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wrist strap at Spoot: Spotted Early is a file of 3 stories. The newest of them: “MIXO's detachable face lets your AI buddy follow you out the door”, “DA1 camera hands out prints but refuses to show you a screen”, and “Leica marries motorsport carbon fiber to a Q3 you'll want to touch”. MIXO's detachable face means your AI buddy can follow you out the door, which is either adorable or slightly unsettling depending on how you feel about screens staring at you from across the room. 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 wrist strap story on Spoot: Spotted Early, newest first.
MIXO's detachable face lets your AI buddy follow you out the door
MIXO's detachable face means your AI buddy can follow you out the door, which is either adorable or slightly unsettling depending on how you feel about screens staring at you from across the room. The concept gives a digital companion a round, expressive face that pops off its base and goes wherever you go, desk, kitchen, coffee shop, probably the bathroom if you're that attached. It's early, it's a concept, and I'm already wondering how long before the battery gives up mid-conversation. But the thinking is sharp: an AI that doesn't abandon you when you stand up. That's the razor clam here. If you liked wondering whether the DA1 camera really needs a screen, MIXO asks a similar question in reverse, how much face does an AI actually need?
DA1 camera hands out prints but refuses to show you a screen
The DA1 camera prints photos to give away. That's it. No screen. No app. No way to see what you just captured before a tiny thermal roll spits it out into someone else's hands. I take a lot of pictures, and this thing fundamentally rewires why. You frame, you press, you hand over a physical object and walk away. The person receiving it gets the only copy. That's a kind of trust, or maybe surrender, that most cameras never ask for. It's a close cousin to the deliberate uncertainty of Kenko's pieni III, which also abandons the preview, but where that one leaves you guessing for yourself, the DA1 hands the guess to a stranger.
Leica marries motorsport carbon fiber to a Q3 you'll want to touch
Leica has bolted a piece of Formula 1 chassis onto a Q3, and the result looks like it could survive a pit-lane collision. The special-edition camera swaps the usual leather for motorsport-grade carbon fiber, the kind that shaves grams off a race car and apparently looks just as good wrapped around a lens mount. It's a deliberate, tactile object, you want to run a finger along that weave. Leica and F1 have combined their expertise here, and the racing DNA is unmistakable. But what does it actually do that a standard Q3 doesn't? It takes the same pictures, probably. The appeal is in the feel, the story, the fact that it exists at all. It's a collector's piece, and Leica knows exactly who will pay for it.