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Hold on this might not be as bad as it sounds. How many sold? Like 5?
Did they really sold any? I’d think they all went to tech reviewers and influencers
I think anyone paying for this must have been mentally challenged.
I’m guessing that, unlike the Spotify Car Thing, there’s no conceivably useful application a jailbroken one of these could be repurposed for.
That hand projector might be fun for cosplay shit. Give Adam Savage box of old ones for his shop.
As long as you’re cosplaying indoors or at night. The thing isn’t bright enough for daylight.
There are definitely things the Spotify Car Thing could’ve done.
It’s a potato, sure, but there are still uses. Displaying some PC information, weather information, using it as a macro-pad (someone actually did that one)… or doing the thing it was designed to do: show some album art and the song you’re playing, and giving play/pause, skip buttons.
Shit, even a desk clock would be better than nothing.
E: ah, I see you said unlike, not like. Never mind.
People have jailbroken the Car Thing and are using them to control home automation/media playback and display information.
Yeah, so they have some use
I would wager that turning it into a clock that uses text to speech to tell the time when you tap the touchpad and the laser projector to see it visually, would be the only solution where it doesn’t overheat instantly.
I think it relies on the server backend, which they’re closing down, to do pretty much anything including TTS
Yeah, their “innovative AI operating system architecture” doesn’t seem very innovative now.
True. The yield is too small for it to be useful as a bomb.
I guarantee this was their goal all along. Build up something to have a larger entity come through and buy the company. Wish I had thought of it but I’m not a fan of screwing over the user base.
So essentially the same business plan as 95% of all tech startups of the past quarter-century.
They wanted 1 BILLION, and they got $230 Million
Roughly 230 million more than I made in the same timeframe
They probably lost a ton of money developing it. I bet nobody got overly rich with this endeavor.
You made a dollar this last year?
Rounded to the closest million that actually checks out…
A dollar, a hundred thousand dollars, these are just rounding errors compared to $250 million.
Insane they got even that.
Released in April 2024; killed in February 2025.
I guess the buyer qualifies for a refund, I wonder if they would even want the device back
