NTT subsidiary NTT Sonority said SonoVo Stick, a wearable microphone, is available to order in Japan from Nov. 12 at 24,000 yen before tax. The company says its patented Magic Focus Voice technology can isolate a speaker's voice in noise above 100 decibels. IT Home noted the device was first shown in June and is a microphone only, so it needs separate earphones.
Google said on Nov. 12 that Intelligent Eyewear, made with Samsung, Gentle Monster and Warby Parker, is available for pre-order, with a planned Dec. 10 launch. The glasses run Android XR and Gemini. Official starting prices are $395 for Warby Parker frames and $449 for Gentle Monster, with availability described for the United States and South Korea.
Amazon's Ring launched Ring Robotics: the Ring Drone Cam, an indoor flying camera that patrols set routes, priced at $249.99 and slated to ship in the US on Jan. 27, 2027, and the Ring Rover Cam, a $999.99 patrol robot for businesses shipping Dec. 16. The drone flies five to eight minutes per charge, navigates with cloud-based AI, and is still awaiting FCC certification.
At Baidu World 2026, Baidu introduced the Tianchi 1024-card supernode, which links 1,024 AI accelerator cards with optical interconnects. Baidu claims 3x the chip-to-chip bandwidth, 2.5x training and 3x inference performance versus its previous generation, and says the product is a year ahead of its earlier roadmap. No independent tests yet.
A drone called Qingqibing ("Light Cavalry"), built by an institute of China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp., made its first flight Nov. 11 at an airfield in northwest China. State media say it's China's first commercial-grade small-to-medium drone powered only by solar energy: 3.2 meters long with an 8-meter wingspan, a 45-kilogram takeoff weight and a maximum design endurance of 30 hours. The 30-hour figure is a design target; the first flight was a short circuit, and no actual endurance result has been released.
On November 11, Tencent launched Yuanbao Search, a new AI search engine at so.qq.com that can also be set as the default engine in the latest QQ Browser. Tencent says it rebuilt the entire search pipeline on its Yuanbao AI model, with an index of hundreds of billions of items covering the open web, WeChat Official Account articles, WeChat Channels videos, and academic papers. It says the engine draws on 157 authoritative sources and keeps ads in a separate, labeled block that users can collapse. These are Tencent's claims; real-world quality has yet to be tested.