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Pebble Index 01 – External memory for your brain

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Re: Pebble Index 01 – External memory for your brain

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dsp_person wrote: post #452
erohead wrote: post #65

(Pebble founder) Happy to answer any questions you have!

Can I use something like syncthing to easily backup the recordings and transcripts off my phone? Google's Recorder app makes this a big PITA if I don't want to enable upload to cloud storage, there is a very tedious manual way to export recordings. I really just want plain old data and to be able to copy or delete files via the filesystem. And not be required to use some cloud service.

The app is 100% open source so you could add that feature if you wanted to. We'd love a PR for that!

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dzink wrote: post #198
erohead wrote: post #65

(Pebble founder) Happy to answer any questions you have!

1. Will it fit on a female with a size 3 finger? 2. Can we pick our own transcription service or export audio to transcribe elsewhere if you transcription is not reliable or privacy is needed? 3. Is it waterproof? Can I wash my hands without taking it off?

1. smallest size is 6 2. yes! You can send your recordings to any webhook. 3. yes! can even shower with it on

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arjvik wrote: post #295
erohead wrote: post #65

(Pebble founder) Happy to answer any questions you have!

How hackable is the firmware, if we want to assign different handling to the button presses? Can we flash our own firmware to the device?

The firmware is not open source. I licensed it from a friend of mine.

You can definitely assign different actions to button presses, that's handled by the phone side

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clueless wrote: post #307
erohead wrote: post #65

(Pebble founder) Happy to answer any questions you have!

could this be a used a bluetooth microphone, so I could use it with a laptop as a quick voice dictation/input for various uses? I'm thinking like a simple microphone for an localy hosted app like Hex: https://github.com/kitlangton/Hex

You could write software to do that if you wanted to

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roughly wrote: post #217
erohead wrote: post #65

(Pebble founder) Happy to answer any questions you have!

I actually like the device and can see the purpose of it - I’ve tried to kick together similar solutions in the past, but I like the very “one thing only” nature of this. That said, I absolutely cannot buy a device like this without a replaceable battery. I don’t actually care about the recharge, I get what you’re trying to do with it, but given the state of the e-waste world and, bluntly, the history of hardware bra…

This isn't a question I understand, but I appreciate you writing it. At the end of the day it's up to you - if you think this is useful, please use it. If you don't want to use it because of the 4.7 grams of e-waste, I do get it.

All consumer tech is intentionally disposable. That's life. Especially for tiny smart rings that are water resistant. It's a ring, it's going to get banged up, you'll lose it or smash it. It's new tech - there will always be a new version, etc.

Better to have loved and lost than to have never loved at all.

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scratchyone wrote: post #401
erohead wrote: post #65

(Pebble founder) Happy to answer any questions you have!

what safety measures does this have to avoid some incident (held down button, software bug, etc) draining the entire battery within a few hours, thus bricking the device?

It has a hard cutoff built into the firmware at two minutes so after that point the recording stops and the ring turns off until the next button press.

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Post by erohead »

yalok wrote: post #424
erohead wrote: post #65

(Pebble founder) Happy to answer any questions you have!

how large are the STT and LLM models that you use on-device? are they part of the OS or downloaded with the app?

There are several different options you can pick from between 50MB and 600MB.

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Post by graeme »

darkwater wrote: post #544
mannykannot wrote: post #526

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Sometimes the cost is that there is no viable product.

And that is perfectly fine!

That's not what a lot of proponents of these laws argue. They often state that if a company is making something unavailable in the EU due to one of the laws that the company is throwing a fit or being spiteful.

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Post by scratchyone »

erohead wrote: post #566
scratchyone wrote: post #396

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personally, i worry about what happens when it doesn't last for years. a software bug causes high power draw, or you set your ring down and something gets pushed against the recording button for a few hours, or you fall asleep laying on it. given it only has a 15-hour recording life, this happening just once could be the end of your $75 device

We thought about this of course: the ring is limited to 2-minute recordings, then button presses are ignored until the next button press

amazing! does it provide any other protections against other battery drain risks? glad you guys though of that haha, definitely will be ordering one :)

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Post by scratchyone »

Daneel_ wrote: post #499
scratchyone wrote: post #392

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Yeah, there's lots of places you can't speak out loud bc it's disruptive to others though. Personally I set a lot of Siri reminders, but it's weird and uncomfortable to talk loudly at your phone in public spaces so I can only use it at home or outdoors. If the ring can follow through on the promise of being able to whisper to it, that's fairly valuable imo

You can whisper to Siri on your phone or your watch too - that’s not a ring exclusive.

Definitely, but Siri is terrible at understanding quiet speech and you have to hold your phone/watch right up to your mouth. A ring is definitely a much nicer form factor for that.
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