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Victoria Song

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603 total appearances

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The Vergecast
How clips ate the internet

It just like couldn't find it.

The Vergecast
How clips ate the internet

And we have a very vertical house with four floors.

The Vergecast
How clips ate the internet

They were averaging 100 flights of stairs climbed a day looking for this thing that was in our car.

The Vergecast
How clips ate the internet

So that's rough.

The Vergecast
How clips ate the internet

To your point, I do think this is a thing that a lot of people would find useful.

The Vergecast
How clips ate the internet

And we could do a whole other Verge cast on the state of smart glasses and all the challenges for 24-7 wear.

The Vergecast
How clips ate the internet

Or you could just read the blog that I recently wrote on theverge.com about a lot of those issues.

The Vergecast
How clips ate the internet

But I think the main issue right now is that smart glasses, functionally right now, are a sometimes device.

The Vergecast
How clips ate the internet

They are not a real 24-7 device.

The Vergecast
How clips ate the internet

This would be a really great use case, but finding the killer use case that will convince people that this is worth the societal conversation about sacrificing your privacy, we don't have that yet.

The Vergecast
How clips ate the internet

What we have are a bunch of small sometimes use cases that if you cobble maybe 70 of them together, we could come up with an actual reason to wear these all day.

The Vergecast
How clips ate the internet

But this is like one of the more compelling ones.

The Vergecast
How clips ate the internet

Yeah, it is one of the things where I think every person can go like, oh, yeah, that wouldn't be super useful.

The Vergecast
How clips ate the internet

But is this one thing going to be enough for me to risk getting punched in the face?

The Vergecast
Ben McKenzie vs. crypto

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The Vergecast
Ben McKenzie vs. crypto

So CGM is something called a continuous glucose monitor.

The Vergecast
Ben McKenzie vs. crypto

It is a small device with a incy-beancy little needle sticking out of it that you inject into a part of your body.

The Vergecast
Ben McKenzie vs. crypto

And it reads your glucose levels.

The Vergecast
Ben McKenzie vs. crypto

And it's like important to note that it's not your blood glucose levels.

The Vergecast
Ben McKenzie vs. crypto

It is your interstitial glucose levels.