Earbuds are small, which is great for comfort, but their tininess is a serious limitation for actually doing things other than letting you hear and talk. You can't use them to fly, fry, pry, or purify. Compare them with a smartphone and they're one-hit (two, actually) wonders, right? They'll never even compete with a Swiss Army Knife. Pathetic.

But what if you shoved cameras inside your earbuds and connected them to a voice-activated, speaking LLM (large language model) that could answer your questions about anything you were looking at?

Uh, why would anybody do that? Well, ever hear of described audio (DA), bud? And while DA would be massively helpful to anyone with visual impairments, imagine the benefits for safety, productivity, and navigation from simply being able to ask questions and get answers from a disembodied voice in your ear (like the Great Gazoo, Harvey, or Head Six) that can "see" exactly where you're looking. And no, not questions like, "Is God hiding behind that cloud," but more like, "What does this Spanish road sign mean?" or "What are all these devices on my new work station?".