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It’s not much more than a toy, but it looks fun. I’m almost curious enough to get one. Almost. $400 is steep for curiosity about a toy.
Microduck is a 25 cm biped robot with 15 motors, a camera, LiDAR and a grasping beak. Playable out of the box, and its open-source stack lets you train new behaviours in simulation and run them on the robot. Pre-order at $399.
Designed with Work Louder, the kbd-1.0-codex-micro brings your agent workspace into reach. Keep active chats close, spot what every agent is doing through live RGB feedback, and map your most-used Codex actions to tactile controls built for the way you actually ship.
$230 sounds steep until you count how many hours a day some of us now spend talking to Codex instead of typing into an editor. People buy dedicated hardware for the tools they use constantly, and this one’s built specifically for a habit that’s still forming. I think it sells better than the price tag suggests it should.
Designed with Work Louder, the kbd-1.0-codex-micro brings your agent workspace into reach. Keep active chats close, spot what every agent is doing through live RGB feedback, and map your most-used Codex actions to tactile controls built for the way you actually ship.
New interfaces show up before the products that need them. The mouse came before the Mac. The click wheel came before the iPod. Multitouch came before the iPhone.
OpenAI shipped GPT-Live last week, a voice model that listens and talks at the same time instead of taking turns. Every voice assistant before this has felt like a walkie-talkie: you talk, then you wait, then it talks back. This one doesn’t. It’s more natural, like how humans actually speak. Typing on a screen never needed that fix. A device with no screen does, and OpenAI bought Jony Ive’s hardware studio, io, last year without saying much beyond “a device”.
Full-duplex voice feels like the next big interface unlock. Whatever io ships will be the first product built for it.
A dedicated macro pad for Codex is an unexpected move, and I’m intrigued. Partnering with Work Louder, who actually make these things, tells me OpenAI is thinking about the whole workspace. Curious to see what they show on the 15th.
"Your favorite Codex shortcuts are getting an upgrade. July 15th." — teased over a video of a glowing, illuminated key grid.
Google’s Nest acquisition has very little to do with selling thermostats and smoke detectors in particular. Instead, it’s about Google having the ability to do consumer hardware right, in general.
Google’s Nest acquisition has very little to do with selling thermostats and smoke detectors in particular. Instead, it’s about Google having the ability to do consumer hardware right, in general.