Marketplace All-in-One What it's like to be in a relationship where wearable AI records your conversations
Dec 1, 2025
Marketplace reporter Matt Levin interviews Philip Comins, who shares his experience using an AI-enabled pendant that records conversations with his wife, Corinna. They explore how these wearables act as personal assistants and even relationship therapists, documenting everything from daily reminders to replayed arguments. Philip discusses the couple's rules around privacy and mutual consent for reviewing transcripts, highlighting both the benefits and challenges of this high-tech approach to communication.
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Wearables Promise Continuous Memory
- AI wearables record surroundings continuously and generate summaries and to-do lists in an app.
- Companies market them as portable personal assistants promising increased productivity.
Couple Uses Pendant To Replay Their Lives
- Philip and Corinna both wear always-on AI pendants that record daily conversations and store transcripts in an app.
- They replay fights and use summaries to reflect, with Philip even asking the AI to act as a couple's therapist.
Transcripts Expose Small Domestic Details
- Corinna's app read her AI-generated reminders about tidying and household tasks based on yesterday's conversations.
- They discovered unflattering moments in transcripts that prompted self-reflection and learning.