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I could give you ideas on how you could change people's lives by volunteering to teach at places like http://shhkids.org/ but I won't. What you should do though, is find something where you can cause impact, no matter how small, and then work your way up from there towards something that gives value and happiness to YOUR LIFE.

PS: I think this would pick up more steam if you changed the title to "Decentralized Twitter clone with Beaker and Dat Project"

EDIT: programmer's name is Tavis Rudd https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SkdfdXWYaI

That said, I'm more interested in figuring out how to get offline speech recognition running on Core with something like PocketSphinx and only relying on the 3g connection when needed.

All this has got me thinking about what the smallest Android boards/devices out there are and how I could get a Raspberry Pi Zero connected to a cellular network. Need to do more research on this.

Also, how cool is it that Pebble stems from that Steve Jobs story about him polishing pebbles? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-Yv-UdsmSo

TL;DR: you need a smartphone to run Alexa.

THIS. Core's basically a smartphone the size of a an iPod shuffle where the interface will not need a screen, and where you're expected to interact with it via voice or the 2 minimal programmable buttons (which will probably be context aware and provide even more functionality depending on what app you're using). This is why I find the whole device fascinating! The iPhone removed the keyboard, the core is removing the screen!

Can't agree more! I just wish they had a decent SDK so we could have apps on Garmin devices just like Pebble OS.

For the price (300eur) I'd actually be willing to try the HD 1920 x 1200 version, IF the HW and battery life turn out to be solid.

Honestly, there's a lot of talented people at Pebble, but their vision IMHO has just been the wrong one. I still think they should partner with someone like Timex, Casio or Garmin and ship something like an F-91W or a G-Shock with PebbleOS. That would be really interesting. Hell, if they partnered with Garmin they could probably build an awesome developer community around solid HW.

All this said, I really admire Eric and the rest of the staff at Pebble. They've put in a lot of hard work to ship something functional, BUT they really need to rethink how they're marketing themselves, who they're marketing to and what the vision of the company/product should be if they intend to survive.