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⚙️ A Toilet Camera

Plus: A Robotic Phone, The AI Recall Pin

Good Morning, The Hardwirers!

Today’s hardware isn’t just watching what you do; it’s watching what comes out of you, how you move, and what you forget.

HEALTHCARE

A Toilet Camera With Big Health Ambitions

👀 What is it: Kohler Dekoda is a toilet-rim camera that analyzes urine and stool through optical sensors and machine-learning models. It promises hydration insights, gut-health trends, and early detection flags, essentially turning the bathroom into a lightweight diagnostic station for anyone comfortable with a camera pointed at the bowl.

🧪 Reality Check: Dekoda’s engineering advantage is its controlled capture system. By fixing a sensor inside a shifting, low-light, water-splashed environment and pairing it with authentication and encryption, Kohler built a system that can capture repeatable biological data with minimal user effort. If its hydration and stool-pattern analysis prove reliable across different households, it could complement—not replace—traditional trackers and give early-stage health monitoring a more passive, everyday anchor.

⚙️ Our take: Dekoda is ambitious and occasionally insightful. Right now it reads as a niche tool with real promise and real costs.

PHONE

Honor’s Phone Grows a Robotic Eye

👀 What is it: The Honor Robot Phone is a concept smartphone with an AI-driven, fold-out gimbal camera that can tilt, swivel, and track like a miniature DJI Osmo fused to its back. The company calls it a “robotic companion” that can see, react, and even express curiosity, a pitch that pushes the phone from simple imaging tool toward animated device.

🧪 Reality Check: The underlying tech isn’t experimental anymore. Gimbal stabilization, subject tracking, and AI-assisted framing have been perfected by DJI, Insta360, and a dozen wearable “companion” devices. Honor’s real play is behavioral, not mechanical: to test whether mainstream users will tolerate a phone that moves and “looks back.” Labeling it a concept gives the company cover to gauge curiosity, normalize the idea, and quietly prepare the market for a future flagship that blinks.

⚙️ Our take: Technically ready, socially unproven. Honor’s concept is less invention than inoculation.

WEARABLE

Bee: The Wearable That Won’t Forget You

👀 What is it: Bee is an AI wearable that acts as a memory prosthesis rather than a gadget. You clip it on, and it constantly listens, processing speech in real time, transcribing it into text, and fusing that with data from your phone, calendar, photos, and location. No audio is stored, only text. The system then runs a large-language model over your day to generate summaries, to-do items, and even a nightly “AI diary” that reads like a personalized recap of your life.

🧪 Reality Check: Bee’s architecture blends continuous speech capture with contextual retrieval. Every fragment of conversation becomes a data node the model can query, an impressive technical feat for something this cheap. The review shows it excels at summarizing structured events like meetings, but without local processing or speaker detection, it often invents context, confusing strangers’ words or media audio as yours. Its cloud-based inference pipeline also raises obvious privacy and consent risks that its encryption claims can’t fully calm.

⚙️ Our take: Ingenious in design, intrusive in practice. Bee shows how close we are to wearable recall and how far we are from trusting it.

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