The Consumer Advisor

As of late 2025, AI wearables have evolved into two main categories: dedicated AI companions (e.g., always-listening recorders for meetings and notes) and AI-enhanced traditional wearables (smartwatches, rings, and glasses with advanced AI insights, assistants, or AR features). Dedicated devices exploded in popularity this year, but many focus on productivity via recording and summarization.  Here's a roundup of the best options based on reviews, features, and real-world performance. 1. Best AI Smart Glasses: Ray-Ban Meta (Latest Models) Next-gen smart glasses leverage AI for facial recognition, real-time translations, and contextual information overlays, enhancing user perception and interaction. These AI-powered glasses mark a shift toward ambient intelligence and hands-free connectivity. Why it's top: Seamless Meta AI integration for queries, translation, camera, and audio. Stylish and practical for daily use. Price: $299+. Amazon Links: Ray-Ban Meta Wayfarer (Gen 2) Ray-Ba...

As we enter Q4 2025, the tokenization of Real World Assets (RWA) has evolved from a niche blockchain experiment into a cornerstone of institutional finance. With the global RWA market surpassing $25 billion in Q2—marking a staggering 245x growth since 2020—titans like BlackRock and JPMorgan are at the forefront, bridging traditional finance (TradFi) with decentralized systems. This surge is driven by tokenized treasuries, private credit, and real estate, projecting a path to $16 trillion by 2030. Yet, amid hype, challenges like liquidity gaps and regulatory hurdles persist. In this outlook, we'll dissect BlackRock and JPMorgan's pivotal roles, their 2025 strategies, and the broader implications for mainstream adoption. BlackRock: The Asset Management Behemoth Tokenizing Trillions BlackRock, managing over $12.5 trillion in assets, has aggressively positioned itself as the RWA vanguard, viewing tokenization as "the next major evolution of finance." Their BlackRock USD I...

Nearly every analyst firm and memory maker is now warning of looming NAND and DRAM shortages that will send SSD and memory prices skyrocketing over the coming months and years, with some even predicting a shortage that will last a decade. The shortages are becoming impossible to ignore, and warnings from the industry are growing dire, as the voracious appetite of AI data centers begins to consume the lion's share of the world's memory and flash production capacity. For the better part of two years, storage upgrades have been a rare bright spot for PC builders. SSD prices cratered to all-time lows in 2023 , with high-performance NVMe drives selling for little more than the cost of a modest mechanical hard disk. DRAM followed a similar trajectory, dropping to price points not seen in nearly a decade. In 2024, the pendulum swung firmly in the other direction, with prices for both NAND flash and DRAM starting to climb. The shift has its roots in the cyclical na...