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Halliday’s Smart Glasses: A New Era of Wearable Tech

What are Halliday’s Smart Glasses?

Halliday, a wearables startup, has introduced smart glasses with an innovative feature called DigiWindow, showcased at CES 2025. These glasses project a 3.5-inch round display directly into the user’s line of sight using a tiny module smaller than a pinky nail.

Key Features and How They Work:

1. Augmented Reality Without Expensive Lenses:
   

   • Unlike traditional AR glasses, Halliday’s DigiWindow bypasses pricey lenses by projecting directly at the user’s eye.

   • This approach makes the glasses more affordable and stylish, accommodating prescription lenses easily.
     

2. Real-Time Language Translation:
   

   • Supports 40 languages, enabling seamless bilingual conversations by displaying translations in real-time.

   • Example: During a demo, English subtitles appeared for Chinese speech within a second.
     

3. Multifunctional Display:
   

   • Displays phone notifications, navigation directions, and cheat sheets for notes.

   • Potential uses include meetings, interviews, or exams.
     

4. Proactive AI Assistant (In Development):
   

   • Will provide real-time insights and context about ongoing conversations.
     

5. Integrated Audio:
   

   • Built-in speakers on the glasses’ arms allow music playback or message reading.
     

6. Intuitive Control:
   

   • Paired with a control ring worn on the index finger to navigate features using thumb gestures.

User Experience:

• The DigiWindow requires precise positioning for optimal display. For some users, like those with high nose bridges, this positioning can be tricky.

• Safety: The glasses are deemed safe, even with lights pointing at the eyes, though the close-range light may cause hesitation for some.

Availability and Pricing:

• Launching in March 2025.

• Priced at $489 retail, with a $369 preorder price via a $9.90 Kickstarter pledge.

• At preorder, they’re slightly costlier than Ray-Ban Meta glasses.

Why It Matters:

Halliday’s glasses address two key challenges in wearable tech: affordability and functionality. They offer a commercially available, user-friendly product compared to prototypes from larger tech firms.

Microsoft Invests $3B in India’s AI Growth

Microsoft is making a $3 billion AI push in India, unveiling partnerships across railways, healthcare, finance, manufacturing, and education.

Key initiatives include:

• Collaborating with India’s Ministry of Electronics to support the IndiaAI Mission Datasets, launch an AI Center of Excellence, and train 500,000 individuals by 2026.

• Partnering with RailTel to modernize Indian railways using cloud and AI technologies.

• Apollo Hospitals developing AI copilots for healthcare.

• Bajaj Finance targeting $18M in savings through AI by 2026.

• Teaming with upGrad to integrate AI in workplaces.

This move intensifies competition with Google, Amazon, and Nvidia, as AI adoption surges across India’s industries.

NVIDIA Unveils Project DIGITS: World's Smallest AI Supercomputer for Developers

At CES, NVIDIA introduced Project DIGITS, a personal AI supercomputer powered by the new GB10 Grace Blackwell Superchip. With up to 1 petaflop of AI performance, it enables researchers, developers, and students to run large AI models, including those with 200 billion parameters, directly from their desktop.

Key Features:

• GB10 Superchip: Combines an NVIDIA Blackwell GPU with Tensor Cores and a Grace CPU for unmatched performance and efficiency.

• Compact & Powerful: Operates on a standard electrical outlet with 128GB unified memory and up to 4TB NVMe storage.

• Scalability: Seamlessly deploy models on cloud or data center infrastructure via the Grace Blackwell architecture.

• AI Innovation: Supports NVIDIA's full AI software suite, including NeMo for model fine-tuning, RAPIDS for data science, and common frameworks like PyTorch and Jupyter notebooks.

Collaboration & Expansion:

• MediaTek co-designed the GB10 for power-efficient performance.

• Two DIGITS units can link to support models up to 405 billion parameters.

Availability:

Launching in May 2025, starting at $3,000. Preorders are open now.

NVIDIA’s Project DIGITS democratizes AI supercomputing, empowering millions of developers to shape the future of AI from their desktops.