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Apple’s building a wearable panopticon and calling it Siri

Ellsworth Toohey
Feb 19, 2026
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Tim Cook and Mike Johnson

Apple employees have a nickname for the company’s latest gadget: the “eyes and ears” of the iPhone. It’s a disc packed with two cameras and three microphones — you clip it to your collar or wear it around your neck, and it watches and listens to the world around you all day long, feeding everything to Siri. This is a real produc…

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