


24 Jul 2025 · 23m · 13 chapters

DTNS episode focused mainly on Jason Howell and Wind Witt Dow’s hands-on impressions of Meta’s Oakley “Meta HSTN” limited-edition smart glasses, plus brief tech headlines.
Jason Howell and Wind Witt Dow are DTNS hosts/reviewers; no outside guests appear in the glasses segment. The episode also includes ad-read “guest” stories: Daryl Spencer (Amazon Ads rising star; founder of Crown Skin) and Drew Afualo (comment section hair product sponsor).
The Oakley Meta HSTN glasses cost about $500 (and a $400 model is coming). They feature gold prism 24 polarized lenses, open-ear speakers, 5-mic array, 12MP ultra-wide 4K camera (vertical video), 8-hour battery (48 with case), and Meta AI voice/touch features.
Recording a room entrance on a trip; potential POV content for sports (snowboarding, climbing). Privacy concerns discussed, including how obvious recording should be.
Written by AI. May contain mistakes.
Explore the features and first impressions of the new smart glasses.
“Let's start with what you need to know or put on your face with the big story.”
Delve into the design, camera capabilities, and sound features of the glasses.
“They were delivered to my house yesterday.”
Hear thoughts on potential uses for the glasses in everyday situations.
“capability to do things like record video and interact with AI, that sort of stuff?”
Discuss the privacy implications and social perceptions of smart glasses.
“I think that there's a lot, especially if people can tell when you're capturing information, which, you know, I think people tend to be super more aware of these days.”
Discussing privacy implications of smart glasses and potential regulations.
“some serious privacy considerations, you know, that a lot of people are not comfortable with still.”
Analyzing Google's earnings report and recent updates to its services.
“Hey guys, it's Drew Afualo from the comment section.”
Discussing the reliability problems with Google Home's assistant feature.
“You know, everybody's, everybody's making bank off of AI moving on.”
Reporting the impressive sales figures of the Nintendo Switch 2.
“Yeah, I want them to get useful again, too, because I'm starting to get super irritated by them.”
Reviewing the new Kindle Colorsoft options and their features.
“The Wireless Power Consortium announced a faster Qi2 25-watt wireless charging protocol that is set to hit iPhones.”
Explaining T-Mobile's new satellite texting and location sharing feature.
“Like put the sucker inside of the device.”
Introducing Snapchat's new HomeSafe feature for location sharing.
“I know they're offering this for everyone, but I'm a T-Mobile subscriber.”
Discussing Brave Browser's update to block Windows Recall screenshots.
“I only don't because I see my kid on Snapchat.”
Learn about user experiences and recommendations for AI security practices.
“And we end every episode of DTNS with some shared wisdom today.”

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2:36Your first three videos are free at heygen.com slash pod. That's H-E-Y-G-E-N dot com slash P-O-D. This is the Daily Tech News for Thursday, July 24th, 2025. We tell you what you need to know, follow up on the context of those stories and help each other understand. Today, Jason, this guy right here, tell us about his new Meta smart glasses that just came out. I got them. I'm so excited. I'm Jason Howell. I'm Wind Witt Dow. Let's start with what you need to know or put on your face with the big story. That's right. So Meta's latest wearable. So, you know, we've heard a lot about, you know, the Meta Ray-Bans.
3:17They've been around for a while. And now we've got an update. Meta has a new pair of glasses hitting people's faces. It's a collaboration with Oakley and it's a little expensive. It's priced at$500, at least for now. And I'll talk about that. The Oakley Meta Houston, I think it is, it's HSTN, but I guess you just say Houston. Limited edition glasses are an alternative option for people who might have considered the Meta Ray-Bans that we've been talking about a lot that came before them. I've been super curious to check out Meadows wearables firsthand. Like I've seen them. I've put them on my face, but I haven't lived with them.
3:55So I went ahead and pulled the expensive trigger on the Oakleys. They were delivered to my house yesterday. And just to give you a little bit of background on what these are, these are the more expensive limited edition version, model, whatever you want to call it. That's what's shipping right now. There's a less expensive, I think it's$400 model that's going to be made available sometime soon. These lenses in here are impossible to miss. The frame is bright, sporty, like super white frame, actually. A really pretty look at gold-hued prism 24 polarized lens on both sides. So like when you put them on, everything turns gold.
