Brilliant Labs Introduces All-Day Smart Glasses with Color Display; Pre-Orders Start at $300

Okay, so Brilliant Labs just threw their Halo smart glasses out there, right? And they’re packing all sorts of tech goodies like a micro OLED screen, bone speakers, and some fancy AI assistant. And for just $300? Honestly, kinda wild.

Now, they’re light as a feather, at just 40 grams or so. They basically morphed from their earlier gadgets — remember Monocle or Frame? Yea, me neither, but apparently this is their more polished, user-friendly version. It’s like they thought, “Hey let’s make these for everyone, not just tech nerds.”

Under the hood, there’s this Alif B1 processor doing its thing with a Cortex-M55 CPU along with a neural processing unit for on-the-fly AI antics. It’s like having a techy brain on your face. And there’s pictures, lots of them, showing every piece that makes this thing tick — because nothing says cutting-edge like a good teardown shot.

They have a built-in AI buddy, Noa. It hears you, watches what you do, and supposedly it “remembers” stuff — creepy or cool, you decide. Battery life? They claim up to 14 hours, which, not gonna lie, sounds like wishful thinking on a gadget like this. But hey, I’ve been wrong before.

Speaking of sensors, the glasses come with a spy-esque optical sensor. And no, it’s not about filming your lunch at the café. It’s for “AI inference.” Your guess is as good as mine on the real-world application for that one, though.

Noa comes in flavors: one’s basic (kind like a free sample), and the other’s supposedly premium but, uh, price TBD at the moment. So you might want to hold your horses on upgrading.

And for those of us with less-than-perfect vision? Adjustable optics between +2 and -6 diopters. Prescription lenses are in play too. Basically, they’ve got you covered.

Open source folks, rejoice! Brilliant Labs spilled their guts — well, their design secrets at least. It’s all on GitHub for your tinkering pleasure.

If you’re itching to add Halo to your collection, they’re ready for pre-orders, shipping maybe by the end of 2025. But remember, it’s a race — first come, first served, just like grabbing the last donut at the office.

So, there you have it. Spec overload and tech delight. Halo’s either tomorrow’s must-have or just another blip on the gadget radar. But I guess we’ll see soon enough, won’t we?