Every day, professionals walk out of meetings with ideas half-remembered, insights half-formed, and conversations that could have changed everything — but didn’t, because nobody wrote it down fast enough. Domingo, co-founder of Gyges Labs, thinks the answer is already on your finger.
Gyges Labs is the Silicon Valley-born, Singapore-connected startup behind Vocci — the world’s first AI note-taking ring, which made its global debut at CES 2026. Vocci is disarmingly simple: a titanium ring, worn like jewellery, with a single button. Double-click to begin recording a full conversation or meeting; single-click to mark a highlight mid-recording. By the time your meeting ends, a structured summary — complete with transcript and commentary — is already waiting for you, in any of 100+ languages, with end-to-end encryption protecting every word.
The same team — PhDs from Stanford and UCLA, alumni of Google, Apple and Hikvision, and the creators of the Halliday Glasses, which raised $3.3 million in crowdfunding — is building proactive AI glasses that don’t wait to be asked. They anticipate. They surface context before you need it. And together, the two products represent Gyges Labs’ core conviction: that AI should work alongside human thinking, not interrupt it.
We caught up with Domingo on the BEYOND expo floor to hear what drives the company, who they’re building for, and why their dream is nothing short of becoming the next Apple.
For anyone seeing Vocci for the first time — what is it, and what problem is it actually solving?
In our busy lives, we’re always having conversations that matter — but we never have enough time to write everything down. Vocci is a ring you wear on your finger that records invisibly, so you can stay completely present in the moment. When you hear something worth keeping, one click marks it as a highlight. After a one-hour meeting, you get a structured summary — the whole conversation distilled to maybe 50 seconds. It captures the flow, keeps the insight inside, and handles all the follow-up so you don’t have to.
Walk me through the experience of actually using it.
The interaction friction is very small — that’s by design. A double-click begins and ends recording. The ring picks up sound across a five-metre range, so you’re not hovering over a microphone or disrupting the room. When you hear something important, a single click marks it as a highlight and the AI filters the surrounding context to prioritise what matters. When you’re done, it syncs with the Vocci app for transcription and full summary — you receive a transcript complete with a summary and commentary. You can record using the ring alone — independently from your phone — but for transcription and summaries, you do need the app. The idea is that you never need to carry anything extra. Just the ring.
What about the hardware itself — durability, battery, water resistance?
It’s built from aerospace-grade titanium alloy — lightweight, hypoallergenic, and designed for 24/7 wear. Battery gives you eight hours of continuous independent recording. It ships with a charging case that can recharge the ring to full in just 30 minutes — though how much additional battery the case itself stores is still to be confirmed. The design is intentional too — it looks like jewellery, not a gadget. We offer different finishes, including gold, because we wanted it to appeal to everyone. The wearability was as important to us as the performance.
You launched at CES 2026 and won four awards. What did that moment mean for the company?
It validated everything we believed about where the smart ring market was going. Every other ring out there is tracking your heart rate or your sleep. We made a deliberate choice to go in a completely different direction — towards cognitive value, towards productivity, towards the professional use case. The response told us there was a real gap, and that people were genuinely ready for it.
Tell me about Gyges Labs’ second product — the proactive AI glasses. What does “proactive” actually mean in practice?
Most AI today is reactive — you ask, it answers. Proactive AI is different. The glasses listen to your context continuously and surface relevant information before you ask for it. Walking into a meeting with someone? The glasses can remind you what your last conversation was about, and help you prepare in real time. The AI is anticipating your needs rather than waiting to be prompted. That’s the core distinction — and it’s what makes it genuinely new. Some features are already available; others are still in active development.
Who is the primary user you’re building Vocci for?
Our mission is to make everyone stronger — to give everyone the kind of cognitive support that used to require an assistant or a perfect memory. But I think journalists, in particular, will find it immediately transformative. You’re always in conversations, always capturing information, and you can’t always be looking down at a recorder or a phone. Vocci handles it all invisibly, so you stay present. Lawyers, financial professionals, creative workers — anyone whose work lives in conversation — this is built for them.
You have PhDs from Stanford and UCLA on the team, alumni of Google and Apple, and a track record with Halliday Glasses. How does that background shape what you’re building?
It means we don’t build for the product demo — we build for real users. With Halliday, we delivered over 15,000 units. That gave us something most hardware startups never get: genuine feedback at scale, before we built Vocci. We learned that people want more than note-taking after the fact. They want low-friction, full-scenario AI they can access without looking at a screen, without picking up their phone, without breaking the flow of their day. That’s what Vocci is — and what our AI glasses push even further.
You’re designed in California and Silicon Valley, manufactured in China, and shipping globally. Someone here compared you to Apple. Is that the ambition?
It’s our dream. The structure is similar — R&D in Silicon Valley and Singapore, manufacturing in Shenzhen, sold to the world. But more than the model, what we want is the same kind of impact: a product that changes how people live and work, that becomes something they genuinely can’t imagine being without. Pre-orders were expected to open in early 2026, with the ring shipping in the US and Europe later in the year.
Final thought — what’s the big picture vision for Gyges Labs?
We want AI to work alongside human intuition, not replace it. The world moves fast, and too many important moments are being lost to the limits of human memory and attention. Vocci is the start. The proactive glasses are the next step. But the destination is a world where every person has access to an AI that knows their context, anticipates their needs, and helps them think — without getting in the way.
Gyges Labs operates across Silicon Valley, Singapore and Shenzhen. Gyges Labs also created the Halliday Smart Glasses.
Ruchi Kumar is the associate editor at Entrepreneur News Network and TVW News India, where she leads editorial strategy, brand storytelling, and startup ecosystem coverage. With a strong focus on innovation, business, and marketing insights, he curates impactful narratives that spotlight India’s evolving entrepreneurial landscape. She has written extensively on fintech, AI and emerging startups.