's offices and other spaces people generally consider private. And Microsoft last month
Smart wearable firm Boult expects to close the current financial year with about 33 per cent growth in net revenue at Rs 800 crore, a top company official said on Wednesday. Speaking on the sidelines of launching new TWS (truly wireless) earwears, as part of a collaboration with Ford Mustang, Boult Co-Founder and CEO, Varun Gupta said the company expects the 25 per cent of total sales to come from smartwatch portfolio and around 75 per cent from audio devices in the current fiscal year. "We had Rs 600 crore revenue in 2024-25. This year, we are on track to record a revenue of Rs 800 crore minus taxes. Our gross merchandise value will be over Rs 1,000 crore," Gupta said. According to the market research firm IDC, India's wearable device full-year shipments declined year-on-year for the first time ever, falling 11.3 per cent to 119 million units in 2024 compared to about 134 million units supplied in 2023. The major decline was driven by smartwatches while the earwear category ...
Wearable device shipments in India recorded the first-ever decline, falling by 10 per cent in June 2024 quarter to 29.5 million units, due to large unsold stocks of old models and lower level of innovation in the segment, market research firm IDC said on Thursday. According to the report, Oppo along with OnePlus had the biggest fall in shipment of 35.8 per cent year on year (YoY). It was followed by Fire-Boltt whose wearable shipment declined by 24.3 per cent, Noise with a drop of 13.9 per cent, and boAT 9.8 per cent year on year. Boult was the only player among top five brands, which recorded a 9.6 per cent jump in the shipment. Despite decline in total shipment, boAt (Imagine Marketing) led the wearable segment with 26.7 per cent share, followed by Noise (Nexxbase) with 13 per cent share, Boult 8.1 per cent, Fire-Boltt 8 per cent, Oppo (combined with OnePlus) 7.6 per cent. "Cautious inventory stocking by the vendors with a focus on clearing the old stock before the festive season