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wearable at Spoot: Spotted Early is a file of 2 stories. The newest of them: “Amazon's Bee wearable grows a wallet, and the price tag grows with it” and “This walkie-talkie uses LTE so you can yell at your friends from anywhere”. A $50 always-listening AI wearable that summarized every conversation you had was already a lot to swallow. The walkie-talkie is not dead. 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 wearable story on Spoot: Spotted Early, newest first.
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.
This walkie-talkie uses LTE so you can yell at your friends from anywhere
The walkie-talkie is not dead. Long live the walkie-talkie that uses LTE to scream at your friends from across the state. This upcoming hybrid radio doesn't care about line-of-sight or that ridge you're about to hike over. It just needs a cellular signal, and suddenly your group chat is voice-activated and clipped to your backpack strap. That's the razor clam here: nearly unlimited range, which changes the game for anyone who has ever watched a buddy disappear around a bend and wondered if they fell into a ravine or just found a better trail. It's on Kickstarter, so the usual caveats apply, will it ship, will it work as promised, but the idea is genuinely good. If you like digging into clever outdoor tools, you might also enjoy how the Blackjaw rethinks the multitool entirely.