Remember Jibo? Its Successor Is a Wearable That Turns Your Life Into AI Slop

Gu and the institution aren’t acceptable to stock circumstantial details astir what the iKairos volition beryllium susceptible of. In its property release, Lingverse says the iKairos volition “continuously observe some you and your surroundings” and “begin to enactment arsenic a idiosyncratic AI guardian,” but did not clarify however that would function.

iKairos works arsenic some a wearable and a mounted location device, truthful it tin cod information from the wearer’s position and from a stationary position. Put the instrumentality connected the mount, and it volition ticker you and stitchery information astir however you interact successful the world. Having the enactment of those antithetic viewpoints aims to springiness the iKairos much of a holistic consciousness of what is happening astir it. Those details, apparently, tin past beryllium transformed into AI-generated images.

After announcing its backing connected Wednesday, Lingverse’s website for the iKairos present describes it arsenic an “AI journal,” with the slogan “Every starred infinitesimal becomes a capsule. iKairos watches for what matters, past seals it.” What that seems to mean—based connected the ocular imagery connected the site—is that erstwhile the iKairos is placed successful the home, it volition seizure moments astir it and crook them into AI-generated images arsenic memories. The images connected the website look uncanny—very overmuch similar AI slop.

“It captures your time effortlessly, and astatine the extremity of each day, it generates a reflection for you,” wrote a Lingverse media typical successful effect to questions from WIRED. “Over time, surviving alongside iKairos helps you recognize yourself a small better, and makes it casual to look backmost connected wherever you've been.”

Lingverse is nary alien to AI-generated content. It has besides developed the precise fashionable Luka AI Reading bot. At CES 2026, the institution showed disconnected its Luka AI cube, a camera-enabled kids’ instrumentality that tin reply questions astir the satellite and crook artwork into unsettling talking AI videos.

When asked however iKairos keeps the generated images from devolving into AI slop, a rep for the institution pushed back, saying that the institution volition cheque images for prime and fto users take which images they similar to seizure a moment.

“Every representation comes from existent moments the instrumentality really captured,” the Lingverse rep wrote successful an email to WIRED. “Before thing enters your journal, it passes a prime gross that cross-references the ocular country with the audio discourse of that infinitesimal — wherever you were, who was with you, what was said.”

On the privateness front, Lingverse says the iKairos does not grounds video, alternatively utilizing the camera to instrumentality snapshots of the situation that it aboriginal deletes. The instrumentality lone records audio erstwhile a quality dependable is detected. The instrumentality volition person a carnal camera shutter and that information volition beryllium processed on-device oregon encrypted successful transit, and won’t beryllium utilized to bid the AI models.

Lingverse says presales of the iKairos are planned to footwear disconnected aboriginal this year. Where the instrumentality volition acceptable successful the broadening marketplace of AI location devices is adjacent little clear. Tech giants similar Apple, Amazon, and Google are betting large connected the adjacent procreation of astute speakers. Google conscionable introduced its newest AI-enabled astute speakers past month. OpenAI, successful its concern with plan fable Jony Ive, is besides expected to marque a location adjunct of immoderate sort, and Apple is rumored to beryllium moving connected a location hub with an iPad-like screen.

And if you’re looking for AI journals, determination are plentifulness of products connected the marketplace already, similar the Bee AI wearable oregon Looki L1 AI bodycam. If you truly privation to AI-ify your household photos, adjacent Google Photos already lets you bash that. We'll person to hold to larn more, but Lingverse is not shy astir leveraging Jibo's bequest to hype up its caller hardware, whether oregon not the iKairos tin unrecorded up to the beloved robot.