Welcome to the Tech Mem Right Home for Thursday, September 9th, 2021.

I'm Brian McCullough.

Facebook today launched some smart glasses.

Amazon today launched its own branded smart TV. Soccer

players are turning into NFTs. Twitter is turning into Reddit and I still have

questions about the whole buy now pay later space. Here's what you missed today in the world of

tech. What did I say yesterday about feeling like we hadn't had any new

gadget news recently? Never mind. Facebook this morning launched $299 Ray-Ban Stories smart glasses to let users

capture photo and video listen to music or take phone calls available to buy in

six countries including the US, quoting Alex Heath in The

Verge. They're called Ray-Ban Stories and you'll be able to find them pretty

much anywhere Ray-Banz are sold including LensCrafters and sunglasses hut stores.

The frames feature two front-facing cameras for capturing video and photos.

They sync with a companion Camera Roll app called Facebook View where clips can be

edited and shared to other apps on your phone not just Facebook's own there's a

physical button on the glasses for recording or you can say hey Facebook take a

video to control them hands free

and perhaps most importantly they look and feel like regular glasses with their

core ability of taking photos and videos Ray-Ban stories are essentially a sleeker version of Snapchat's spectacles

which first debuted in 2016 to a lot of hype that quickly fizzled. These Ray-Ban's

don't have displays in the lenses like the latest spectacles that were unveiled

earlier this year. However, speakers on both sides of the frame can play sound from

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