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Sandbar's Stream Ring is a wearable note-taker.
It works like a microphone around your finger.
Stream Ring is now available to preorder.
While most AI assistants try to do everything -- from navigating directions and answering random queries to finding and reserving an acceptable dinner spot -- this startup's product takes a simpler, more straightforward approach.
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Sandbar's first product, the Stream Ring, is an AI note-taker that can capture even quick or quiet conversations as well as stream-of-consciousness narration, like when a user dictates to it offhand, according to the company.
"Thoughts bubble up constantly, especially when we're on the go. I wanted to capture thoughts or talk through ideas, without pulling out a phone or speaking into the void. Importantly, I wanted that experience to feel like inner dialogue, not a conversation with a virtual companion," Mina Fahmi, CEO and co-founder of Sandbar, said in a press release shared with ZDNET.
Fahmi and Kirak Hong first worked together at CTRL-Labs, where they worked on neural interfaces. Now, with a product of their own, they're aiming to develop technology that expands a user's ability to think and express thoughts for themselves, with privacy and encryption baked in.
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