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Anoria Wants to Put a Number on Your Mood - Then Teach You What to Do With It
The ex-Apple team behind Anoria is betting that the next useful wearable will track the thing sleep scores and step counts only circle around: how you actually feel. The opportunity is intimate, useful and full of hard questions.
VITURE Luma Ultra Puts a 152-Inch Screen in Your Carry-On - If You Can Tame the Software
For travelers, handheld gamers and laptop nomads, VITURE's camera-packed glasses turn a USB-C port into a crisp private cinema. The hardware is convincing; the spatial-computing promise still asks for patience.
The Smart Glasses That Refuse to Film You
No camera. No speaker. Just a green line of text floating where you need it. Even Realities built the anti-spectacle smart glasses - and turned itself into a billion-dollar company doing it.
The Even G1 Sun Clip Fixes Bright Days for $99. The Tiny Pouch Explains the Whole Smart-Glasses Bet.
For prescription G1 wearers, this slim shade is the difference between leaving the smart glasses at home and wearing them through lunch. It is useful, handsome, easy to misplace, and priced like a lesson in hardware ecosystems.
The $99 Smart Glasses Taking On Ray-Ban Meta - Without the Camera
A 13-person Miami outfit is selling AI-powered smart glasses for a fraction of Ray-Ban Meta's price - by leaving out the one feature everyone else brags about.
Fitbit Air 30-Day Review: The $99 Subscription-Free Wearable Tested
A hands-on 30-day review of the $99 Fitbit Air, a screenless, subscription-free wellness wearable. The reviewer wore it every day for a month through international airports, a week-long tennis camp in Bali, and intensive training in tropical heat, comparing it head-to-head against WHOOP 5.0. The verdict: the Fitbit Air excels at comfort and sleep tracking and offers roughly 80% of the value at 20% of the cost, but its thin, older sensor hardware lags behind WHOOP during high-intensity exercise, and the Google Health app is still rough around the edges.
Xander
Xander builds XanderGlasses, standalone augmented-reality smart glasses that turn spoken conversation into real-time captions displayed in the wearer's field of view. Aimed at people with hearing loss who don't sign, the device runs speech-to-text offline - no phone, Wi-Fi, or cloud required - so private conversations stay private. An MIT Media Lab spinout founded by Alex and Marilyn Morgan Westner, Xander has been adopted by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and is built on customized Vuzix Shield hardware.
Sujay Suresh Kumar
Sujay Suresh Kumar is the cofounder and co-CEO of Lilu, a New York women's health hardware company building smart wearable tech for new mothers. An electrical engineer trained at the University of Pennsylvania, he designed circuits for CERN's ATLAS experiment, helped launch 4G in India at Reliance Jio, and spent two years on factory floors in Shenzhen turning a robotics-class side project into shipping products. He was named to Forbes 30 Under 30 in 2022.
AT Nakanishi
AT Nakanishi (Atsushi Nakanishi) is the founder and CEO of Triple W, the company behind DFree, the world's first personal wearable ultrasound sensor that predicts toilet timing. He launched the company in 2015 with high school and college friends, took it from Tokyo to Berkeley, and steered it to a Best of CES award and Series D funding. A self-described non-engineer who built a hardware company from zero, Nakanishi blends business pragmatism with a stubborn focus on solving an unglamorous, very human problem.
Triple W USA (DFree)
Triple W USA makes DFree, the first wearable ultrasound sensor that predicts when you need to use the bathroom. The matchbox-sized device sits on the lower abdomen, tracks bladder fullness in real time, and sends an alert to a phone or tablet before it is too late. Founded by Atsushi Nakanishi in 2015 and headquartered in San Diego, the company sells to individuals, caregivers, and senior care facilities under the banner of dignity and independent living - 'diaper-free.'
Neda Razavi
Neda Razavi is the CEO and Chairwoman of the Board at iSono Health, a South San Francisco medtech company building the world's first wearable, automated, portable FDA-cleared 3D breast ultrasound system. With 25 years of experience launching 65 products across six global platforms and generating over $9 billion in cumulative revenue at companies including Abbott, Roche, Medtronic, and Natera, Razavi joined iSono Health as an early investor and advisor before taking the helm in November 2023 to lead commercialization of the ATUSA system — a 2-minute, hands-free breast imaging device that pairs robotics, AI, and cloud analytics to make early breast cancer detection accessible to OB/GYNs and primary care providers without requiring a trained sonographer.
Hemkesh Agrawal
Hemkesh Agrawal is an engineer-turned-venture-operator who went from arriving in the US from India in 2019 to holding a patent, founding multiple startups, and becoming Head of Engineering at Redbud VC in Columbia, Missouri. A Board of Trustees Scholar at Michigan State University with a perfect 4.0 GPA, he co-founded UniServices (an Uber-for-odd-jobs platform for college students) and Village (AI-driven HOA management), and was one of only 15 selected out of 4,000 applicants for the Survive & Thrive entrepreneurship bootcamp at age 16. He bridges deep technical skill with startup hustle, embodying the rare builder who can go from Arduino prototypes to VC infrastructure.