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title: 'I Tested Smart Glasses for a Month - MemoMind One Review'
source: 'https://youtube.com/watch?v=8O-DDFZsgaU'
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date: 2026-08-06
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# I Tested Smart Glasses for a Month - MemoMind One Review

> Source: [I Tested Smart Glasses for a Month - MemoMind One Review](https://youtube.com/watch?v=8O-DDFZsgaU)

## Summary

The video is a comprehensive review of the MemoMind One smart glasses, which feature dual-eye AR displays, AI assistant, teleprompter, translation, and more. The reviewer, Mike O'Brien, shares his experience after using them for a month, highlighting their design, features, performance, and pricing.

### Key Points

- **Introduction to MemoMind One** [00:01] — The glasses have dual-eye AR displays with 2,000 nits brightness, showing green text/icons. They are designed for productivity, not cameras, and look like normal glasses.
- **Design and Build** [01:28] — Available in three frame styles (magnesium, aluminum, titanium). Weigh less than 50g, comfortable for all-day wear. Battery life rated at 16+ hours.
- **Charging Method** [02:47] — Charges via a magnetic clip that slides over the right earpiece, or via USB-C. The case does not charge them.
- **Interface and Dashboard** [03:12] — Head tracking allows looking up to see dashboard (date, time, battery, weather) on left, and customizable complications (stocks, news, calendar) on right. Single press cycles through.
- **Head Motion Panel** [04:04] — Double press opens shortcuts: translate, play/pause, record. Select by turning head. Record feature allows voice notes with markers.
- **Live Translation** [05:08] — Supports 26 languages. Glasses listen and show text on phone and glasses. Tested with Spanish conversation, worked well.
- **Memo AI Assistant** [06:15] — Press and hold button to open AI. Can answer questions, control glasses, start recordings, and more. Voice/text responses.
- **Teleprompter Feature** [07:24] — Favorite feature. Script moves as you speak, follows pace, skips lines. Adjustable font size, AI follow mode, auto-scroll or manual.
- **Other Features** [09:17] — Maps with turn-by-turn directions, AI captions for accessibility, notifications, and more. Customizable in app.
- **App Customization** [10:27] — App allows customizing dashboard, complications, teleprompter settings, head-up angle, and more.
- **New Features and AI Limitations** [13:43] — OpenClaw integration possible. AI may hallucinate (e.g., setting timer). No subscription for basic features; optional Memo AI Plus for advanced AI.
- **Light Leak and Privacy** [15:32] — Minimal light leak; display is private. Only visible at perfect angle.
- **Speaker Test** [16:12] — Two modes: quiet and Harman. Sound leak minimal at 80% volume. Speakers good for music, calls, and AI feedback.
- **Microphone Test** [17:53] — Microphone quality good for calls; no negative feedback from callers.
- **Pricing and Compatibility** [18:07] — Works with iOS and Android. Retail price $599, Kickstarter special $399. Link in description.

### Conclusion

The MemoMind One smart glasses are a well-executed, productivity-focused device that delivers on its promise of useful AR features without compromising on comfort or privacy. Despite minor limitations, they represent a compelling option for those seeking smart glasses that enhance daily productivity.