4:40It's really, really nice to look through. If all you want is a pair of sunglasses, these are not what you should get because these are, yes, sunglasses and they're very sporty and they're very fashionable, but they have a lot of other things to them. There's two open ear Bluetooth speakers that are embedded in the frame, a five microphone array. So voice commands, phone calls, that sort of stuff will work well. A 12 megapixel ultra wide camera on one side of the glasses, 100 degree field of view. And they're UHD quality. So you get 4K quality photos and videos. The camera is, however, locked into a vertical orientation.
5:21So it's not horizontal. Those of us old timers will snarl up a little bit about that. But thankfully, what I've noticed since I've been using them is that the video that's recorded, yes, it's vertical, but it's not like super wide vertical. It's not like really, really super tall. It's like slightly more vertical than square, if that makes sense. Eight hours of battery life advertised on full charge for the glasses alone. very nice charging case that they sit into gives the total amount of hours to 48. So I think that's pretty impressive. And yes, of course, Meta's AI is on board. That means that you can use the glasses to interact with the world using your voice, as well as a little touch surface on the side of the glasses.
6:04So you can do things like identify what the camera's looking at right now, or, you know, give me information on this topic or translate conversations in real time, all things that I haven't really done yet, but I did just get the glasses. So I thought, why not talk about it from kind of an impression standpoint? Is this something that you're at all curious about, these kind of like wearables that don't necessarily have a screen, but give you the capability to do things like record video and interact with AI, that sort of stuff? You know, at first I thought, no, because I'm really fascinated by the idea of a HUD.
6:38And yeah, just, yeah, because these don't have any kind of visual interface. They're strictly, you know um voice activated but to be honest with you you know my my sister just had her second kid and he's getting into that part where we might be social smiling soon and so trying to capture and so it's it's it's kind of like it's a typical it's a stereotypical use case right but again like that idea that there are moments that you just want to capture somehow quickly and as quickly as possible without like searching for your phone or even just like walking around i think and you know, just having to, you know, try to figure out, oh, what is this and what is that?
7:15Or even asking questions. So yeah, I'm kind of, I'm kind of softening on them. And to be honest, those are really good looking pair of glasses, Jason. Like they, they're very distinctive and they have these like gold accents, like around the cam, like those are the cameras on the side, right? There's two little dots on the side. One of the dots is the camera. The other is, is like an LED that when you're recording, it does this like slow pulsing gold yellow. So it's not someone who's there. or nose that you're recording. Yeah, they're very distinctive. I'd say like, they're definitely unusual glasses.
7:49The frame is super thick and the nose bridge part, actually the lenses near, the lens kind of flattened out where the nose bridge is. So it's got a very distinctive look and I think it's interesting. And I think I would give them a shot. I think that there's a lot, especially if people can tell when you're capturing information, which, you know, I think people tend to be super more aware of these days. I would definitely be interested like with that, with that mobile computing. They look good. They look good, dude. Yeah. I mean, they are definitely, they are meant to be noticed. You know what I mean?
8:24Like these glasses are, they're bright white. The frames are bright white. Actually, so I went to a friend's house last night because we're planning a big, like guys backpacking trip through, through the Trinity Alps. Nice. We're going to be doing that in a month. So you better believe I'm bringing these on that trip because it's going to be perfect for it. But I just got these yesterday. So I was like, oh, I wonder what would happen. You know, and I walk in the room with these on and I'm recording my entrance into the room. So, of course, they see the little blinking light. They've never seen me with white sunglasses on before.
8:55It's 730 p.m. So it's like, why are you wearing sunglasses? But anyways, one of my friends who was there, he was like, those look like glasses that someone like Sam Altman might wear. You know what I mean? They have a certain tech chic to them. Because if you know what you're looking for, you see the cameras and everything. So if you want to wear something that isn't going to stand out, these might not be the glasses for you. But if you're really into like sporty stuff, like I could totally see myself bringing these to my snowboard trips in the winter. And, you know, if it's not a day that requires goggles, like wearing these and getting some captures of going down the mountain, you know, and they share, of course, it's a meta product.
