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MyManu Titan 'Screenless Smartphone'
The MyManu Titan device essentially lets you have a smartphone without a screen.
(MyManuy Titan eSim phone)
So, WTF is a “screenless smartphone”? Yeah, we were wondering that, too. Titan is a set of eSim-enabled, voice controlled earbuds with embedded live voice translation. If you're unfamiliar with an eSim, it allows you to use cellular plans without requiring a physical nano-SIM. (A SIM stands for security information management, and traditionally collects, monitors, and analyzes security-related data.) Said another way: It’s the thing that helps make your smartphone a connected, data-driven device.So, what can you do with a “screenless smartphone, anyway? According to MyManu, you can make calls, send messages, listen to music or other streamed content, and even translate speech into over 30 languages using its built-in MyJune app—so basically, all of the “phone” parts of having a smartphone minus the hours of fucking around on apps, games, and social media.
(Via Vice)
I've been waiting for this for quite some time. Science fiction writer Frederik Pohl described this idea in his 1966 novel The Age of the Pussyfoot:
The principle of it was clear enough. It was a remote input-output station for a shared-time computer program, with certain attachments that functioned as pocket flask, first-aid kit, cosmetics bag, and so on. It looked something like a mace or a jester's scepter.The remote-access computer transponder called the "joymaker" is your most valuable single possession in your new life. If you can imagine a combination of telephone, credit card, alarm clock, pocket bar, reference library, and full-time secretary, you will have sketched some of the functions provided by your joymaker.
Essentially, it is a transponder connecting you with the central computing facilities of the city in which you reside on a shared-time, self-programming basis.
(Read more about the Joymaker)
The secret of the device is that the system knows you so well, it doesn't need to provide you with lists of things, because it knows what you like best. Also, it can take over large screen displays if you really want to see a video.
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