Smart Glasses for ADHD: An Ordinary Day With MemoMind One
Last updated: Sept. 23, 2026
Editor’s Note: This story is based on an interview with Bolo, who has permitted us to share his experience and direct statements.
Three weeks into his first semester, Bolo has settled into a routine most students don't have. He puts on his AI glasses when he wakes up in the morning and usually doesn't take them off until he goes to bed. The main exception is during exams, when proctors require him to switch back to standard eyewear.
Bolo was diagnosed with ADHD in elementary school, not long after his family moved to Canada. ADHD is a neurodevelopmental condition that can affect attention, impulse control, and executive function. The World Federation of ADHD International Consensus Statement estimates that ADHD affects about 5.9% of youth and 2.5% of adults worldwide.
For Bolo, some of the biggest challenges show up in ordinary moments throughout the day. Staying focused through a long lecture can be difficult, and reaching for his phone to check one thing can easily turn into twenty minutes spent doing something completely different.
Over the years, he's tried different ways to work around those problems, from notebooks to a tablet-and-watch setup and even another pair of smart glasses, the Even G2. MemoMind One hasn't replaced all of those tools, but it has become one of the few he uses from the moment his day begins until it ends.
An ADHD-Friendly Way to Take Notes in Every Lecture
In class, the hardest part was often trying to listen and take notes at the same time.
"I'd be writing down one point, and the professor would already be three slides ahead," Bolo says. "By the time I looked up, I'd lost the thread."
These days, he often puts the pen down altogether. When a lecture begins, he starts a recording on MemoMind One and focuses on listening and engaging instead. On one of his longer days, that can mean two 80-minute lectures back to back followed by another class that runs for three hours. MemoMind One can record through all of them without needing to be charged in between, typically leaving him with around 30 to 40 percent battery by the time he gets home.
Sometimes he'll also turn on live captions. If his attention slips for a moment or he misses what was just said, he can glance at the display and pick up the thread without stopping the lecture or reaching for another device.
The recording becomes more useful after class. Bolo takes the transcript and feeds it into third-party AI tools to create summaries and study guides, giving him another way to review material that he may not have fully caught the first time around.
Of course, recording a lecture isn't something that requires a pair of smart glasses. What matters to Bolo is that there isn't another device to remember, carry around, or keep charged. The same pair of prescription glasses he already wears throughout the day can handle the recording as well.
Staying Focused Without Reaching for His Phone
That ability to leave his phone alone has turned out to be useful well beyond the classroom.
For Bolo, taking out his phone to check something isn't always a quick interaction. A schedule, reminder, message, or notification can lead somewhere completely different before he even realizes it.
"I'll take it out to check one thing, like a schedule or a reminder, and suddenly 20 minutes later I realize I'm scrolling," he says. "Twenty minutes later I've completely forgotten what I opened my phone for in the first place."
MemoMind One gives him another way to handle many of those small interactions. He can check a reminder, look at his schedule, or get an answer to a quick question through the glasses. The information appears in front of him for a few seconds and then disappears, without leaving a feed or another notification waiting just a tap away.
"I get the information I need, and then I'm back to what I was doing," Bolo says. "With my phone, I might never get back."
It sounds like a small distinction, but for him, it's one of the reasons the MemoMind display glasses have stayed on his face instead of becoming another piece of technology sitting in a drawer.
The Maps Feature That Keeps Him From Looking Down
MemoMind One's Maps feature has become another part of that routine, especially when Bolo is getting around campus.
Finding parking close to campus or home can be a hassle, so he often gets around on an e-scooter instead. Checking directions on a phone while moving isn't exactly ideal. It means looking away from what's ahead, dealing with a screen that may have dimmed or locked, and looking downward at the handlebars.
With Maps running on MemoMind One in expand mode, the route remains visible in his field of view while he travels. He can check the next direction without having to stop and pull out his phone.
The display itself is bright enough to remain clearly visible outdoors, even under the bright midday sun. The bigger challenge is contrast. Because the display is green, it can become harder to read when it's competing with a visually busy background. Bolo's solution is simple.
"Even at high noon, the display is bright enough that I can still see it clearly," he says. "If the background gets too busy, I just tilt my head up a little so it's against the sky. The display is already pretty high up, so I barely have to move my head."
For someone who spends a lot of time moving between classes, it's become one of those features that doesn't seem particularly dramatic until he has to go without it.
The Most Natural Part of Wearing Smart Glasses
For something Bolo wears almost everywhere, MemoMind One tends to attract surprisingly little attention.
He wears the glasses in lectures, around campus, in the cafeteria, and while studying with other people. So far, only one person has figured out on their own that they're smart glasses.
That's important to him. "There's still a stigma around assistive technology, especially when it's ugly or obviously looks like a medical device," Bolo says. "I don't want everyone around me immediately knowing that I'm wearing something different or wondering why I need it."
That's part of what he appreciates about MemoMind One. At a glance, they look much like an ordinary pair of glasses rather than a piece of assistive technology. He finds them comfortable enough to keep on throughout the day, and unlike the Even G2 frames he previously tried, they don't pinch after extended wear.
The lack of a camera is another deliberate preference. Bolo isn't particularly interested in wearing glasses that could make the people around him wonder whether they're being filmed.
"Seeing someone wearing a camera on their face can make people uncomfortable," he says. "Even if there's a recording light, people know that someone with bad intentions could potentially disable it."
For his own use, MemoMind One's audio capture and the ability to reference information later are already enough. Much of his day is spent in classrooms and around other students, so having something that feels like an ordinary pair of glasses matters just as much as what the technology inside them can do.
The Habits MemoMind One Hasn't Replaced
MemoMind One hasn't replaced every tool Bolo uses to manage ADHD, nor does he expect one device to do everything.
He still has a stack of alarms on his phone to keep track of important things throughout the day. His phone still comes with him everywhere too, even if it spends considerably more time in his pocket now. Those are areas where he would like to see MemoMind One continue to grow.
None of that has stopped the glasses from becoming part of his everyday routine. Bolo still describes them as "magical," not because they've suddenly made ADHD disappear or made every lecture interesting, but because they remove some of the small points of friction that used to pile up throughout his day.
He can listen without worrying as much about writing everything down. He can check something without automatically opening his phone. He can find his way across campus without constantly looking down at a screen.
For Bolo, the most useful technology isn't necessarily the technology that does the most. Sometimes it's the technology that lets him spend less time thinking about the tool and more time doing whatever he was trying to do in the first place.
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