9:40So if they're meant to share out to Instagram and to Facebook and, you know, to WhatsApp, you can communicate through to WhatsApp through the glasses. And so the recordings and the photos that they take, especially the recordings, I mean, the photos are just photos and you can share those out very, very easily through the interconnectedness to your phone. Videos can record up to three minutes. You have a setting that you can set. It's like 30 seconds, a minute or three minutes. And like, really, I got them for a very specific reason. Like, I'm curious about all the things they do. But at the end of the day, what I'm most curious to use them for is production.
10:20Like I want an easy grab and go way to throw something on my face, hit record and have 4K quality of me like handling a phone or me looking at a product if I'm at a conference. Like I don't want to have to I don't always want to have to pull out the kit and get set up. Sometimes I just want to snap and go. And I think these will be really good for that. I mean, time will tell. I'll figure that out. That would, that, that is super, because it's so funny because I've seen so many images, like so many videos of you at like, say a, you know, just looking at a phone or trying to capture stuff for, you know, any of your, your various content.
10:58And it's obviously always a one-handed affair because you have to carry your little DJ. And that's actually a really great point, whether this might open up a different class of content, you know, POV content. I mean, we kind of already have some of it now, you know, and especially from like a, maybe, especially sports. I always think of like cyclists and other kinds of sports, um, related folks, or even like I have a, I have a friend who likes to climb 14ers and do like the really like crazy scrambling and stuff like that too. So, you know, I I've seen a couple of videos where he's obviously using one hand and he's like traversing this really crazy caravasse.
11:35That's like a, like a steep drop on either side. And I could see like just this kind of augmenting that, or maybe giving people more occurred to do but like yeah a whole new sub genre of content around this very very pov like strictly pov point of view would be really cool i will say on the website if you are not interested in being too too flashy there is a black bear that is super subtle it's still chunky but it has none of the accents you can't and you can't even really see the things that make it kind of obviously smart glasses like the cameras are because everything is black like the frame's black Right.
12:09Everything is black. It blends in a little bit. It blends in. So that's a little more subtle, I guess. But no, I'm I'm honestly I'm genuinely fascinated. I'm always I feel like I'm always a little bit trying to be aware of like the the privacy concerns of smart glasses and possibly look. I mean, but I mean, that's we I mean, it's like whenever someone walks up with to you with their phone, like held just to head high, you kind of assume the recording. So maybe also we'll get used to identifying, hey, is that, you know, like the same kind of thing? So I don't know. Yeah. Well, it is a different time, right?
12:42Like Google Glass was more than 10 years ago. Fair. One of the original Glass-tronauts. I will use that term and not the other one that people are thinking. And, you know, it was a totally different time. Yes, we had smartphones. Yes, we were used to recording lots of things with our smartphones. But the idea of wearing something on your face and just like this ambient recording capability, it was too early for that concept and people really pushed back. Now I feel like we are at least further down the road of acceptance of that. Not everybody, but a lot more. But, you know, I think there still is a big question around like, is it OK for me to just walk into the room when my friends are there recording as I enter the door?
13:26You know what I mean? like versus like, hey, I'm going to I'm going to record this. OK, and put that on. Like I went, you know, all guns blazing through the through the doors like, hey, everybody, I'm recording you right now. I did tell everybody like immediately because I felt weird not to. But, you know, so there's there's something to be figured out. But I do think we're at a different time, a different point of acceptance, especially with the with the kind of development of Instagram and TikTok. And everybody's used to, you know, or not everybody, but a lot of people are really used to this idea that, you know, life is meant to be shared, I guess.
14:00And that comes with it, some serious privacy considerations, you know, that a lot of people are not comfortable with still. I kind of wonder what kind of mitigation some countries might do. So for example, in Japan, you can, smartphones in Japan, you cannot turn off the shutter sound when you take a picture. And so I wonder if there's, what would the equivalent be for glasses? It like presuming that they do let glasses in, what would be that kind of mitigation where it makes it really obvious that you are capturing someone, whether that is like a foreshadow sound for a static pic, or I don't know, strobing light show if you're recording someone, which feels like it would take away from the experience.
14:35But I kind of wonder what that between that and any, like, I don't know, not like to talk about like extra regulation necessarily, but I wonder, I wonder, like, I wonder how this will shape kind of those parts of our lives as well. Like just those little things or how our lives shape around this technology that, as you said, has become more accepted and going to become more prolific. Yeah. Curious about that myself. It is. Cool stuff. All right. Well, DTNS is made possible by you, the listener. We want to take time to thank DLaser, Brad, Kevin Morgan, and Jeff Azevedo. Yay. You are awesome. All four of you and the rest of you too.
