{"id":226146,"date":"2026-01-07T22:35:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T22:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/226146\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T22:35:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T22:35:07","slug":"smart-glasses-with-pet-translation-smell-like-total-bs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/226146\/","title":{"rendered":"Smart Glasses With ‘Pet Translation’ Smell Like Total BS"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you\u2019ve ever had a pet, you\u2019ve probably had a moment where you looked at them and thought, \u201cI wonder what\u2019s going on in that stupid, furry, little, adorable brain of theirs.\u201d Well, good news: you can keep wondering, because these smart glasses I saw at CES 2026<\/a> almost for sure won\u2019t reveal anything.<\/p>\n

Introducing the Syncglasses G2<\/a> from a company called Chmu Technology. They are, as I mentioned before, smart glasses<\/a>, and they have displays, speakers, and cameras. It\u2019s not the hardware that has me writing these words right now, though; it\u2019s the (purported) features. The Syncglasses G2 bill themselves as, \u201cthe world\u2019s first AI glasses with non-contact health monitoring,\u201d and among their capabilities is\u2014I kid you not\u2014something called \u201cpet translation.\u201d Imagine my surprise while flipping through a brochure for the Syncglasses G2 and seeing this.<\/p>\n

\"Syncglasses\u00a9 James Pero \/ Gizmodo <\/p>\n

I incredulously inquired a representative for Chmu Technology after seeing this quirky little picture showing \u201cpet translation,\u201dby looking him in the eyes and uttering simply, \u201cpet translation?!\u201d He informed me that the Syncglasses G2 can allegedly use AI to understand pet behavior. To achieve this groundbreaking advancement in pet tech, Chmu Technology apparently bought data of animals, including videos, and then trained an AI to analyze it. Sure, okay!<\/p>\n

There were no pets in the room for me to converse with, so I was shown a video demo of how the feature works that was almost certainly generated by AI. In this illuminating video, a (probably) AI cat mills around its (probably) AI litter box that is for some reason in the middle of the (probably) AI room until the glasses tell their (probably) AI wearer that they should\u2026 probably change the litter. Could you divine that the litter needs to be emptied by just looking at it? Most likely, but using AI is just so much more\u2026 AI.<\/p>\n

If you read that and thought to yourself, \u201cSounds sus,\u201d well, I\u2019m right there with ya, fam. I\u2019m no biologist, but I think truly understanding animal behavior is just slightly more complex than training an AI on watching videos scraped from TikTok of people\u2019s pets doing random stuff. But hey, this is the AI age we live in.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t mean to dismiss applications for AI in helping us do stuff, or computer vision for smart glasses that actually could be very helpful for people with low vision. But I\u2019d be lying if I said I wasn\u2019t tired of the deluge of AI in gadgets that don\u2019t seem to really know how or when to use it. But hey, it\u2019s CES after all, and if nothing else, stuff like this is good for telling us what the future almost certainly will not\u00a0look like.<\/p>\n

Gizmodo is on the ground in Las Vegas all week bringing you everything you need to know about the tech unveiled at CES 2026. You can follow our CES live blog here<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0find all our coverage here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you\u2019ve ever had a pet, you\u2019ve probably had a moment where you looked at them and thought,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":226147,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[345,343,344,108548,85,46,13451,125],"class_list":{"0":"post-226146","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-ces-2026","12":"tag-il","13":"tag-israel","14":"tag-smart-glasses","15":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226146\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}