Speaker 0:  smart glasses keep promising all day ai, live translation, bright displays, and continuous video, but their processors get too hot before the battery even gives up. x men says its answer is a fan roughly the size of a fingernail thin enough to disappear inside the arm of your glasses. the question is whether a tiny airflow chip generally removes the thermal sealing or simply moves the engineering problems somewhere else. the next ai computing platform may not be held back by chips, batteries, or software. it may be held back by the fact that nobody wants a lot hot computer pressing against their temple. so the x mems has built a one millimeter thin solid state fan designed to stop that from happening. apparently, the missing ingredient in futuristic ai glasses was not better artificial intelligence. it was air conditioning for your face. so x men's has shrunk the active cooling chip to fit inside your glasses arm. what do you think about this? if i remember correctly, you recently bought some ai glasses. is this a concern? how are yours working? do you want a cooling fan in your arm of your glasses?

Speaker 1:  so i don't need it in the arm of my glasses. i need it so i didn't buy smart glasses per se. i bought display glasses. so i've got two oled displays that, for i can use it for compute. so i plug in any source. i can put in my phone, my switch two, my laptop, and i've got a 174 inch screen in front of me. and so i would like it to cool those displays because they don't get super hot, but they do get hot. so yeah. but where i see this being, super, super helpful is that, like, we've successfully miniaturized processors, cameras, and batteries. right? and so i feel like by having this fan now shrunk down like that, the processing power is not limited by thermal throttling, if that makes sense. so you can have, faster ai responses, shorter record or longer recording times. you can have brighter displays, reduced battery or increased battery life, and, obviously, comfortable frame temperatures of the frame themselves. but i think that the smart glasses now are limited by, the throttling, of the processors, the thermal throttling of the processors. so i think this is going to really, really help these, the actual smart glasses. i, not the ones that i want, but it could still help the ones that i have as well.

Speaker 0:  so it uses piezoelectric silicon membranes rather than a conventional spinning fan. it's consuming around 70 milliwatts while claiming to reduce the temperature by as much as 10 degrees celsius against a one watt heat load. this matters because heat currently forces glass manufacturer to, like you said, limit processor performance, screen brightness, video duration, and wear comfort. what remains unclear is if the component pricing, is performance inside a finished consumer frame, which manufacturers will use. so the xmc 1,200 equipped product will ship around 2028 is the current plan.

Speaker 1:  yeah. which isn't that far away. so, the thing is what they're shooting for is, i think, a 10, lower temperatures by 10 degrees under one watt heat load, which i think is huge. it might not sound like a lot, but for electronics, that's enormous. so, like, yeah, you're gonna get maximum clock speeds longer, you're less thermal throttling, improved reliability, a whole bunch of benefits from this. and so it's definitely could help with the displays as well. so, i think this is a game changer as we move forward with these smart glasses and all these display glasses and all that sort of stuff. i hope this gets in before 2028, but i'm sure it won't. i'm sure it'll be delayed, but, i'm excited for this one.

Speaker 0:  yeah. early, you cooling test reportedly produced up to a 40% system temperature reduction, a point six watt of additional thermal margin, meaning, you know, you could add, 1.6 watts instead of, you know, one watt, and a 75% reduction in thermal resistance. but these figures originated from xm's testing and modeling rather than an independent, device benchmarks. so keep that in mind. availability, a consumer's can't buy that, but, production readiness target for q four twenty twenty seven, like i said, and available for consumers in 2028. we'll have to see. we we'll have to see if this is going to be some sort of thing that they're gonna wanna put in all sorts of smart glasses or, even, you know, they have hearing aids that are connected to your glasses and stuff. now they have a bunch of things. so, there are probably a lot of other uses for this type of thin electronic cooling system. off the top of my head, i can't think of many, but the xmc 1,200 does not compete complete the smart glass revolution, but it may remove one of the hardest physical barriers standing in its way. the next generation of wearable ai may depend as much on moving 10 cubic centimeters of air as performing trillions of calculations. would active cooling make you more willing to wear ai glasses or putting a fan beside your temple make the whole idea feel even stranger? let us know your thoughts in the chat below.