INMO recalls 1,643 Air3 smart glasses over burn hazard

The US Consumer Product Safety Commission has recalled about 1,643 INMO Air3 smart glasses after the left temple was found to overheat during extended use, a fault the agency says poses a risk of serious injury or death from burns. The notice was published on 24 September and issued in conjunction with Canada, where roughly 120 more units were sold.

What owners should do

Owners are told to stop using the glasses immediately and to contact INMO for a free repair. The fix is a system update rather than a replacement unit: INMO will help users move the glasses to software version V3.16 online. In the United States the company can be reached on 888-212-9620 between 9am and 5pm ET on weekdays, by email at support.usa@inmoxr.com, or through the recall page on its own site.

Ten reports of heat and burns

The commission says INMO has received 10 reports of Air3 glasses overheating, including reports of a burning sensation to the face and the left side of the ear. The recalled model is the AIR3, a black pair of glasses used for AI translation, AI-assisted productivity and media streaming, carrying the words AIR3 and INMO on a label on the inner face of the right temple.

Where they were sold

The affected units went on sale at Amazon.com, Inmoxr.com and Kickstarter.com between December 2025 and August 2026, priced between $900 and $1,300. The importer is INMO International Technology Limited, of China, and the glasses were manufactured in China. The recall carries the number 26-797 and is listed as a Fast Track Recall, meaning the firm worked with the agency on the remedy rather than being compelled into it.

Our opinion

A burn hazard on a device you wear on your face is the kind of fault that should end a product, and this one ends with a download. Reading the notice closely, the remedy for 1,643 pairs of $900 glasses is to update the system to V3.16, which is an admission that the heat came from the software's demands on the hardware rather than from a manufacturing defect that could be swapped out at a service centre. That is a reasonable engineering answer and a deeply unsatisfying consumer one, because nobody has said what the update costs the wearer in performance, and owners who bought in through a Kickstarter campaign have already proved they will accept a certain amount of unfinished software. Ten reports of a burning sensation to the ear is enough for a regulator to act, and the Fast Track label suggests INMO moved quickly once asked. The harder question for the category is whether every AI wearable has the thermal headroom its marketing assumes, because the answer here appears to have been no.