The Ray-Ban Meta Audio glasses provide an audio-only interface for music, podcasts, and interacting with Meta's AI assistant, Muse

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Home Depot's giant decorative skeleton incorporates Bluetooth connectivity, enabling owners to control lighting, adjust movements, customize LCD eye displays, and transmit audio

Physical Apple Card credit cards omit an external signature strip on the reverse side

The Ray-Ban Meta Audio glasses will sell for $349 later this year

Meta announced the Ray-Ban Meta Audio, a set of camera-free AI glasses

Hardware hackers can build a customizable Muse gadget on a Raspberry Pi or ESP32 development board

Plod is an AI notetaker that sells both a hardware device and a software subscription

AT&T released the Princess Phone, a smaller variant of the Bell phone designed for a teenage girl's hand

Unlike the 500 series, modern phones like the iPhone are not designed to be easily opened or repaired by the user

The design of the iPhone incentivizes customers to upgrade to new models rather than to repair old ones

The iPhone is designed as a pocket computer, camera, and media player, with the phone being a less critical function

Early cell phone companies prioritized voice quality over minimizing latency

Digital cell phones break a voice down into numbers, which are then reassembled at the other end

Analog sound on vinyl records is produced by a needle running through physical grooves on the plastic disc

The delay, or latency, on a digital cell phone call is between 150 and 250 milliseconds

Digital audio is a conversion of a mathematical formula into sound that is then translated by a speaker

The phones bugged during the Watergate scandal were likely 500 series models

Analog phone systems like the 500 series transmit sound as a nearly instantaneous electrical signal

A latency of 150 milliseconds can make it difficult to have a natural conversational rhythm, especially during arguments

After the breakup, cheaper, less reliable plastic and cordless phones became widely available

The dial of the 500 series phone made a "Zika, Zika, Zika" sound when used