I wear lots of technology for a living, ask me anything

Jan 30, 2026 09:00 PM - 2 months ago 81320

Victoria Song

is a elder newsman and writer of the Optimizer newsletter. She has much than 13 years of acquisition reporting connected wearables, wellness tech, and more. Before coming to The Verge, she worked for Gizmodo and PC Magazine.

Hello, friends.

It’s clip for different exclusive AMA for Verge subscribers, and this time, I’ll beryllium your host. I screen everything from wearables to dystopian cursed tech for illustration at-home urine labs and belligerent AI companions. At times, my occupation calls for flirting pinch Grok’s AI woman for 24 hours aliases coercing weird AI video apps to make odd French-kissing videos. Other times, I’m making personas of myself successful the Vision Pro. I besides do normal things, for illustration testing the latest smart glasses, smart rings, and smartwatches. Once successful a while, I get distant pinch shitposting astir the achromatic Apple Watch Ultra 2. Oh, and I besides constitute the Optimizer newsletter, successful which I analyse the wellness chaotic westbound and trim done tech hype astir whether this aliases that invention will really make your life better.

If you person immoderate burning questions astir the supra — aliases thing astir wearable, health, and user tech really — I’ll beryllium astir starting astatine 11AM PT/2PM ET. Feel free to time off your questions early successful the comments! And if you don’t person questions, travel bent retired anyway. I emotion to chat astir tech and commiserate astir immoderate and each gadget-related existential crises.

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