## Transcript

of smart glasses that actually show you useful stuff on the lens like navigation, live translation, a smart teleprompter, AI chats, and honestly speakers for playing music or answering phone calls, and of all the smart
glasses I've tested, which I've tested dozens, these have to be the most well-thought-out and best executed with really interesting features, in my opinion. So, these are designed not to be like the Meta glasses that have
cameras. These are instead designed to make you more productive and ideally feeling like normal glasses. And looking at them, you can see it's a fairly can't tell they have a display unless you catch the light at the perfect
angle, you'll see a small little space where that display actually lies. And you'll really never even see them, making them, again, look and feel a lot like normal glasses. They also can be either prescription or non-prescription,
features throughout this video. This video was sponsored by Memo Mine, so in this video, I'll show you what these glasses can and cannot do. I'll and hopefully answer any questions you might have, so you can decide for
for you. So, first of all, let's start off with a quick rundown of the design, are actually on here. These have little displays, so dual eye AR displays. Each one's 2,000 nits, and you can see, like I said, a little rectangle on the lens,
uh but when you put them on, they'll show you green text or icons or arrows simple, basic display. You're still able to see all your surroundings, of course, materials go, these are available in three different frame styles with
different finishes such as magnesium aluminum, titanium. You got a lot of different options depending on what your style is. The speakers on the back are stereo speakers powered by Harman Audio EFX, so I'll talk more about the the
speakers later. I'll get into a little test as well. And like I said, the light filtering. I don't wear corrective lenses, so I just have these on the basic non-magnifying lenses here. And the battery life is rated for all day,
16 plus hours per charge. I find for my use, I'm easily getting through entire button on the right side and they have microphones for AI voice assistant and phone calls. Now, as far as the subjective aspect of the design, the
are very light and very comfortable. I can wear them all day and they feel like sit light on my nose. Uh they weigh less than 50 g, so pretty good balance of battery life and weight and size on these. As far as how they look, I I'm
not the biggest fan of how I look in glasses in general, but I know this is a there are several other styles. I tried them on back at CES when they were first debuting uh these glasses. Now, as far as charging goes, these do come with the
case, but the case is not how you charge them. Instead, these charge with two little piece that comes in the box with these and that piece will slide right over the back of the right earpiece. And you'll see it actually has a cutout
exposed. And you might wonder why would they do that? Well, technically, you if you wanted to. You could also, of course, take them off and plug them in USB Type-C like this and charge them. But again, if you wanted to wear them
possible right there. Now, getting into the interface, these have the ability to sense where you're looking, up, down, left, right. So, when I look up, the you can adjust this in the app for where it's going to show up. You could also
press the button once and that will open it up as well. The dashboard right now, going to show you on the left side. You can customize what it looks like, but date, time, battery life, weather, things like that are going to show up on
the left side. On the right side then, you have the rest of your dashboard. So, different stocks I'm watching. I can press that button once and cycle is a bunch of news articles and that's updating throughout the day. Honestly, I
really like seeing a couple headlines just when I glance up like this. We also have your calendar, your to-do list, and you can customize what's being shown on controlled just by pressing on the right side. And if you look down, that'll
on the app how long it's going to display until it disappears. If we double press that button, this brings you into the head motion panel, and you have three shortcuts here. And as I turn my head, it will allow me to select any
of them. So right now I have, for example, translate, play pause, and a about the game in a second. Play pause is just going to be playing and pausing speakers on them. So I'll like to just
from these. We'll do a sound bleed test to see how much other people can hear on these three with a ton of other ones in the app. Record is another one that I will record using the microphone on the glasses. Uh you can press it once to
play and pause, press it twice to leave a mark in your recording, and then hold really useful. Honestly, I feel like my best ideas are always like when I'm like taking videos on my phone uh just to like have voice notes. But this is a
note while you're obviously still looking at the road. And translate's glasses. You can select from 26 different languages in the app. The glasses listen and show you the text on your phone, but of course also on the
glasses. So I have it showing like Spanish to English. Uh it works channel just two girls having a 1-hour conversation in Spanish. Uh it included help people learn like Spanish and English. So uh it worked out really well
English and verify that the glasses were correct with that. Uh honestly, great and subtle way to listen to tours while you're traveling, listening to a lecture in another language, uh maybe a taxi in another country, or perhaps even help
you learn another language as you listen to someone speak, uh you know, a real in real life, and then get those subtitles just to really double-check yourself and know what they're saying. You could also customize those three options to include
controls, system settings like brightness, even a mini game. Remember I So, they have Tetris, they have Brick Breaker, where like it slides back and goes up and hits the bricks. And you actually control that game just by
the bottom. Honestly, I feel like most people probably won't do that all the time on here, but it just shows it was kind of a nice little fun touch. This feels like a cool new piece of technology that it's just cool it's fun
