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Mon. 02/26 – Mobile World Congress Is All About AI This Year (Corrected)

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🗓️ 26 February 2024

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Mobile World Congress kicks off this week, and I bet you can guess what the big theme this year is. All the hardware that is being announced to allow you to do AI on your existing devices. Samsung unveiled its Galaxy Ring, but Apple wants you to know it could do a ring too if it wanted to. And Lenovo’s see-through laptop is cool looking, but also, looking for a use case. Links: Samsung unveils the Galaxy Ring as a way to 'simplify everyday wellness' (Engadget) Apple Ponders Whether to Develop Smart Glasses, Fitness Ring (Bloomberg) Here’s why the $3,500 Apple Vision Pro headset is so expensive (CNBC) Au Large (Mistral.ai) Nvidia launches RTX 500 and 1000 Ada Generation laptop GPUs for AI on the go (VentureBeat) Lenovo’s laptop concept is fully transparent, but the point isn’t entirely clear (TechCrunch) Peering through Lenovo’s transparent laptop into a sci-fi future (The Verge) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Tech Meme Right Home for Monday, February 26, 2024. I'm Brian McCullough today.

0:09.0

Mobile World Congress kicks off this week and I bet you can guess what the big theme this year is.

0:14.3

All the hardware that is being announced to allow you to do AI on your existing devices, Samsung

0:19.0

unveiled its Galaxy Ring, but Apple wants you to know it could do a Ring 2 if it wanted to.

0:24.2

And Lenova's see-through laptop is cool looking, but also looking for a use case.

0:28.8

Here's what you miss today in the world of Tech.

0:39.7

Mobile World Congress has begun in Barcelona and Samsung has used the occasion to unveil something they demoed at their last big event, the Galaxy Ring. It's centered around health and

0:45.3

wellness comes in three colors will be available later this year, and it's, well, a

0:50.4

smart ring, quoting and gadget.

0:53.0

Journalists weren't allowed to photograph it today,

0:54.7

but some additional images from Samsung

0:56.7

show it to be a chunky concave ring about the same size

1:00.1

as the aura, according to a supplied image. The extra girth isn't surprising given the electronics

1:06.4

cached inside. The Galaxy Ring will also offer a new tool called My Vitality Score that measures

1:12.0

alertness so users can see if they're at their best.

1:15.0

Feedback will be available via booster cards that offer science-based tips using sleep and other data gathered by the device.

1:21.0

The Galaxy Ring will be part of the Samsung Health

1:23.8

ecosystem and be compatible with the Galaxy Watch. That means you'll be able to use

1:27.7

both devices at once to track your health and get higher quality data as a result.

1:31.5

That said, the advantage of a ring wearable is that it's far

1:35.1

less annoying to sleep with, end quote. And quoting the verge. The Galaxy Ring prototypes I was able to try

1:42.2

out were presented in three colors,

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