{"id":646294,"date":"2026-06-19T00:28:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T00:28:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/646294\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T00:28:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T00:28:16","slug":"xgimi-memomind-one-review-smart-glasses-creepy-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/646294\/","title":{"rendered":"XGIMI MemoMind One Review: Smart Glasses, Creepy AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">XGIMI says the MemoMind One doesn&#8217;t have a camera as the company is focused on the privacy of both its users and the general public. That&#8217;s the right idea, as I object to the concept of walking around with a camera attached to my face. However, this pitch is undermined by the Moments feature, which outrages and confuses me in equal measure. In essence, it&#8217;s a journal of your day: The glasses&#8217; built-in microphones are recording what you&#8217;re doing at all times.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Yeah&#8230; I know.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The data is then processed by an AI to generate a summary of what it perceives you have done to create a summary of your day.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Yeah&#8230; I know.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">At the risk of being glib, the whole self-enrolling into such a dystopian process isn&#8217;t even the worst part of this whole thing. The journal entry it produces is like hearing a record of your own life being recounted back to you after it&#8217;s been twisted and contorted after a centuries long game of Telephone conducted by the permanently baffled.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">During a lunch break, I watched my friend&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=I-DS3Us90Ds\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">YouTube video<\/a> as he&#8217;d told me about it in the pub a few days earlier. He reviews model airplane kits, and had gone early to pick up a limited edition set before they&#8217;d sold out. This, of course, piqued my curiosity. Memories, however, told me that I&#8217;d bought and unboxed the kit, unaware I was watching a video featuring someone else&#8217;s voice. It even noted the pre-roll advert for Sage accounting software, telling me that I&#8217;d been involved with an issue at work as I&#8217;d forwarded along an invoice to &#8220;the wrong Sarah.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">That&#8217;s not an isolated incident. It&#8217;s the default, and most days I&#8217;d look through the record to try and find a single thing that actually happened. It told me I&#8217;d applied for a job at a psychology practice (my friend mentioned his interest in doing so), hung out with someone called Charles (no idea) and been visited by a married couple called Paul and Zoe (nope). Troublingly, the weekly recap I received wasn&#8217;t even in English but arrived in Simplified Chinese, the system forgetting which languages I can and cannot read.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Wishes is a second feature branching off from Memories where the system logs any time you offer an opinion that could be coded as yearning. If you use the phrase &#8220;I really want&#8221; or similar, it&#8217;ll log it. And like Memories, if you hear someone else say that, or hear it on TV, it&#8217;ll get equal treatment. For instance, I was watching an episode of Babylon 5 (&#8220;Messages from Earth&#8221;) where Garibaldi wanted to read a translated version of the Book of G&#8217;Quan. I shudder to think what would happen if the authorities got hold of my logs the day after I&#8217;d watched a crime drama.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">To add insult to injury, XGIMI expects users to pay $19.99 a month for the privilege of using this journaling feature. Or, if you pre-order the glasses with a $30 deposit, you&#8217;ll get a year&#8217;s worth of the service for free. Which, to me, is reason enough to not pre-order it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"XGIMI says the MemoMind One doesn&#8217;t have a camera as the company is focused on the privacy of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":646295,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,733,4308,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-646294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=646294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646294\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/646295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=646294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}