AI Devices

Yes, easily, from a very short sample — which is precisely the problem. Voice cloning is cheap, fast and convincing enough for audiobooks, dubbing and accessibility, and equally convincing to a relative receiving a scam call.

Yes, and it is genuinely good. Phones, earbuds and some glasses translate spoken conversation with a second or two of lag across major language pairs. It is excellent for travel and everyday chat, and still risky for legal, medical or contractual conversations.

Yes, mostly. Consumer phones and cheap call-screening services will pick up, transcribe and hold a short conversation with a caller, and they handle spam and simple appointment calls well. Anything nuanced — an emotional caller, a complex booking, a call that needs your judgement — still gets handed back to you.

It can remember a lot, not everything. Mainstream assistants now keep persistent memory of your preferences, projects and past conversations, and it noticeably improves them. Recall is still selective, occasionally wrong, and confined to whichever assistant you told.

Partially, and only for specific things. Wearables have credible, regulator-cleared features for irregular heart rhythm, sleep apnoea signals and fall detection. Broad early warning of infection or disease is research-grade signal, not diagnosis.

Yes for everyday objects, landmarks, menus and text. Consumer camera glasses answer 'what am I looking at?' surprisingly well. Precision tasks — identifying a specific component, a mushroom, a medication or a face — are either unreliable, restricted or both.

You can buy one, but expect a companion rather than an assistant. Pendants, pins and earbuds will listen on demand, transcribe your day and answer questions well enough to be useful. Continuous all-day capture that reliably surfaces the right thing at the right moment, on a battery that lasts, is still beyond them.

For simple, well-lit, well-known tasks, they can help. Camera-plus-assistant glasses will identify what you're looking at, translate a sign or talk you through a recipe. Step-by-step guidance through unfamiliar physical work — repairs, wiring, anything with consequences — still lags and misreads too often to trust.

Not to a standard you should treat clinically. Wearables are good at heart rhythm, sleep staging and trends, and irregular-rhythm alerts have genuinely sent people to a doctor in time. Cuffless blood pressure is approximate and drifts; needle-free glucose remains unsolved despite two decades of confident announcements.