Privacy, which companies were once happy to claim was all about personal choice, is now primed to affect everyone around you even more than it already did. Meta and Google’s smart glasses can record anything the owner is looking at or use artificial intelligence to describe it. Apple’s* Audio Intelligence feature turns every Apple Watch into a transcription machine that records or summarizes your day. Amazon’s Bee devices take that a step further and can record and transcribe everything. Dozens of other…
As someone with ADHD, the concept of it - having essentially a second brain that helps you remember, prioritise information, work your calendar, todo list, reminders, etc. - is great.
The core issue is that companies think they can turn this into another data source while making you pay for it.
Precisely due to this, I’m working on a project that does away with the corporate control and allows one to use these products (for now focused on a handful of major brands and DIY solutions using more polished ESP32 based devices from e.g. Waveshare) without the corporate cloud: running either locally on your phone (AI processing somewhat limited), or on a self-hosted cloud with connectors for AI models and services.