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[–] TimeNaan@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

They're so fucking desperate to find any use of this technology...

[–] Hadriscus@jlai.lu 2 points 11 hours ago

I wonder what goes through these designers' minds

[–] MrOtingocni@lemmy.world 10 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (1 children)

Oh great, now we're all going to have to buy voice modulators that interject some kind of patterned noise that scrambles audio recording. Just like those masks that interfere with video.

The privacy arms race has begun.

In a decade we'll all be wearing privacy helmets.

Wait, that sounds kind of cool actually.

[–] Dnb@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 19 hours ago

Daft punk was ahead of their time

[–] gnufuu@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 day ago

"I have nothing to hide, not even the private conversation happening next to me"

[–] switcheroo@lemmy.world 25 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I don't need recaps; I was literally there.

[–] Tikiporch@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

You will once you've got permanent brain fog from super Covid.

[–] dylanTheDeveloper@lemmy.world 1 points 18 hours ago

Its gonna keep a scoreboard of how much you crank your hog

[–] NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Who is dumb enough to think they want or need this? We’re all aware that this is just more data collection, right?

[–] Shanmugha@lemmy.world 2 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

/google anything like how to partition a drive in Linux/

/bunch of minutes-long videos appear/

nah. we will cry when when see how many humans think this is cool

[–] smeenz@lemmy.nz 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

You would be surprised. Perhaps astonished. Certainly dismayed.

[–] Zerush@lemmy.ml 54 points 1 day ago
[–] RodgeGrabTheCat@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Its not doing anything with my day. Don't have one, don't want one.

[–] DillDough@lemmy.zip 1 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Do you ever leave your house? If so then yes this does directly affect you, other people wear them and will do so around you.

[–] RodgeGrabTheCat@lemmy.ca 0 points 18 hours ago

3 seconds of conversation with the cashier isn't much of a recap of my day.

[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 39 points 1 day ago

Their Israeli R&D center hard at work

[–] kn0wmad1c@programming.dev 64 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Who wants a recap of their day?

"You woke up at 7:22am!"
"You played stardew valley in bed for 14 hours!"
"You took minor chickie mcnuggie breaks twice today!"

[–] orca@orcas.enjoying.yachts 11 points 1 day ago

Damn, this day sounds awesome.

[–] Waggles@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Are you watching me through a camera rn???

[–] smeenz@lemmy.nz 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] kureta@lemmy.ml 3 points 20 hours ago

All these years we have been watching TV, and now the tables have turned. The TVs are watching us.

[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 day ago
[–] Defectus@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Is this even legal in the eu?

[–] smeenz@lemmy.nz 5 points 1 day ago

It will be with the right bribes

[–] inbn@lemmy.zip 17 points 1 day ago

Coming soon! The iWatch U

[–] FineCoatMummy@sh.itjust.works 77 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Apple seems really focused on preventing the audio from making it off the device.

Which fine, I believe they'll make that very difficult. Apple has engineering chops.

But it's not the fucking point. I ALSO don't want every watchhole around me making transcriptions of anything I say within earshot of whoever wears one. Which will be way less noticeable than even smart glasses. Say goodbye to having an unrecorded conv in most public places.

The whitewashing of the privacy probs with this is galling.

[–] 87Six@lemmy.zip 1 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

Apple seems really focused on preventing the audio from making it off the device.

Huh? That tiny fucker uses AI to process the cocnversations itself?! How?

Isn't that going to drain the battery and heat up the thibg to high hells? I'm assuming it's either that or the output will be crap.

[–] freedickpics@lemmy.ml 26 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Once the technology is implemented and ubiquitous it would only take a secret government mandate and a gag order for the code to be altered to listen for particular words and phrases and log them

[–] Auli@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 day ago

And its all closed source and propretieary. So no one would know.

[–] ramble81@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I was reading up on that and how they plan on processing it in the Secure Enclave part of the watch. My only concern though is as you move more stuff into the enclave, the bigger the attack surface for the entire enclave becomes. And then at what point is more working being done in the enclave than the rest of the watch basically becoming a useless demarcation of security.

