[davesmylie]

I suspect this is the only way they can differentiate it from a phone, and it will be pointless.

Voice-to-text is already as good as it needs to be now, and most people barely use it because unless you are driving, a keyboard is better. I don't want others to hear what I'm searching for - or for the device to be always on, listening. A keyboard of some sort seems unavoidable.

As soon as you put a keyboard on it, then it needs a screen. As soon as you have those two things you pretty much have a phone - and why would anyone want a second device that's basically just another phone that could have just as easily been an app on their existing phone.

It'll need to android based if they want any one to use it as otherwise they'll trying to start from scratch, and why would anyone use something that doesn't have access to the 27 million existing app on the android app store. (see windows mobile)

[disqard]

(Totally sarcastic here)

Maybe it'll be a collar you wear around your neck.

You can "sub-vocalise" and talk to it.

Jony Ive can make sure it's styled and made out of shell cordovan leather or somesuch -- the fanbois are gonna go wild for it.

Soon, everywhere you look, people will look like they're into BDSM.

(and guess who will "Dominate" you?)

[ivape]

Lanier mics already have an interesting form factor:

https://www.amazon.com/PQRQP-Microphones-Microphone-Reductio...

With an always on mic that can pick up a wake word, that's aesthetic and discreet, you can have a Jarvis-like access to AI. The problem is I can't see how they would sell everyone on carrying around another brick along with our phone. We may be looking at a suite of devices that are more like clothing, such as a lanier mic that you clip on, a lapel pin, something that wraps around and sits behind your collar like a clip-on tie, small buttons that act as cameras, and finally a backback (Jetpack!?) that acts as the "brick".

If we want to get totally out there, then just start selling clothes that incorporate all of that. It can be the early form of the cybernetic suit. We haven't even explored why we can't just have computers in the thick part of our sneakers, which would be completely unobtrusive compared to what we've got going on now days.

If it's just a "brick", then why not just be a phone? I'd expect the brick to do some amazing things like know where I am in the room, recognize hand gestures, voice, and so on, but again, we're almost back to a phone.

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But the answer might quite simple. We haven't had a brick that has 30 days+ of battery power and always online. Such a brick doesn't have to do anything but pass along API calls to OpenAI servers and get back API results. Business-wise, it makes the most sense. If a brick like that can be a discreet part of my clothing, that would be perfect (thinking belt buckle like a Power Ranger).

[micah94]

I totally see this happening. Doesn't sound sarcastic at all.