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 :,)