Victoria Song

Android Authority reports that Samsung may be the first to noninvasive blood glucose monitoring in the Galaxy Watch, citing comments from Samsung senior vice president Hon Park saying the tech will be a “game-changer.”

We’ve reached the customary sustainability / greenwashing part of the presentation. There’s a lot of talk about our oneness with the ocean, but the one that caught my eye was this program to recycle the cobalt from old Samsung gadget batteries into new ones.

It’s me unleashing a great, big, fat sigh as Samsung talks about a new Antioxidant index that’ll come later this year to its Health app.

Sure, it was up onstage for about two seconds with a brief mention of glasses and Android XR, but it was there! You can also read more about my hands-on with Project Moohan from December if you’d like to know... literally anything about what Samsung and Google’s ideas for mixed reality wearables are.

The demo video showed a lady asking AI to find a picture of Max the pomeranian wearing a bathrobe and cucumber slices on his eyes. (Also, him wearing a red sweater and eating cake.) This is 99.999 percent of what I, too, will do with natural language AI photo searches on my phone.

Roh is kicking things off, and as you guessed, his little opening speech tips that AI is the name of the game for today’s event. Starting with Gemini.

It’s a time-honored Verge tradition to critique the wait music before an event. Let’s say it’s... elevated elevator music, or as David said, knockoff jazz. Some of us are agog and aghast. Others say the jaunty tune has their toes a-tappin’. (They’re wrong.) Taking bets on whether it’s Galaxy AI-generated.