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gadget at Spoot: Spotted Early is a file of 3 stories. The newest of them: “Brick Night costs more than double because it knows where you sleep”, “This ePaper frame feeds on sunlight, not hype”, and “Amazon's Bee wearable grows a wallet, and the price tag grows with it”. Brick, the company that made a $59 brick you tap your phone against to stop using apps, just released a bigger, pricier version that knows where you sleep. A solar-powered ePaper frame that doesn't need to be plugged in? 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 gadget story on Spoot: Spotted Early, newest first.
Brick Night costs more than double because it knows where you sleep
Brick, the company that made a $59 brick you tap your phone against to stop using apps, just released a bigger, pricier version that knows where you sleep. The Brick Night costs $129, more than double, and uses Bluetooth to automatically block your selected apps when you walk into your bedroom. No tapping required. It sets a location zone up to 25 feet by 25 feet, runs on two CR2477 batteries, and targets the specific doomscrolling that happens after you've already crawled under the covers. That's a clever pivot from the original's tap-to-block mechanic, and honestly, the price bump makes sense if it actually keeps you off Twitter at 2 a.m. The catch? You still have to set it up and admit you need it.
This ePaper frame feeds on sunlight, not hype
A solar-powered ePaper frame that doesn't need to be plugged in? That's the kind of detail that makes you stop scrolling. This new gadget claims to be the first ePaper display capable of showing art and photos using nothing but sunlight. No cord, no battery anxiety, just the sun doing the work. That's clever. It means you can hang it wherever the light hits, not wherever the outlet is. The frame feeds on sunlight, not hype, which is refreshing in a category usually drowning in glossy promises. It's a Kickstarter project, so we'll be watching to see if it actually ships. If you're the type who circles back for the honest take, you might also enjoy our look at whether the MIRA X laser engraver cuts through its own crowdfunding hype.
Amazon's Bee wearable grows a wallet, and the price tag grows with it
A $50 always-listening AI wearable that summarized every conversation you had was already a lot to swallow. Now Amazon is doubling down: the Bee Frontier arrives at $74.99, and the Bee Eclipse, a credit-card-shaped gadget that snaps onto your phone, will cost $99.99 when it lands. That's a subscription waiting to happen, and sure enough, there's a new one to go with them. The pitch is staying present, which is a funny way to describe a device that records your day so you can review it later. But the Eclipse is clever hardware, and the Frontier is a proper update. The real question is whether anyone actually wants a permanent transcript of their small talk. If you're curious about gadgets that track without watching, Shelly's new radar does exactly that, minus the lens.