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18:48Google reported a 14 % increase over last year with 96.4 billion in revenue. Google is touting its overviews, AI Mode and Gemini as seeing huge adoption worldwide and plans to boost its investment into data centers to keep up with demand. Google also admits that its smart assistant service has become unreliable, particularly as Gemini begins to move in where assistant once lived. They acknowledge that they are listening to user feedback about inconsistencies with Google Home devices and will deliver major updates later this fall that should address those concerns. And finally, Google Photos will see a new round of updates that includes bringing VO2 to the service.
19:35This will let users take any cell image in their library and turn it into a six-second animated clip. Users can select between, quote, subtle movements or I'm feeling lucky, and processing could take around a minute to complete. There will be a limit to the amount of animations allowed for users, and rollout begins today. Yeah, okay, so earnings. Okay, great. You know, everybody's, everybody's making bank off of AI moving on. Assistant service becoming unreliable on Google Home. We were just talking about this on Android Faithful last, you know, a handful of episodes about how inconsistent and just not, not good it's become.
20:14I, we had this the other day, actually, just the other day up in our bedroom, you know, our daughter, we wanted to set an alarm on our Google Home in there. And for whatever reason, you know, it would not let us. And I kept asking it, like, how do I set an alarm then? It's like, well, you just say this. Okay. So then I say it. I can't help you with that right now. I'm like, ah, I ended up having to pull another one in from another room to get it to work. Oh my God. So that's just irritating when it can't even set an alarm. And then Google Photos getting video generation. We were just talking about this on Tuesday's show.
20:45And yet here we are. It's not VO3, it's VO2. So you're not going to get your sound effects, but you are going to be able to animate your still images. And I saw that coming a mile away. I was like, I guarantee you this is coming to Google Photos at some point. And here we are. Yeah, it makes sense. I will very much look forward to the day my Google Home gets useful again. Sorry, but true. Maybe that means that it gets Gemini 100%. You know what I mean? Like, it's like they're in this weird little kind of halfway point right now. Yeah, I want them to get useful again, too, because I'm starting to get super irritated by them.
21:19Yeah, we spend money on those things. So come on now. Yeah. Yeah. Turns out the Nintendo Switch 2, kind of a big deal. A new report from Surkana shares that it sold, the company, Nintendo, sold 1.6 million units in the United States during its first month of sales. If you're curious what that actually means by comparison, that's enough to anoint it the fastest selling game console of all time from launch. The PlayStation 4 had set the previous record at 1.1 million units sold in its first month. So 1.1 versus 1.6 is the big increase. Unsurprisingly, I would imagine Mario Kart World, the best-selling game of the month as well, at least the best-selling game for the Nintendo Switch 2.
22:07I think there were other games that sold more that month, but Mario Kart right high up on the list. All right. Well, Amazon has a few new Kindle Colorsoft options to offer after launching the lineup last year. The first is a cheaper 16 gigabyte model for$249.99. And for$30 more, the signature edition bumps the storage up to 32 gigabytes along with wireless charging and an auto adjusting front light. Amazon is also offering a$269.99 kids bundle. That is the company's first color Kindle for kids with a two year protection guarantee and 12 months of kids plus content. Color e-ink. I mean, it does make a big difference.
22:46It does. Really good with, you know, e-ink's awesome, But the black and white thing, you know, I think they kind of for a very long time leaned into the fact that, well, everything on the paper, you know, this is meant to replicate paper. And if you're reading text, it's usually black and white and everything. But there's a lot of really great reasons to have color there, too. So broadening out the offering, good thing. Kids can get in on it, too. Kids will probably be stoked to read their graphic novels on the Kindle now, you know. So. Love it. The Wireless Power Consortium announced a faster Qi2 25-watt wireless charging protocol that is set to hit iPhones.
23:22At least initially, you might have expected that. Well, in good news for Android users, hallelujah, that support is finally coming to, quote, major Android smartphones. This is the first time for Qi2 support like this. This raises the previous charging limit of 15 watts, you know, considerably, 15 watts to 25 watts. That's notable. Specific models, however, were not listed in this announcement. Though, you and I, when we can probably posit that the Pixel will be part of this because we've been hearing rumors of it. That would be really, really, really nice because I know I have a Pixel 9 Pro Fold and it's wireless charging was slow as mud to the point where I was like, I'm not doing this unless like I'm sleeping.