But getting back to the other parts of the interface, if you press and hold the button on the right side, this is really what I would say most of the benefit of the glasses is going to be. And this is allowing you to open up Memo AI. So,
it's going to be an AI assistant that can not only answer regular like uh you know, chat GPT style questions, but it can also do things on the glasses. You can choose if you want text and or voice responses. Uh and you can choose if you
choose if you want memory. And you can ask it to do things like I said related right now say, "What is the weather in London next week in Fahrenheit?" So, it It's checking the weather. And by the way, the display in here you're able to
going to look. Now, it's telling me the answer. Next week in London It's also >> 71° F and lows around 57° The week will start mostly fine with Monday, the 20th of July, reaching a
warm high of 79° F. >> It did a really good job. That was a also do AI recordings on here, so you can ask the AI to start a recording. It records audio and you can play that back as the original audio or you can see an
This is probably my favorite feature. I earlier in the video. It moves as you speak or you could set up like manual or could actually control with the volume button on your phone if you wanted to,
but the the following actually does such a good job. So, if you miss words, it's knowing what you say, and if you skip a line, it'll just bring you right up to pace right, you don't have to read faster or slower. You can speak
little bit, and you can come back to your script, and it's all right there. It's easy to read, it feels really natural, and like I said, if you ever control on your phone could scroll up and down, you know, if you need to. And
again, very subtle to do that, but that could be a useful thing. Like, I mean, time, but for example, I've seen CEOs give TED Talks wearing glasses like this and use teleprompter features. And it's just cool new technology. Oh, by the
percent like progress through the script. Um and it just gives you like you're actually doing with that. I could see this being useful, if not for a full some notes showing up there. Maybe you have a presentation and you're just
cards, you could have a couple bullet points showing up. So, you're able to point and continue on. That way, you're not like looking back at a PowerPoint. but I can see this being a really clean presentation. And as a little side note,
these glasses, I think in summary, just really feel well-thought-out and genuinely useful. And a lot of people are like trying to make glasses that do like they're doing the opposite. They're they're trying to be unique and do
things that my phone could not do. Like, my phone can't be a teleprompter. It looking at the world. I have to look down at my phone, and I think that's really a unique angle on smart glasses that I hope really continues. Other
calendar, you can set up schedules, thing to-do list. You also have AI in a second. Recordings, as I mentioned before, great for meetings, brainstorms, is what I usually do. You've got maps
turn-by-turn directions. So, when I'm wearing the glasses, it'll show me the full map and like where I'm going next or I could choose for just to be in the turn is. That could be useful if you're commuting or like riding your bicycle to
want to have your phone right there. So you just kind of glance up and you see you're walking and navigating through a city so you're not like crossing a know, you can't see traffic then. It's kind of a good balance and also just a
mentioned before that you have live translate. You also have AI captions difference is going to be it's in your native language. So if you are for example hard of hearing or if you're deaf then that could be really useful.
talk to you in the shop or whatever and you're able to just you know, have have basically captions on the glasses of what people are saying to you. I could see that being a huge accessibility win for anybody who like I said struggles to
notifications, date, weather and things at the app, this is how you can really customize what the glasses are going to do. So on the left side like I said we have that dashboard there that's going
You can choose what your clock looks like, what's showing there. You could the units and things like that. We also have the component area so you can dashboard. So I've got stocks, I've got calendar, news and notifications but you
also could have like your notes, lyrics for example if you wanted to use these maybe for karaoke. Like I said because these have that teleprompter feature could get the lyrics showing up and moving as you say them or I guess saying
them in that sense. And if I tap on like the little gear icon for stocks for is going to show me and you can have your little watch list going on and that complications here. We can also see on the bottom if I tap on each one of them
what that's looking like on the app. So the stocks of course show you b-roll of what it looks like to me. It's green and it looks really actually quite clear but that's supposed to look like. So, just for example, on the teleprompter, the
here, so the script above and below there. Um and if I just hit play, it'll automatically follow what I'm saying. "I've been a hardcore Spotify user for almost a decade, but Spotify and Apple
Music have changed a lot recently. And what used to be the best may look no Also, I can skip lines. I could just say, "Playlists that blend that your taste with a friend's Oh, see I scrolled past to that one. So, it does a good job
off script right now, it's not going to keep scrolling until I go back on script. Apple Music sounds better, but there are There we go. So, it moves up like that. So, that's how that would work. Also, again, you have settings on
here. You could set that to be larger or smaller font size. Uh you can have AI follow mode, as I mentioned, auto scroll, or manual. Just different ways teleprompter there. So, let's go back into the app where we were. So, back in
recorder here, so you can see your notes. You can also have from the glasses or from your phone. You've got calendar, your to-do list, things to do. couple other features over here as well, including maps over there, as well as
