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My wife reads on a kindle with a larger font and since the margins are much smaller and my font size is a bit smaller as well we’re basically reading similar sized pages.
Xteink is smaller, thinner, and magnetic. It’s cheaper and available today. It has physical buttons. There’s a ton of firmware options and community around it already. Some firmwares have apps and games beyond reading if that interests you. Community firmwares vastly open up available file formats.
Both are some form of open, although Xteink probably less so given some models are locked. Both will require some hunting for DRM free ebooks. Both run ESP32 chips, the Open Book touch running a more powerful dual core one.
I love my X3. The size and magnetic feature means I always have it on me for a quick read whenever a moment strikes.
Couple of things I would suggest:
Maybe get rid of 1-2 character words in the word counter? Seems easy for it to hit things like i or ie etc. I would love to see a counter that ignores those at least
Also the report card section on the Shakespeare progress panel wasn’t scrollable on iOS.
Neat either way!
I don't believe a weighted vest provides that same feel, but I'm not entirely sure how they differ either.
I have one of their units. It definitely assists with hiking in the standard modes and the "aqua mode" on the device does increase resistance. As an able-bodied person who hikes for sport, I don't tend to use it much. Though I sometimes throw it on with aqua mode for some added resistance for smaller hikes.
I love the notifications and the other stuff as well (mapping, translations... Even streaming YouTube through them while I exercise) but my primary driver for these was to have a rapidly accessible camera. I found great success with the Humane AI Pin primarily for this feature.
FYI there are some other options available today for glasses without cameras (Vuzix has some, as well as some announced at CES) and/or with simpler screens... As well as some with screens in the frame (like Halliday) if the rainbow effect gets to you.
If you remove all paid content you would just have blogs left eventually… And all they’re doing is just paying for the content and regurgitating it.
* Take a photo/video with a couple taps
* Have it "see" the area in front of you and give you insight - e.g. "Look at the desk in front of me, find all the items on it and put it into a note titled 'My Messy Desk'"
* Find information for you and do stuff with it - get me the number for X and dial it. Or get me the number for X and add it to a contact labeled Y
* Play me classic rock songs that feature "sunshine" as the main theme
* Add to my X log, at the current date and time that Y occurred
* Find me 25 songs that match X and put them into a note in X order
* Find me places where I can buy soda at that are open at the moment nearby
* Review my X log, remove any entries where Y occurred and replace them with Z
* How long is the second movie of the one about the desert, and what's it named?
Imagine if your digital assistant didn't suck, but then scale back your ambitions a bit because it's early lol. It's neat. Could you replicate it in order ways that aren't a wearable? Sure. But it's a decent assistant, nice always-accessible camera, speaker for music, wearable for texts/calls/whatever and I like the location it sits at.
Since it's so friction-less, it's easier to be curious IMO.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/27/business/dealbook/daniel-...
My Samsung lasted like 3 years before it started freezing up the ice maker and eventually it started failing during cooling. We dealt with throwing away food, defrosting it, replacing the evaporator fan, keeping a constant eye on it before we finally ditched it for a Bosch (haven’t had it long enough to say if that was a good move).
So much waste, it’s crazy how poor quality these fridges are.
This is a startup and tech community. What's the point of Dropbox when "you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem"?
Just because there's alternatives doesn't mean this product doesn't have a space in the market.
> You will notice that many of these tasks are just interacting with the lazy Silicon Valley dipshit treat ecosystem that already exists.
Honestly I'm hesitant about AI devices as well but dismissing it entirely is very Luddite-like. Will these smart AI devices succeed? Who knows... It's a risk but I can absolutely see areas where these devices will succeed - like bringing tech to the tech illiterate (or even just illiterate).
And Rabbit's price-point puts it in a very competitive position to be the iPhone of AI devices. Worth watching to see how these things continue to develop.