AirPods

Always-on AirPods walkie-talkie for your inner circle

Shaan and Furqan riff on an AirPods app that creates an always-on, opt-in audio channel to a few close people. You speak a wake word and the other person hears you instantly, capturing a fleeting idea without picking up a phone or typing.

“So let's say I have my AirPods in, you have yours in, and I'm walking around, I'm at lunch, I have this idea for the podcast. I basically just say, yo, Sam, what we should do is we should do this. And then you basically receive But you're not sending back, um, unless you say whatever the keyword, like the, you know, like how Alexa works, right? Like it's like Sean or whatever it is. And that's way more lightweight than me picking up my phone and starting to type or phone call. Like who wants to do that? Right.”

Steal thisWhen new hardware ships (AirPods), ask what lightweight always-on software it now makes possible.