These smart glasses are being recalled to stop them burning your face off

The INMO Air 3 smart glasses have an overheating issue that poses "a risk of serious injury or death" to users. These smart glasses are being recalled to stop them burning your face off. Wearables and health These smart glasses are being recalled to stop them burning your face off The INMO Air 3 smart glasses have an overheating issue that poses "a risk of serious injury or death" to users.

The company has received ten reports of overheating, including users reporting a burning sensation on their faces and in their ears. Owners should stop using the glasses and contact INMO for a free software update intended to fix the issue. If there’s one device you don’t want to overheat, it’s a wearable in close proximity to your body.

Smart glasses may be the biggest fear of the lot — the prospect of burning around your face and eyes is not a pleasant one. But owners of the INMO Air 3 are now in that boat, being told to stop using their glasses immediately after reports that the left temple can get worryingly hot during extended use. The US Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) announced the recall today, covering around 1,643 Air 3 units sold in the US, plus another 120 sold in Canada.

Somewhere, a contractor just breathed a sigh of relief. Meta will stop training its AI on ‘visual data’ from its smart glasses — if you opt out.

Now, the company says it will allow people to opt out of having their "visual data" from the glasses used for AI training. The change means that users can opt of having their camera-based interactions with Meta AI being used to train the company’s models.

Those images will also not be shown to third-party contractors in other countries. "If you’ve opted out and you ask your glasses to translate a menu, we’ll use your visual data to answer your question and then it’s gone," Meta explained.

"It isn’t used for training and nobody reviews it for product improvement." Meta has long said that the actual content of photos you capture with the glasses’ cameras are not shared or used for training. But the company has allowed images and video captured while using Meta AI to be used for this purpose.

This is confusing because these images and videos aren’t saved to your camera roll, so a lot of people likely don’t know that these captures are being saved, much less used for anything else.