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NEW: Oura just introduced the world’s smallest smart ring. Oura Ring 5 is 40% smaller than Ring 4 and built to feel more like jewelry while tracking 50+ health metrics. • Starts at just 2 grams depending on size • Gets 6–9 days of battery life • Tracks sleep, HRV, blood oxygen, temperature, stress, and activity • Adds Health Radar for early signals across your biometrics • Supports GLP-1 tracking, health records, and AI health guidance ŌURA is moving from sleep tracking to proactive health.
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JUST IN: Google just launched a screenless Fitbit band to go after Whoop. Fitbit Air is a $99 wearable built to track your health all day without apps, alerts, or a display. • tracks heart rate, sleep, blood oxygen, skin temperature, and movement • no screen, notifications, or smartwatch features • up to 7 days of battery life • 5-minute charge gives roughly a full day of use • works with Google’s Gemini-powered Health Coach
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NEW: Microsoft just unveiled its most powerful Surface ever. Surface Laptop Ultra is a 15-inch NVIDIA-powered laptop built to run local AI models, creative work, and gaming. • NVIDIA RTX Spark chip with up to 20 Arm CPU cores • Blackwell GPU with 6,144 CUDA cores • Up to 128GB unified memory • Runs up to 120B parameter AI models locally • 15-inch mini-LED display with 2,000 nits peak brightness • Dual-fan cooling with 2.5x the thermal capacity of Surface Laptop 7 This could be a serious AI workstation.
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NEW: Jony Ive helped design Ferrari’s first EV. The Ferrari Luce is a 1,000+ hp all-electric four-door GT co-designed with LoveFrom. • 0 to 60 mph in about 2.4 seconds • paddles change how aggressively the car delivers power • uses real motor and chassis vibrations to create its sound • OLED displays replace the usual wall of screens • largest luggage capacity ever offered in a Ferrari • fast charges from 10 to 80% in under 25 minutes
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NEW: Radar just raised $170M at a $1B valuation to build the "operating system" for physical retail. They’re using sensors to help stores track every item in real-time with 99% accuracy. • ceiling sensors use RFID + computer vision • finds products down to 10 cm • shows what’s on the floor vs. in the backroom in real time • enables autonomous checkout with no lines • already powering hundreds of stores across the US and Canada Online stores know exactly what you viewed, added to your cart, and abandoned. Radar could bring that same intelligence to retail stores.
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NEW: This bed claims to add up to an extra hour of real sleep. Dreamspan just introduced an intelligent sleep system that reads your body, tunes your bed, and monitors air quality automatically every night. • AI thermoregulation adjusts heat, airflow, and elevation while you sleep • Raises your head when it detects snoring • Tracks heart rate, HRV, breathing, recovery, and snoring with nothing on your body • Dual-zone temperature so each side can be warm or cool • Monitors CO₂, TVOCs, humidity, and room temperature • Thermal and vibration alarms wake you without noise Dreamspan is turning the bed into an active sleep system.
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JUST IN: Kamingo unveils a smart converter that turns your bike into an e-bike in 10 seconds. • Switch between assist, cruise, and regular mode while riding • Snaps on with no tools (motor, battery, controller) • Up to 55-mile range with swappable EV-grade battery • Fall detection, app lock, and jam alerts built in • Weighs 5 pounds with 750W of peak power Starts at $349.
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JUST IN: Google unveiled its smart glasses project with XREAL, called Project Aura. • 70° FOV for a giant virtual screen anywhere • run full Android apps in floating windows • Circle to Search on anything you look at • lightweight frame powered by a small compute puck • hand tracking for pinch, zoom and window control Launching in 2026.
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NEW: Stickerbox launches a small AI-powered printer that lets kids speak an idea and instantly print it as a black-and-white sticker. • Turns voice prompts into AI-generated art • Prints instantly with no ink or mess • Screen-free, kid-safe, and privacy-first by design • Designed for coloring, collecting, and sharing You can purchase now for $99.
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A high school history teacher built one of the biggest brands in sports recovery. • Kobe believed early • Used across the NBA, NFL, and Olympics • Latest drop: Hyperice x Nike boot I met with founder Anthony Katz to hear how it started and why top athletes trust Hyperice products.
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NEW: This beanie lets you type with just your thoughts. Sabi just emerged from stealth with a brain-computer interface you wear like a beanie that turns internal speech into text on a screen. • Noninvasive interface worn as a cap or beanie • 70,000–100,000 sensors for high-density brain signal capture • Trained on 100,000+ hours of neural data • ~30 words per minute at launch, improves with use • Backed by Khosla, Accel, Initialized, and Kevin Weil Sabi feels like the first real attempt at a consumer BCI.
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“If you’re going to solve a hard problem and make something meaningful, you have to be relentlessly resourceful.” I spoke with Mehul from Matic Robots on how AI is unlocking Robotics 2.0 and why the timing couldn’t be better. “We are reimagining robots from scratch… and something that we’ve all dreamed about which is the Wall Es and the R2 D2s.” “We thought it was time for robotics 2.0. That is what Matic is bringing.”
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NEW: Naptick is currently #2 on Product Hunt. It's a bedside AI sleep companion built to help you fall asleep before the doomscrolling starts. • sees circadian light therapy to guide your body into sleep • plays 1,000+ adaptive soundscapes for wind-down • tracks room conditions like CO₂, humidity, temperature, light, and noise • includes an AI sleep coach for routines, journaling, and calming support • built phone-free with app-locking to keep you off screens at night Most sleep tech tells you how badly you slept. Naptick is trying to fix the part before sleep.
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Comma AI turns your car into a self-driving car. Their $999 device mounts on your windshield, plugs into your car, and runs openpilot, their open-source driving software. It works on 325+ supported cars and has already driven 300M+ miles with 20K+ users. I did a Rapid Fire with Comma AI CPO adeeb shihadeh to understand how they’re building it. comma
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JUST IN: DoorDash unveiled Dot, its first autonomous delivery robot built for the streets. • travels up to 20 mph, runs 6–8 hours on a swappable battery • 4.5 ft tall, ~350 pounds, carries up to 30 lbs (6 pizza boxes) • 8 cameras, radar & 3 LiDAR sensors for navigation • already making deliveries in Phoenix (Tempe & Mesa) • orchestrated with human drivers & drones via DoorDash’s AI platform DoorDash is rolling out to 1.5M people this year 🤯
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Trettitre just unveiled the TTT Series, a wall-mounted audio system for vinyl, CDs, and cassettes. The players snap onto a magnetic rack and charge wirelessly from one USB-C cable. The turntable has a self-balancing tonearm, built-in phono preamp, and ambient light panel.
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Sunday Robotics raised $165M to deploy their home robot Memo, but the more interesting story is how they got here. Instead of starting with a robot, they started by putting sensor-equipped gloves into real homes to capture how people actually do chores like dishes, laundry, and cleaning. That data is now what powers Memo. Here’s my conversation with Co-founder & CEO Tony Zhao. 1:34 Why does the world need Sunday? 2:07 What does Sunday get right? 2:37 Hardest part of building a home robot? 3:12 What does the future of robotics look like? 4:54 What is Memo? 5:23 Biggest misconception about robotics? 5:54 What does a successful launch look like? 6:29 $1B valuation pre-launch. How do you handle it? 8:12 What do people underestimate about Sunday? 10:34 Favorite consumer hardware product Tony Zhao Sunday
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