Who speaks more about Alexa now? Soon he will find himself only in some supermarket on sale next to the non -stick pans, but Amazon has not stopped listening to us. Indeed, he has just decided to do it with a bracelet: it’s called Bee and is a smartband who records everything you say, always, everywhere, until you remember to deactivate it (i.e. never, otherwise you start it). The news comes not from a press release, rather from a post on LinkedIn and wrote it Maria de Lourdes Zollo, founder of Bee, and Amazon confirmed it: the bracelet costs only 49.99 dollars (plus 19 dollars a month to hear you say that you have forgotten the shopping list), has the size of a fitbit and the ambition to become a ghost phone, a black mirror of your smartphone that listens to you, you listen to you, you listen to you. He speaks, he knows you and maybe one day he denounces you as well.
The app also exists for Apple Watch, for those who need a second device that does exactly the same thing with a more elegant icon (I Apple Watch all life, it’s not a #Adv). However be Bee is not the only gadget to have tried it. The PIN Humane (it cost ten times a lot and lasted less than an hour in office), returned from the tomb in the form of an open source project: a kind of electronic Frankenstein that nobody wanted and now everyone can reconstruct, free. Bee instead focuses everything on “environmental intelligence”, the one that helps you without getting noticed. That’s right: records you secretly (for our good). Jeff, or rather Amazon, never buy by chance: he has already made it known that the Bee team will be absorbed, as always happens when something too small is touched by something too large.
It is not clear if the project will remain the same or if it will be just a new ear for Alexa. There are those who say that Openai is preparing their hardware, Meta sp’s glasses, Apple dreams Smart Glasses Ai and Google Boh, is always there. In short, the only certainty is that everyone listens to us, in the name of productivity, memory, your freedom. Obviously the usual privacy controversies start: Bee promises that audio will not be used to train models Ai (believe it). In any case, let’s face it (or at least I say it): are we really sure that all this paranoia on privacy serves? Do you really think that Amazon wants to listen to you, while you fight with your mother or forget you for the third time to buy baking soda? We are in democracy, not in a dysTopia as a novel YA.
Nobody spies on you, at most they loom you to trim an offer on orthopedic slippers. And if you really don’t want to be listened to, turn off the bracelet, close the Apple Watch, or rather: don’t say anything.
Even if then what life is it without being able to be carded while we say idiots? The truth is that we like to be listened to. We like it so much that we pay to be. Other than violated privacy: it is a consensual, subscribed, monthly, smart privacy.