Gucci Partners with Google on Luxury Smart Glasses, Reportedly Launching Next Year

Gucci Partners with Google on Luxury Smart Glasses, Reportedly Launching Next Year

French luxury group Kering announced it’s working with Google to bring Gucci-branded smart glasses to market sometime next year, potentially becoming the segment’s first luxury brand. Kering, which also owns a host of brands including Yves Saint Laurent, Balenciaga, and Bottega Veneta, has been working to revive Gucci following a sharp decline in revenue—roughly 19–22%

Monkeys Navigate Virtual Worlds Using Thought Alone in New BCI Study

Monkeys Navigate Virtual Worlds Using Thought Alone in New BCI Study

University researchers at KU Leuven in Belgium have shown that monkeys can navigate complex virtual environments using a brain-computer interface (BCI) setup, which remarkably involves relatively little user training. As reported in New Scientist , three rhesus macaques were implanted with Utah array BCI devices containing 96 electrodes in each of three brain regions: the