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  1. 💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: ❄️🛰️ 12 crew members lived 10 months in -80º C isolation at #ConcordiaStation, #Antarctica.

    They wore sensors that tracked how close they got to one another while researchers measured trust, conflict, and team spirit over time. The crew drifted into #language-based subgroups, and more contact didn’t build stronger bonds, instead fueling mistrust and tension.

    👉 sciencedaily.com/releases/2026

    #mars #space #psychology #science #wearables #research #astronauts

  2. 💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: ❄️🛰️ 12 crew members lived 10 months in -80º C isolation at #ConcordiaStation, #Antarctica.

    They wore sensors that tracked how close they got to one another while researchers measured trust, conflict, and team spirit over time. The crew drifted into #language-based subgroups, and more contact didn’t build stronger bonds, instead fueling mistrust and tension.

    👉 sciencedaily.com/releases/2026

    #mars #space #psychology #science #wearables #research #astronauts

  3. The Guardian: Restaurants, pubs and theatres ban Meta’s ‘spy glasses’ over privacy fears. “When Meta used superstar Kylie Jenner to promote its sleek new line of ‘spy glasses’, the social media company hoped the devices would reach the same broad acceptance that tablets and smartwatches have found before them. But those plans have hit a snag in the UK, where venues from elite restaurants […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/08/08/the-guardian-restaurants-pubs-and-theatres-ban-metas-spy-glasses-over-privacy-fears/
  4. The Guardian: Restaurants, pubs and theatres ban Meta’s ‘spy glasses’ over privacy fears. “When Meta used superstar Kylie Jenner to promote its sleek new line of ‘spy glasses’, the social media company hoped the devices would reach the same broad acceptance that tablets and smartwatches have found before them. But those plans have hit a snag in the UK, where venues from elite restaurants […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/08/08/the-guardian-restaurants-pubs-and-theatres-ban-metas-spy-glasses-over-privacy-fears/
  5. 💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: 👓🌈 #Beijing Institute of #Technology researchers built an add-on layer that lets a pair of eyeglasses show #infrared #light as color, something human #eyes are blind to because each infrared photon is too weak to trigger a single retinal cell.

    👉 popsci.com/technology/infrared

    #vision #science #experiments #animals #biology #engineering #wearables #tech #augmentedreality #AR #humanbody

  6. 💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: 👓🌈 #Beijing Institute of #Technology researchers built an add-on layer that lets a pair of eyeglasses show #infrared #light as color, something human #eyes are blind to because each infrared photon is too weak to trigger a single retinal cell.

    👉 popsci.com/technology/infrared

    #vision #science #experiments #animals #biology #engineering #wearables #tech #augmentedreality #AR #humanbody

  7. PetaPixel: Meta Smart Glasses Face Calls for Bans Across Europe Over Privacy Concerns. “Several European countries — including France, Germany, and the Netherlands — are considering banning Meta’s smart glasses as regulators examine whether the devices comply with privacy laws.”

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/08/06/petapixel-meta-smart-glasses-face-calls-for-bans-across-europe-over-privacy-concerns/
  8. PetaPixel: Meta Smart Glasses Face Calls for Bans Across Europe Over Privacy Concerns. “Several European countries — including France, Germany, and the Netherlands — are considering banning Meta’s smart glasses as regulators examine whether the devices comply with privacy laws.”

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/08/06/petapixel-meta-smart-glasses-face-calls-for-bans-across-europe-over-privacy-concerns/
  9. Offenbar plant #Samsung eine günstige #Smartwatch namens "#GalaxyAero". Statt #WearOS soll ein schlankes RTOS für lange Akkulaufzeiten und einen niedrigen Preis sorgen. #Wearables winfuture.de/news,160443.html?

  10. Offenbar plant #Samsung eine günstige #Smartwatch namens "#GalaxyAero". Statt #WearOS soll ein schlankes RTOS für lange Akkulaufzeiten und einen niedrigen Preis sorgen. #Wearables winfuture.de/news,160443.html?

  11. Idea: a Human Emotions MCP server. Inputs: physiological sensors — heart rate variability, skin conductance, voice prosody — plus webcam-based facial expression analysis. The server classifies the combined signals into emotional states and serves the agent structured context: "frustrated", "engaged", "stress rising". The agent adapts to emotional state in real time, faster than text reveals it.

    #AI #MCP #AIAgents #Wearables #AffectiveComputing

  12. Korea Times: As AI glasses get harder to detect, universities scramble to update exam rules. “Artificial intelligence (AI) glasses are emerging as a new tool for academic dishonesty, with a string of recent cases exposing their potential for misuse, putting the education sector under growing pressure to respond.”

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/08/03/korea-times-as-ai-glasses-get-harder-to-detect-universities-scramble-to-update-exam-rules/
  13. Gizmodo: You Don’t Want Smart Glasses That Record Everything You Say—Trust Me. “The $399 MemoMind One are camera-less smart glasses with a monochrome display, microphones, and speakers. On paper, they’re a lot like the Even G2 made by Even Realities, which are also camera-less and focus more on productivity and notifications than entertainment, but there’s one major difference.”

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/08/03/gizmodo-you-dont-want-smart-glasses-that-record-everything-you-say-trust-me/
  14. 🧠 Award-Winning Innovation in Ear-Based Sensing

    Industry experts in wellness and healthcare trust LanTape Biosensors. Our ear-derived photoplethysmography (PPG) technology provides superior accuracy compared to wrist-based wearables, delivering clinical-grade data in consumer-friendly earbuds.

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    #HealthTech #Wearables #PPG #HealthcareStartUp #Biotech #Innovation #EarBasedSensing

  15. 🟢 Your smartwatch's green light has a 90-year-old secret origin.

    That tiny LED is photoplethysmography (PPG), an optical trick from 1937. Physiologist Alrick Hertzman at St. Louis University pointed a light bulb and photocell at a finger and watched the pulse show up in the changing light passing through the blood.

    Same principle, different scale: it now runs hospital pulse oximeters and every fitness wearable. Green light near 520-530nm is strongly absorbed by hemoglobin, so when your heart beats and floods the wrist with blood, less light bounces back to the sensor. Count those dips and you have a heart rate.

    One bit of history worth knowing: the rabbit's-ear version of this experiment belongs to Molitor and Kniazuk at the Merck Institute in 1936. Hertzman's landmark 1937 paper measured human fingers and toes, not a rabbit.

    The tech also keeps shrinking. In April 2025, SCIVAX and TSLC in Japan announced the world's smallest PPG sensor head at about one square millimeter, a tenth the conventional size. Miniaturization like that is why rings like Oura can get so thin.

    Read more:
    journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/1
    businesswire.com/news/home/202
    pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/

    #wearables #science #history

  16. The Register: DEF CON bans Meta-style ‘pervert glasses’. “Ahead of DEF CON 2026 opening its doors in Las Vegas next week, conference organizers said they have imposed a ban on ‘Meta-style glasses with recording capabilities.’ Statements made via its social media channels went on to say that no exceptions will be made for those using the devices with prescription lenses.”

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/08/02/the-register-def-con-bans-meta-style-pervert-glasses/