2025 Mid-Year Gadget & Consumer Tech Trends Report (Updated: June 27th, 2025)
Generative AI integration is a unifying theme across wearables, smart home devices, AR/VR headsets, AI-powered assistants, personal audio, and home robotics in 2025. Apple’s Series 10 Watch (launched late 2024) features ECG-based atrial fibrillation detection and can turn AirPods Pro into hearing-assist devices via a software update. Circular Ring 2 from CES 2025 offers an onboard ECG sensor, FDA-cleared AFib detection, an 8-day battery life, and a titanium build. Viture One XR Glasses won Best of Show at AWE 2025, delivering a 60° field of view with micro-OLED displays and a consumer launch planned for late 2025. Snap’s next-generation Spectacles