AI notetaking {hardware} has taken off over the previous couple of years, with credit-card-sized gadgets, pendants, pins, and even transcribing earbuds all promising to seize your conferences and switch them into summaries and motion gadgets. Now, a complete wave of wearables — rings particularly — are betting individuals wish to seize stray ideas and concepts the identical method.
One of many firms chasing that wager is Sandbar, the startup behind the personal voice ring Stream, which has raised $36 million thus far, together with a $23 million Sequence A led by Adjoining and Kindred Ventures.
On this episode of TechCrunch’s Fairness podcast, Rebecca Bellan talks with Sandbar co-founder and CEO Mina Fahmi about why he thinks so many voice {hardware} gadgets earlier than Stream struggled to interrupt by, and why he’s betting that conserving the human firmly in management is what it’ll take to get wearable tech proper.
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