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The vision here is much more ambitious than a smart watch, and it probably helps them to introduce it as something that doesn't compete with the Apple Watch / Google Pixel Watch / Samsung Galaxy Watch. The neural wristband is meant to go on the right wrist, so potentially it could complement a more traditional smart watch, or pair with some future Meta smart watch.

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I'd buy it if I could use it as a dumb bluetooth keyboard. As it stands he's ambitious for a vision that has no use in my life—I'm generally trying to escape digital interaction, not constantly immerse myself in it.

It'd be interesting to try it as a regular keyboard too. Probably a bit too imprecise even for skilled users, but who knows.

And if you really get into them, maybe it's worth spending the time to learn chords instead, like for a court stenographer?

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