24:04So 25 watt, I'm ready, please. 25 watt and like built-in magnet, like magnet cases is one thing. Yes. But you know what? Like put the sucker inside of the device. And I think, I guess, I hope that sometime in the next year or two, we're going to start seeing more Android devices that have that magnet there. Oh, God, that'd be so nice. All right. Well, T-Mobile has launched nationwide satellite texting and location sharing, all powered by Starlink for its customers, as well as those not on the network. The basic$10 per month service works on more than 60 phone models once they leave standard cell phone range.
24:39Sometime in the future, support for voice, app data, and image sharing is expected to roll out, along with plans to cover global roaming. Absolutely love this. I know they're offering this for everyone, but I'm a T-Mobile subscriber. You know, like I was saying earlier, going on a backpacking trip through the mountains pretty soon. Probably going to benefit from this, you know, if I needed to send a text message out of there. Good to have. Excellent peace of mind. Absolutely love it. Mm-hmm. Snapchat has introduced a new location sharing feature called HomeSafe that will automatically notify friends when the user arrives at home.
25:14The feature shuts off automatically once the destination is reached and once it knows that that message has been sent to the friends on the message thread, I guess. Users will need to set up their home location in the SnapMap in order to take advantage of the new feature. I like that. I didn't realize that Snapchat, this feels very much like a kind of general, like wearable smartphone feature. I'm really impressed that Snapchat is including it. And I'm so old. Do the kids still use Snapchat that, you know, like, or people still use Snapchat in this way that it would be super helpful? If my older daughter is any indication, yes, kids definitely still use Snapchat.
25:56Wow. Okay, cool. Noted. Old person brain updated. Hey, I'm older than you. I only don't because I see my kid on Snapchat. And sometimes the best way for me to communicate with her is with Snapchat. Okay. Okay. All right. Noted. Noted. Noted. All right. Well, Brave Browser now blocks Microsoft Windows Recall from taking screenshots of browser windows by default. The company announced in a blog post that the move is meant to keep user browsing activity from, quote, accidentally ending up in a persistent database. The change is available in nightly builds and is on deck to roll out stable releases in the upcoming weeks.
26:32Yeah, I mean, this is just part of what Brave does, right? Yeah. Protect your data, do this by default. Makes perfect sense. I'm sure the users appreciate that. Absolutely. I'm rather than using it to begin with. Yeah. Yes, please. Yeah. Yes, please. If you have feedback about anything that gets brought up on the show, well, you can get in touch with us on the socials. At DTNS Show on X, Instagram, Threads, Blue Sky, and Mastodon. For TikTok and YouTube, you can find us at Daily Tech News Show.
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28:01And we end every episode of DTNS with some shared wisdom today. Andrew from Colorado is helping us understand. All right, regarding the story Tuesday about Replist Model deleting a code base, Andrew writes, I ran across the Vibe Coding Mishap story on LinkedIn, and my immediate thought was that agents' privileges were way too elevated. When I was head of cloud platform on a large federal project, I was never given full admin privileges to our cloud accounts, despite being one of the primary fixers when things went wrong. Changes to the system were validated programmatically and reviewed by another person.
28:37Those validated changes were then made by a tool with the right privileges. Once the system goes into production, some concept of least privilege should be enforced and will help prevent these issues. And even if you're vibe coding, you can get your AI helper to build that security infrastructure for you. Oh, it can build the thing that keeps it out. I like it. No, Andrew, this is... It's like training your replacement.
29:07Kind of, sort of. Okay. That being said, no, this is all really great context, Andrew. And it makes me think of like, I grew up in the DC area. So a lot of my friends in engineering did end up on many large federal projects. And yes, that's very familiar where number one, even if you are the guy or the person rather that does the thing, you shouldn't have full access to everything just because mistakes happen. And yeah, I do. The tool with the right privileges, that also sounds very familiar where you let something else that is not a person hit the button in a sense. Makes a lot of sense to me.
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Google is bringing Veo video generation to Google Photos, and the Nintendo Switch 2 is the fastest selling game console of all time.
Starring Jason Howell and Huyen Tue Dao. Show notes found here.
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