AI gadgets of 2025: Black Mirror meets reality

When I recently wrote about the most noteworthy AI gadgets of 2024, I couldn’t help but wonder if the tech industry was nearing the limit of what’s possible with AI. But just a few weeks into 2025, the answer is already a resounding “no”—there is no limit in sight.

Indeed, what we can achieve with AI seems unbounded, as the recent CES 2025 event in Las Vegas proved. New AI products were unveiled, showcasing astonishing features and making unbelievable promises, practically taken out of a Black Mirror episode.

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2024, a year of AI breakthroughs and backlash

2024 is drawing to a close, marking itself as one of the most influential and significant years in Artificial Intelligence (AI) history. Let’s take a moment to recap the changes that have defined this year, when AI transcended from a buzzword to become a product in itself.

We’ve dealt with failed gadgets, like the Humane Ai Pin. This wearable integrated a camera, a projector and a speaker into a magnetic pin. The gadget replicated some smartphone functionalities, and its sleek design offered a certain wow factor. But it did it all in the worst ways possible, forgetting usability and affordability.

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Unlock Pixel’s best AI features on your iPhone

With the recent launch of the iPhone 16 I thought it would be great to try and find workarounds to the AI feature gaps that iOS has, especially for people switching from an Android device.

Here’s how to set up an iPhone and get some of the most popular smarts from a Pixel phone: Circle to Search, Google Lens, Gemini and even Work profiles.

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AI: the good, bad, ugly and everything in between

ChatGPT gained mainstream popularity in 2023 and changed how Big Tech companies approached artificial intelligence (AI). This marked a major turning point in the AI Wars, a race between leading tech companies to develop the most advanced AI technology.

While AI has been studied and developed for decades, Large Language Models (LLMs) have managed to capture the consumer market’s imagination. Conversational and generative AI finally feels human-like, especially now that models are being trained using massive datasets.

Mainstream media has struggled to explain what LLMs are and what they can actually do, often focusing on the most alarming aspects of these AI models’ capabilities. Will AI eliminate our jobs? Will AI cause the end of the world? Will AI abuse your personal data?

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