The wearable future is stuck in weird, experimental, existential limbo

AI connected the wrist is 1 specified experimental feature.

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For the past week, I've been investigating the Google Pixel Watch 5. In galore ways, it's a typical, modern smartwatch. In others, it feels similar 1 portion of a wearable aboriginal that's progressively successful flux. Everyone I've spoken to successful wearable tech has astir the aforesaid extremity - soon, your tracker of prime volition diagnostic a adjuvant AI coach, "check engine" alerts that preventively emblem hard-to-detect wellness conditions, and personalized wellness re …

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