The headline-making Harvard duo who turned a pair of Meta smart glasses into a privacy violation machine last year now have their own pair of smart specs to sell, which they tell The Register will make people "super intelligent" by listening in on their conversations 24/7 and offering unsolicited feedback.

Caine Ardayfio and AnhPhu Nguyen on Tuesday opened preorders for Halo X , a pair of smart glasses they designed that, while not equipped with a camera like a pair of Meta Ray-Bans, do include a heads-up display. The display and some embedded microphones, combined with an agentic AI that is purportedly able to digest what the glasses hear, mean that the frames are able to respond with information they deem relevant to the wearer's current circumstances.

"The moment you put them on, you

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