Startup debuts smart glasses with industry’s longest battery life

The Loomos A1 smart glasses raised over a million dollars on Kickstarter in one day.

Thai power solutions provider Sharge (formerly Shargeek) has started a Kickstarter campaign for its Loomos A1 smart glasses.

Featuring a W517 main control chip with a 4-core, 2.0GHz processor, the glasses allow users to snap meeting slides and lectures and get summarized notes on a phone app.

Weighing 49 grams, they can also capture a menu for translation in the app, listen to translations, and have an assistant powered by OpenAI’s GPT 4-o.

For multimedia capture, the Loomos A1 has 16MP photo and video recording with Sony sensors, allowing it to take 4K photos and 1080p video.

The wearable has a speaker unit and is IPX4 water and IP5X dust-resistant, which means the glasses can be used in light rain.

According to Sharge, Loomos A1 features the longest battery life, beating competitors like Meta’s Ray-Bans. The 450 mAh battery can reportedly last one day of usage, and it delivers 40+ hours in standby mode. An additional 6500 mAh neckband is sold separately.

Before interactions with ChatGPT, the data is reportedly anonymized and encrypted both when it is stored on the wearable and sent to the cloud. The company told Cybernews that when processing in the cloud is needed, the data is sent to its local servers in the US.

Sharge is currently retailing the smart glasses starting at $200 on its Kickstarter page.

A number of companies are launching smart glasses to capture the potentially lucrative future market. They were one of the biggest trends at this year’s CES 2025 show in Las Vegas.

After trying several smart glasses at the show, I’ve noticed that many are a work in progress, and using them may feel strange and not as smooth as you might wish.

They also raise privacy issues, including surveillance and recording. To inform others that the glasses are recording, Loomos AI has an LED indicator that will light up whenever users are in video mode.