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AirPods, one year later: How Apple bet on our faces and won

A year ago, I put AirPods in my ears and they became a Reddit joke. Cigarettes in my ears. Hipster jewelry. Mini vape pipes. Dorkwear. Hell no. They were a Google Glass-level example of face-worn tech gone wrong. And then, people starting wearing them. After a September 2016 unveiling, AirPods didn’t start shipping until mid-December. As 2017 began, I slowly …

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See how Dolby’s biophysical lab tracks your emotions

Now playing: Watch this: Dolby wants to give your senses superpowers 2:30 Scientists at Dolby are strapping a swimming cap with wires sticking out of it to my head. It’s actually a dry 64-channel electroencephalogram, or EEG, that’s reading my brain activity. Inside Dolby’s biophysical lab at the company’s headquarters in San Francisco, neuroscientists are studying how audio and video …

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