companion app
3 stories filed under companion app on Spoot: Spotted Early. The newest of them: “This Screwdriver Sniffs Out the Right Bit and Lights the Way”, “The HOA A1 Camera Lets You Look at People, Not at a Screen”, and “Ember's fancy hot-drink cup finally gets a price that doesn't sting”. Tiny screws have a knack for making simple repairs feel surprisingly complicated. Taking someone's photograph often means hiding your own face behind a camera or phone. Spoot: Spotted Early New things, caught while they're still new and a little weird. Spoot finds fresh gadgets, clever inventions, crowdfunding campaigns,… The list below is every companion app story on Spoot: Spotted Early, newest first.
This Screwdriver Sniffs Out the Right Bit and Lights the Way
Tiny screws have a knack for making simple repairs feel surprisingly complicated. You sit down to open a laptop, only to discover that choosing the wrong bit strips the head and turns a five-minute job into a quiet crisis. Arrowspace watched that happen one too many times and built the S1 Screwdriver Kit, which scans the screw and lights up the correct bit before you touch it. It is a small, specific kind of intelligence, the sort that belongs inside a tool, not a phone app. The kit comes with a dock that charges the driver and stores the bits, and the whole thing feels like the endgame for people who own more than one tiny Phillips head.
The HOA A1 Camera Lets You Look at People, Not at a Screen
Taking someone's photograph often means hiding your own face behind a camera or phone. That's a rather strange way to capture a shared moment, especially when the whole point is connection. The HOA A1 Camera, from the same Humans of Authenticity brand that Lutra debuted with that see-through camera we covered recently, flips the script entirely. It lets you stay face-to-face with your subject while you shoot. You get to look at people, not at a screen. That's a small mechanical trick with a huge emotional payoff. It makes the act of taking a photo feel less like an interruption and more like an extension of the conversation. We're genuinely curious whether this kind of design can rewire how we behave around cameras.
Ember's fancy hot-drink cup finally gets a price that doesn't sting
Woot just slid an Ember Cup onto the counter for $32.99, and that's not a typo. We've always loved the idea of a mug that holds your drinking temperature hostage, but not the usual $100 ransom. At six ounces, this handle-free cup is built for espresso drinks and people who enjoy refilling their coffee like a ritual rather than a chore. You set your preferred heat between 120 and 145 degrees Fahrenheit through the app, and it holds steady for 95 minutes off the charger, four hours with the lid, or all day on the dock. It's hand-wash only, even with that IPX7 rating. If you're already digging through Woot's Home and Kitchen Sale, the code COOK shaves another $20 off $100 orders, just like the deals hiding in those Lowe's tool sets we covered.