I could totally see an open-source version of the same, that you can probably put somewhere on your chest. Maybe it could be a all-in-one device to use wired headphone without losing on the music quality by caching it beforehand, or having a really good audio codec and data-transfer tech.
Maybe it could have all of that fancy camera and vibration motor minus the stupid projector, maybe a vlogging camera, or a add-on for medical emergency - measure heart-rate, check for fall-detection, pulse count, etc or something, I don’t know. Maybe it could have the ability to use self-hosted LLMs.
And I could see it having a niche audience like the Pebble smartwatch. But what they’ve come up with is total proprietary garbage. No one in their right minds would pay 1000$ (700$ + additional costs) for this, no one will want to let an AI company harvest their personal data to their their stupidly over-priced model.
Gargoyles represent the embarrassing side of the Central Intelligence Corporation. Instead of using laptops, they wear their computers on their bodies, broken up into separate modules that hang on the waist, on the back, on the headset. They serve as human surveillance devices, recording everything that happens around them. Nothing looks stupider; these getups are the modern-day equivalent of the slide-rule scabbard or the calculator pouch on the belt, marking the user as belonging to a class that is at once above and far below human society. They are a boon to Hiro because they embody the worst stereotype of the CIC stringer. They draw all the attention. The payoff for this self-imposed ostracism is that you can be in the Metaverse all the time, and gather intelligence all the time.
I could totally see an open-source version of the same, that you can probably put somewhere on your chest. Maybe it could be a all-in-one device to use wired headphone without losing on the music quality by caching it beforehand, or having a really good audio codec and data-transfer tech.
Maybe it could have all of that fancy camera and vibration motor minus the stupid projector, maybe a vlogging camera, or a add-on for medical emergency - measure heart-rate, check for fall-detection, pulse count, etc or something, I don’t know. Maybe it could have the ability to use self-hosted LLMs.
And I could see it having a niche audience like the Pebble smartwatch. But what they’ve come up with is total proprietary garbage. No one in their right minds would pay 1000$ (700$ + additional costs) for this, no one will want to let an AI company harvest their personal data to their their stupidly over-priced model.
-Stephenson in Snow Crash’92