Rather than functioning as conventional cameras, the sensors are expected to feed information into Visual Intelligence. This would allow Siri to answer questions about what is around the wearer or save information they encounter throughout the day.
This is not the first report suggesting Apple is developing AirPods with cameras. Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman previously claimed the earbuds would collect “visual information in low resolution,” effectively acting as eyes for Apple’s AI features.
Potential uses could include asking Siri questions about nearby objects, saving information without taking out your iPhone, or receiving more detailed turn-by-turn directions based on the wearer’s surroundings.
The AirPods shown in the video resemble a slightly thicker version of the AirPods Pro 3, with longer stems seemingly providing room for the additional hardware.
Apple has not officially announced the device, so its final name, price, features, and launch date remain unknown. However, previous reports suggest the AirPods could arrive as early as September alongside Apple’s next generation of iPhones.
In addition to privacy concerns, why is it that every time battery capacity is improved, they find a new way to drain it? They don’t even last a full day
Tech is so fucking cooked. They are clearly out of ideas and grasping at straws. This is the dumbest thing I’ve heard… So far.
They are building a mobile surveillance device that will collect them the data they need to compete with the other tech giants pursuing AI. They aren’t grasping, it’s calculated and intentional. You seem to still think they build consumer goods for our use and not for their own.
Agreed, but will people even buy them? I like to think not, but how many morons got new iPhones for “Apple intelligence”
Of course they will. The Apple tech ecosystem is intentionally restrictive for a reason. Their cultish consumer base will keep buying whatever over prices nonsense they sell next.
I guess they’re out of ideas. When the original idea was to listen to shit in your ear.
spyPods
The world is moving to a risk management style surveillance network inspired by the Gestapo. If we treat everyone like a criminal, is the new world government’s ideology then we will eventually catch you. I think there was a novel talking about mass surveillance networks to enforce government policies like a dystopian novel.
PervPods
You were SO close.
StarePods
PornoPods?
These better be very visually distinct from ordinary AirPods - I do not want to be mistaken for the sort of twat who would wear something with a camera in it 🫤
I’m hoping this is bullshit, but this is a fast track out of the Apple ecosystem for me.
If anyone actually wants this they they don’t have the intelligence to consider the consequences.
Either way I hope it’s announced this month as I need new headphones.
Yeah, as a glasses-wearer, I am seriously thinking about getting some totally rimless glasses so no one thinks I have the pervert glasses…
I grew up on TNG and always wanted my glasses to have the powers of Geordi’s VISOR… but not like this…
I did exactly that when I bought my new glasses a few months ago. I chose thin wire frames.
We’re gonna bring wire rims back in style!
it’s inevitable imo. I’ll never wear this tech but we’re not too far off from a dystopian cyberpunk future, next it’ll be smart contact lenses, then implants, then genetic splicing (the technology prob already exists). stopped using apple a decade ago for several reasons
Enters a Mexican restaurant. ICE arrives minutes after.
Where the hell do they find their focus groups that encourage this crap?
They’re building the surveillance state.
They are pursuing strategic goals, they don’t give a fuck about what consumers want.
Why the fuck
So either private changing stalls in every locker room, or we go the starship troopers route where they have mixed showers and no one cares.
Sounds like a camera to me.
At this point, it seems like the only way out of this situation is the weaponization of EMPs. I’m not supporting that, I’d personally prefer if medical technology and refrigerators and similar things still worked, but if people don’t like cameras everywhere (and we can now very clearly see that they don’t) and companies insist on putting cameras into all types of technologies where they’re not always visible, where else could this lead?
That’s a quick way to get a cauliflower ear.
punch the face
punch the ears
you wear this shit, no your not …
any marketing garbage is a leak these days…
marketing = lies
companies do nothing but rape, murder, commit fraud and theft.
none of them deserve money or oxygen at this point
