Everybody has an Inner monologue. You’re probably thinking about your day, the tasks that you have to complete, or a conversation from the previous night when you commute on the train or bike or shower. Many of these thoughts are stored in the brain, and will be quickly forgotten when the train arrives. What if it was all recorded subtly in one location, so you can digest the information later?
Sandbar, a company that specializes in AI-powered smart rings, has envisioned Stream Ring as a product with this vision. Mina Fahmi, Kirak Hong and their cofounders have been working on the project for two years. Both worked previously at CTRL-Labs Meta is a later addition to the Meta family Mark Zuckerberg’s company The startup, neural interface, was acquired. Venture capital of 13 million dollars has been raised.
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Hardware is called Stream Ring. smart ring You wear it on your index fingers. You can talk to the ring by raising your hand. If you want, you can also whisper into it if others are around. Like many other apps, it doesn’t record any audio from your conversations with the ring. AI-powered wearables in the market right nowIt will then convert your speech into text that you can read in the Stream App.
“We think of this as the mouse for voice because it solves a lot of the challenges of a voice interaction at once,” Fahmi explains to me, in an unassuming office space located in Manhattan. “We mostly imagine it phone away, earbuds in—this allows you to interact immediately with no wake word.”
The flat edge has a capacitive ring sensor. You can tap and hold to record your thought without an assistant interrupting you. The assistant will respond to your tap, but you can turn it off by tapping the sensor. At launch, the hardware is waterproof so that you don’t need to worry when it rains or if your hands are sweating.
It can also be used as a controller for media, allowing you to tap once for playback or pause, then double-tap twice for next track or swipe up and down for volume. Sandbar may go out of business and lose its AI, but you will still have a media controller that is very expensive. that quickly turns into electronic waste. There are currently no features that track your health like the ones on other devices. smart rings today.
