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Scott Stein

Reporter · US

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18
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Sep 25, 2026
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Jul 8, 2026

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  1. Article · Sep 25, 2026 · Scott Stein

    These Lightweight Audio Memory-Recording Glasses Might Be Meta's Next Step (and Apple's) - CNET (opens the original)

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    The multiple pairs of smart glasses prototypes I’m trying on are attractive, familiar and lightweight. They look normal, fit my face well and have no cameras. All they have on board is audio and microphone support. These Vonder smart glasses are all about listening to you as much as to others. And they can tell the difference. Meta announced its own camera-free audio glasses this week, but Vonder, a company founded by execs from display glasses maker Viture, along with Guillaume Hamon, the chief

  2. Article · Sep 14, 2026 · Scott Stein

    Steam Frame, Reviewed: Valve's Ambitious VR Headset Feels Like an Experiment in Progress - CNET (opens the original)

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    Gravity gloves on, I approach a dark passage. I can hear alien grunts. The voice on my headset tells me to watch out for “barnacles,” and I know to look up and shoot ceiling-hugging aliens with the gun in my controller-gripping hand. I’m in VR, playing Half-Life Alyx again. It’s a game I once played six years ago by rigging a VR headset to a laptop PC and installing room sensors in my pandemic home office. Now I’m playing it on a standalone VR headset, no PC needed at all. Yes, Valve’s fantastic

  3. Article · Sep 11, 2026 · Scott Stein

    The iPhone Duo Isn’t the Pocket iPad… or Is It? - CNET (opens the original)

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    I’m having deja vu after Apple’s “Surprise and shine” event, which introduced the company’s first folding phone, the iPhone Duo. It’s on two levels: Back in 2020, Microsoft introduced its take on a folding phone, also called the Duo. I remember talking about it with Panos Panay, at that time Microsoft’s chief product officer, and realizing that a hinged, dual-screen phone was in some ways the phone of my dreams, but not in all the ways I wanted. But that’s not all. I’m writing these thoughts abo

  4. Article · Sep 10, 2026 · Scott Stein

    Don't Sleep on Apple's Audio Intelligence. It Reveals a Lot About Where We're Headed - CNET (opens the original)

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    The first five minutes of John Ternus’ first keynote as Apple CEO weren’t a product unveiling or a recap of Apple’s history. Instead, they were a redefinition of the iPhone as an “intelligent personal hub.” Of all the devices Apple makes, the iPhone doesn’t need to be described or explained to anyone. But this new framing of it as a hub not only set up the debut of the foldable, category-straddling iPhone Duo, an iPhone/iPad hybrid of sorts — it also suggested an AI-infused wearable device futur

  5. Article · Sep 9, 2026 · Scott Stein

    IPhone Duo’s Under-Screen Camera: Invisible, but at What Cost? - CNET (opens the original)

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    I love the idea of a phone or tablet with no camera cutout or bezel at all, where everything would be screen… and a camera hidden under the screen would handle the magic for you. That’s exactly what Apple did with the inner camera on its new iPhone Duo, coming later in October. It’s a phone full of new tech specs to catch up on, but that new bonus camera (to go with the front-facing camera and dual rear cameras the Duo also has) fascinates me. And, based on the reported specs, concerns me. Maske

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