WIRED Tuesday November 25, 2025
Meta’s popular smart glasses “turn your face into a computer, with a camera and speaker,” but, notes Wired, another company, Even Realities, is going in another direction with a design that eschews those components. Instead, it is focusing on extending your smartphone through the display of its smart glasses while figuring out new mechanisms for controlling the experience. With no camera or speaker, the new Ever G2 glasses are all about the display. There’s also a smart ring that controls the display. Price: $599.
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HAT & BEARD PRESS Tuesday November 25, 2025
Jun Fujita, a Japanese immigrant who became a pioneering photojournalist in Chicago during the first half of the 1900s, “was not only a witness to momentous events in Chicago’s history; his photographs of these news events shaped the way they were recorded,” notes Hat & Beard Press, which has published the new book Jun Fujita: Behind the Camera. Fujita’s work elevated the mundane and made legendary figure more life-size. Among those he photographed, adds The Guardian, was Al Capone.
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Bloomberg Tuesday November 25, 2025
With a decline in movie production, German cinema camera maker Arri will close a lighting factory and distribution operations in Stephanskirchen and Brannenburg in Germany, reports Bloomberg. Arri reportedly began considering a sale earlier this year amid the troubled filmmaking environment. Arri was founded back in 1917 and has long been a mainstay in the cinema industry. The company’s lights, which have been undercut in recent years by cheaper alternatives, primarily from Chinese companies, were, for a while, a ubiquitous sight on professional film sets, adds PetaPixel.
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NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC Tuesday November 25, 2025
There’s still a month or so to go in 2025, but National Geographic has already released its annual Pictures of the Year feature showcasing 25 extraordinary images from the magazine "that most inspired and defined the past year through the eyes of its photographers and editors.” Among the photographers whose work is included: George Steinmetz, Karine Aigner, Anastasia Taylor-Lind, Anand Varma, Stephen Wilkes, Lalo de Almeida, Marcus Westberg, Craig Cutler, Brent Stirton, and Brian Skeery.
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