On building consumer wearables in 2026In conversation with Andy Kong @oldestasian interested in hardware? me too. fascinating chat, amazing lab aesthetic

00:00 quiz-bowl buzzers to the SF wearables scene

02:25 pebble, kickstarter, and what's changed

05:49 2 ways of developing wearables

06:59 CMs, budgets, and designing your own board

09:53 using Alibaba chat to source partners

14:07 planning a shenzhen trip

18:27 board vs mold design

25:53 boston vs sf vs nyc for wearables

30:00 LLMs + board design

33:50 is hardware still hard?

36:22 cubesats + chargerless

37:11 validate publicly, quickly

Apologies, this episode cuts out towards the end. My bad :,)