might have noticed this is everywhere. I'm able to take screenshots of what I this right now, it's going to take a screenshot of what the glasses are showing me, which is like the stocks in my dashboard, and I'm able to save that
to gallery either with a black background, transparent, or uh as a photo right now. I'm going to go transparent and save to gallery. And it is for most people, but it's cool that that exists. On the left side, if
we tap on the three bars at the top, you're able to change memory on or off. uh your head up, do you want that to turn on or off? And if we go into actually works and what angle it's actually going to engage that. So,
far or how close it is. How you can raise it up and down as well, so it's a comfortable location to see it. As As as the head up goes, you can actually tap adjustment, and then all you do is look to a comfortable angle. So, for me it's
7° right here, and as long as I hold there for a second, it then locks it in, and that's the new angle. When I look up to there, it'll turn the glasses on. And can answer phone calls by nodding and shaking your head. And the last thing I
There's a couple new features rolling out. This may change by the time you actually get these, but for example, you can set up open claw with these. Uh the of a cool feature in my opinion, but I'm sure they're going to add more as well.
model does a really good job, but uh before just like blindly trusting it, if I tell it to set a 1-minute timer, it'll tell me it does that. LLMs do this, and it's not actually able to, but it does set like a uh a notification and
up in 1 minute. So, it sort of does. It has a really good workout. It really tries its best, but again, you know, it does a lot, and I'm sure that the expanding, but you always want to double-check AI uh when they say they
everything I've mentioned so far, there's no subscription for these features. There is an optional subscription though that gives you some more advanced AI. There's really three main things it does. One is called
Moments. So, Memo AI Plus is what they call it. Generates a daily journal for do during the day, and organizes it into chapters and gives you AI-generated artwork. Kind of organizes like a daily journal for you. You also have Up Next.
Throughout the day, to-do items are automatically categorized into wishes and suggestions. Wishes are going to be like aspirations. Suggestions are more action items that you want to focus on maybe tomorrow. And of course, you have
Memo AI Plus, which unlike regular Memo AI, which we've been seeing throughout interactions you get, this one's much more uh contextual. It's based on you, meeting notes, calendars, recordings. It digs through memories to be more
mentioned this one thing?" or "What did I say in uh X meeting about whatever? And it's going to again have that more context. So that is the subscription and I'll talk more about that in a minute, you do get 6 months of that for
with these. Starting off with the light leak test, I found that unlike a lot of other smart glasses, these do very little light leak. Like really only at the perfect angle you'll get a little glimpse of green there, but you're never
going to see what I'm seeing. At least from any angle that I've tried you know, recording these. You never like it's very private in my opinion. As far as the button on the right side. You have nodding and shaking and moving your head
or anything behind your ear or anything have volume controls somewhere on here. If I'm listening to music, I have to go into I have to double press this, look up, then go over to volume controls to
little slide or some volume control on there. As far as the speakers go, there are two modes. One is quiet mode. Let's do a sound leak test with that. Okay, so at 80% volume, this is really loud for me. I'm like I don't know, 8 inches away
it's able to pick up anything from these glasses.
here, that was very faint if you heard it at all. Now let's go over to Harman meant to really make it so that only you can hear it. Harman mode's going to have more bass on here. Let's see how that sounds. Again, 80% volume. Let's see if
you can hear it. I'm still like 6 to 8 inches away from my microphone.
loud In my ears, I would typically listen a lot lower than that. Um but you have. Now, the speaker works well for music. I think it's great to have just some subtle background music if you're like working and you know, you
want to hear your surroundings. Um but I actually find that the speakers are best for me for one, the voice assistant feedback. I find that's very useful. But two, answering phone calls on here really is a nice experience. You're able
and you don't need to have earbuds in your ears to answer a phone call. So, we're just going to do a microphone test now. This is the microphone on the Memo Mind One glasses. I'm inside, obviously, but we'll see how this sounds. I think I
calls. Nobody said anything negative about my audio quality, but let me know how this sounds when you actually know that these are from the glasses. Now, as far as compatibility and pricing goes, these do work with iOS and with Android.
And so, pricing for these glasses at launch is going to be $599. That's the retail price. However, right now, if you're watching this video close to launch, there is a Kickstarter special at $399. So, $200 off to buy these
glasses if you're buying them early. Uh but of course, you know, that doesn't last forever. So, at launch, these will be launching at $599. Check out the link in the description down below to see what the pricing is at the time of well,
whenever you're watching this video. But again, these glasses still very new. I rolling out, but I'm excited to see like a pair of glasses like this that was excited to add a lot of features and have genuinely new tech. If I was
somebody that wore glasses every day, I would absolutely be switching over to these as soon as I could because again, you're already wearing glasses. This just makes it way smarter. Even for somebody who doesn't wear glasses, I
and interesting. So, leave a comment below and let me know what you think would like to see, any questions you might have. I've been using these for a couple weeks now and uh I'm happy to answer any questions you have. Thanks
for watching, guys. I'm Mike O'Brien and I'll see you in the next video.