Reetle’s smartink I is an iPhone case with an e-ink display that lets users flip their device and read books without screen glare.

  • otacon239@lemmy.worldEnglish
    51·
    2 days ago

    So I looked into it and there’s a few indicators this will either be vaporware or garbage:

    • It’s a Kickstarter with an original funding price of $5000, which is nowhere near enough to fund something this complex
    • AI is being pushed as a major component
    • Video is very high production value in some ways, but very low in others, and before the product is funded
    • No technical explanation of how it’s going to do any of what it claims and no one from the development side is involved in the video. Just a pure commercial.
    • Dozens of news sites I’ve never heard of all repeating the same press release with no real info or interviews

    Just to name a few… My guess is that the OS will suffer from being difficult to navigate and unresponsive from all the garbage they try to cram on it and none of it will be intuitive.

      • otacon239@lemmy.worldEnglish
        10·
        2 days ago

        My inner skeptic sees an app and just knows that they’re collecting everything that goes through it. Not to mention it will probably a brick in a few years. It’s a product that’s a neat engineering accomplishment but I doubt it would actually get much more than a few hours of use on its couple of years of existence before you get your next iPhone that this no longer fits.

        Side thought: this could have been a MagSafe attachment which would have made it compatible with a much wider range of models.