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wearables

You Should Have Caught That

Amazon's Bee and other memory wearables promise to catch stray commitments, but their deeper cost may be turning ordinary forgetting into proof that someone should have remembered.

July 29, 2026 · essay · 9 min · ai · wearables · memory · privacy · technology

Nothing to Do but Watch

A smart ring can catch pregnancy-shaped signals before a test, but its real cost is stranger: it hands you a true signal you can do nothing with, and turns the wait medicine cannot shorten into a nightly vigil.

July 22, 2026 · essay · 8 min · health · wearables · pregnancy · technology · anxiety

What the Light Was For

Always-aware AI glasses promise better memory, but the darker bargain is what they take from bystanders: notice, refusal, and the ordinary mercy of fading from a stranger's mind.

July 12, 2026 · essay · 9 min · ai · privacy · wearables · memory · attention