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EU Directive 2024/1799 took effect July 31, and more than a quarter of Americans now live under state parts-pairing bans. Manufacturers are no longer treating repairability as an afterthought — they're redesigning around it before the next law lands.
Oura's IPO filing shows 121% membership revenue growth at an 89% gross margin and a 94% paid-conversion rate — the real business isn't the ring, it's the subscription built on top of it.
The newest wave of AI hardware isn't adding displays — it's removing them. Here's why screen-free is winning, and what it means for the devices you'll wear next year.
Display-equipped smart glasses have quietly gotten good enough to replace a desk monitor for real productivity work. The remaining barrier isn't field of view or brightness — it's whether small text stays sharp during a full workday.
Better overnight accuracy, longer battery life, and no screen to compulsively check are pulling passive health tracking away from wrist-worn devices toward rings.
Since the FDA authorized AirPods Pro 2 as an over-the-counter hearing aid, the category has split in two: legacy amplification devices and a new generation built entirely around AI sound processing.
Falling prices, rising solar attachment rates, and grid reliability worries have pushed home batteries from a niche add-on to a default line item on solar quotes — and increasingly a standalone purchase.
Meta sold over 7 million Ray-Ban smart glasses in 2025 and locked up 76.1% of the market. Google's competing Android XR glasses don't ship until autumn 2026 — and the two companies aren't even building the same product.
Smart locks have been a liability for a decade — dead batteries, laggy apps, unreliable Bluetooth range. Two separate engineering fixes shipping in 2026 attack both root causes at once, and together they change whether a smart lock is worth trusting with your front door.
Smart ring shipments grew 88% in a single year while smartwatch growth stalled. Here's why the ring form factor is winning the health-tracking category smartwatches used to own.
Meta's Ray-Ban smart glasses moved 7 million units in 2025. Google is launching Android XR audio glasses with Warby Parker and Gentle Monster this fall. Samsung is co-developing display glasses. After Google Glass failed spectacularly in 2013, something has quietly changed — and it's not the technology.
The Connectivity Standards Alliance finalized Matter 1.5 in November 2025, adding cameras and video doorbells for the first time. Samsung SmartThings ships it. Apple, Google, and Amazon still don't. Here's the practical state of the smart home in 2026.