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 bet you every latest iPhone carrier individual thinks that this is the coolest thing on the planet
It’s joever, pack up
If you care about privacy move to a country that actually allows pro-human laws to pass instead of pro-capital
“People don’t want cameras on their glasses”
“What if we put them on their airpods?”
We ostracized the glasses by calling them “pervert glasses”
We can do the same with “pervert pods”
Or pPods, if you will
Oh so they’ve learnt nothing from Meta’s pervert glasses?
Amazon has these.
It’s happening.
🤢 every day I’m disappointed that Amazon is somehow still in business.
Using pervert glasses for work is a whole other layer of cyberpunk bullshit.
They know. They’re willing to risk it for the data they’ll get.
They make them more expensive and put an apple on it, to make sure idiots buy it.
PervPods
You were SO close.
StarePods
PornoPods?
Seems like Apple didn’t get the memo as public opinion has turned on having cameras absolutely everywhere. I get that it’s for “visual intelligence”, but that’s just some marketing to try and convince people this doesn’t make you look as pervy as wearing the Meta Raybans.
Thiel needs the data. Remember they’re working together.
Visible cameras being everywhere. People are dangerously tolerant of what they can’t see.
So pervert air pods
Enters a Mexican restaurant. ICE arrives minutes after.
I guess they’re out of ideas. When the original idea was to listen to shit in your ear.
Why the fuck
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?
“Hey siri what is on my foot” “hey siri” “hey siri” “hey siri what is on my foot”
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.
Wish Linux had cross device seamless operations like clipboard sharing and self hosted settings sharing
Obligatory KDE Connect comment.
That second bit exists w/ freeipa+ansible
Device interoperability is seen as a security vulnerability by the “Support Open Standards” community
