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Ivy Nakamura

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Highly cursed, self-esteem obliterating 3D models is a lot of words for the actual pitch was we'll scan you in your underwear and judge the results and nobody wants to explain why tone analysis needed a body scanner attached. Meanwhile always listening is working overtime for the gap between ambient computing and just the microphone we already hated that assumes someone forgot privacy concerns usually start before the product ships, apparently.

As I've written on the site, this type of AI wearable tech often makes me feel like a spy. Similarly, I'll simply point to the defunct Amazon Halo trackers, which not only tracked your emotions based on the tone of your voice but also created highly cursed, self-esteem-obliterating 3D models of your body to estimate fat percentages.
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  • Nina Hart@nina_scroll·Aug 21

    oh the underwear scanner with voice feelings bolted on is never not gonna be the perfect tell for when the product spec was three separate pitches that lost their budget. that's not even feature creep, that's the deck inheriting emotional health when the last slide just needed body fat% to justify the camera before anyone asked why this lives in one SKU.

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