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[–] apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world 85 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I don't consent to any iWatch recording me

[–] LemmyFeed@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 1 day ago

You have to forward this to seven people for it to be true.

[–] hanrahan@slrpnk.net 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

is this for people with Alzheimers? do people not remember what they did through the day or need more granuality? took a shit vs took a shit fron 9:05:47 to 9:35:48 vs did i shit today ?

[–] Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk 1 points 19 hours ago
09:05:47: You lifted the lid of the toilet   
09:05:49: You dropped your shorts and underpants   
09:06:04: Your butt cheeks made contact with the toilet seat   
09:06:07: You activated your iPhone   
09:06:09: You opened ShitTok on your iPhone   
09:06:15: You realised that nothing was forthcoming and that there must be a clog in your colon   
09:06:23: You began straining   
09:06:24: You exclaimed: "Arrrrgh, shift you nobbly bastard!"   
09:06:40: Your pulse and blood pressure reached dangerously elevated levels   
09:06:44: The crap clog finally passed your sphincter   
09:06:45: The 'bomb bay doors opened' and a satisfying torrent of last night's now-digested burrito gushed out   
09:06:51: The flow of yesterday's bean, cheese, and pork 'al pastor' eases     
09:06:55: You sighed with relief and reached for the TP     

Who wouldn't want that in their life?

[–] TwinTitans@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago
[–] ramius345@sh.itjust.works 19 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I have the perfect timepiece. It tells the time and that's it. It syncs to atomic time so it's always accurate and charges by solar so it's never dead. It has no transmitter or audio capabilities.

[–] addie@feddit.uk 28 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Hey! Mine not only tells the time, but also the day of the week and month, and has an integrated alarm clock and stopwatch. Battery lasts for seven years, keeps time to within a few minutes per year, is cheap enough so that I don't mind wearing it when I'm cycling as I can just replace it if I break it, and it has a celebrity endorsement. Of sorts, anyway.

[–] Zerush@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

CASIO the Nokias of watches

[–] myyass@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah no kidding. My calculator watch still works to this day. I did have one of those moments where a math teacher said the classic "you won't have a calculator in your pocket" and I though that's right, I have one on my wrist.

[–] Zerush@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

From Casio even in 1984, with TOUCHSCREEN where you could write the numbers to calculate, Casio AT-552 Janus or the TC600 from 1980 with touchscreen keyboard. Way ahead of their time.

https://youtube.com/shorts/FDadKTNjJvw

https://youtube.com/shorts/AGUNtBmh9yw

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[–] northernlights@lemmy.today 35 points 2 days ago (2 children)

... in case you weren't there and missed it? I don't get it. "Today this happened." "Duh"

[–] PattyMcB@lemmy.world 17 points 2 days ago

I don't remember what I had for breakfast, but that just means it's irrelevant information. Fuck all of this constantly-plugged-in slop!

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[–] winkly@lemmy.world 31 points 2 days ago (2 children)

It’s like that black mirror episode where the couple can replay their arguments

"The Entire History of You"

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[–] ShutUpWesley@piefed.zip 20 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Why would anyone want that?

[–] orca@orcas.enjoying.yachts 11 points 1 day ago

No one does. That’s where we’re at in tech now. It’s never anything any consumer wants, but it’s always what the surveillance industry wants. A recap of my day is fucking useless. I was there, for fuck sake!

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[–] PattyMcB@lemmy.world 18 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I don't buy Apple products, so no, they won't, heh

[–] carotte@lemmy.blahaj.zone 42 points 2 days ago (6 children)

…unless, of course, you’re close to a person who wears one of these. then you still get spied on yaaaaayyyyy

and unlike the meta glasses, these look the same as any apple watch, which have already been normalized in society. so shunning people for wearing these won’t work cuz you won’t be able to tell. i love the future this is so COOL

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[–] steelplatedmech@piefed.ca 7 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I just use a Garmin and gadget bridge. I don't bother connecting it to the internet or using it to look at text messages.

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