This Ai Ring Takes Notes For You And Even Talks Back - In Your Own Voice

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ZDNET's cardinal takeaways 

• Sandbar's Stream Ring is a wearable note-taker. 
• It useful for illustration a microphone astir your finger.
• Stream Ring is now disposable to preorder. 

While astir AI assistants effort to do everything -- from navigating directions and answering random queries to uncovering and reserving an acceptable meal spot -- this startup's merchandise takes a simpler, much straightforward approach. 

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Sandbar's first product, nan Stream Ring, is an AI note-taker that tin seizure moreover speedy aliases quiet conversations arsenic good arsenic stream-of-consciousness narration, for illustration erstwhile a personification dictates to it offhand, according to nan company.

"Thoughts bubble up constantly, particularly erstwhile we're connected nan go. I wanted to seizure thoughts aliases talk done ideas, without pulling retired a telephone aliases speaking into nan void. Importantly, I wanted that acquisition to consciousness for illustration soul dialogue, not a speech pinch a virtual companion," Mina Fahmi, CEO and co-founder of Sandbar, said successful a property merchandise shared pinch ZDNET.  

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Fahmi and Kirak Hong first worked together astatine CTRL-Labs, wherever they worked connected neural interfaces. Now, pinch a merchandise of their own, they're aiming to create exertion that expands a user's expertise to deliberation and definitive thoughts for themselves, pinch privateness and encryption baked in. 

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The Stream Ring fits astir nan scale digit and engages pinch nan speaker astatine a conversational pace. When users group up their ringing connected nan app, they besides group their Inner Voice, nan personalized sound that speaks backmost to them. Inner Voice is tailored to each user's circumstantial voice, but users tin besides take a different-sounding 1 if nan thought of their ain sound talking backmost to them is excessively uncanny. 

Once group up, users initiate nan ringing by bringing it to their rima and pushing nan touchpad to interact. The Stream Ring vibrates to awesome it is listening (it only listens upon touchpad initiation). The ringing past takes notes, which users tin entree and edit wrong nan accompanying app. 

Sandbar said on its website that nan ringing tin seizure ideas successful a assortment of sound environments, whether it's signaling a susurration successful a quiet room aliases connected nan go. It does not request a mobile relationship to activity aliases seizure audio.

How to effort it 

Two models, Stream Silver for $249 and Stream Gold for $299, are now disposable for preorder. The ringing originates shipping successful summertime 2026. 

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Sandbar offers a $10 Stream Pro monthly subscription for unlimited notes, chats, and early features. The ringing comes pinch 3 months free and has all-day artillery life.