CEO & Co-Founder building @inanimate_tech | Prev. start-ups (@buffalogrid) & scale-ups (@rootstock_io) | AI, hardware, blockchain, NRG!
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Newsletters are awesome. I read a lot of them. @genmon writes a legendary one. Still one of the best ways to build a community. So we’ve started one @inanimate_tech called Lab Notes.
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🧪 Lab Notes is a record of our work as we build and ship Inanimate. It’s an update on what we are working on, plus what influences, informs, and inspires us.
We’re starting off with a classic format. A done list + likes and links.
Come with us, as we build a British Sony for the AI Era!
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What if you could change device behaviour, just by talking to it?
Create an app. Change it. Edit it. Add personal context. Then completely reinvent what the device is for.
WORKS is our limited release of the first ever Promptable Products - physical devices inhabited by AI agents that understand what you want and do what you mean.
WORKS launch in November 2026.
This is a demo (using a ESP32 device from @M5Stack) showing one possible experience you can create.
We’re building @inanimate_tech in public.
Jump in, it's gonna be weird.
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Demo features a little @betaworks shout out (although pronunciation still under review @Borthwick @jonchin @jordanrcrook 😆🫣)
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Four weeks until @inanimate_tech launches WORKS: limited-release promptable products that know what you want and do what you mean.
Production partner on-board. Shop taking shape. New plugins, a custom-trained model, more apps.
Plus:
→ @kiransdm now collaborating
→ Tracking: Personal AI hardware
→ Weird as a brand promise, authentic-retro, dark models
→ A man stuffing his father into a balloon
19 November. Shoreditch. Preview all five WORKS. Subscribe to Lab Notes for an invite.
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This week we're tracking Personal AI Hardware, featuring...
→ @Apple Home View - Room-scale, multi-user UI from Cupertino - a beachhead for more.
→ @amazon Bee - wearable and ambient AI devices for capturing audio context
→ @ghostai - Sovereign inference running local models in the home.
→ @okihomeai - Personal context vault and local model for the home
→ @pamir_ai / Lapis One - Dedicated agent computer for running 24/7 workflows
→ @caligracomputer / @gbissett - New desktop computer + OS for focused, professional use.
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Subscribe to Lab Notes and be first to hear when WORKS go on sale. ↓ news.inanimate.tech/
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Excited about the @inanimate_tech PREVIEW Series. Landing on Instagram from today - instagram.com/reel/Derwh5fI5…
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Join us in the @inanimate_tech lab as WORKS comes together. We shot this yesterday!
WORKS is our limited release of Promptable Products at @inanimate_tech: physical devices inhabited by AI agents that understand what you want and change their behaviour when you ask.
Right now...
• Components arriving from around the world
• Final design details taking shape
• Provisioning and claiming process is nearly complete
• Richer interfaces coming to our screens
• Devices talking to each other and responding almost instantly
This is WORKS in Progress: It's All Coming Together in the Lab
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Subscribe to Lab Notes and be first to hear when WORKS go on sale. ↓ news.inanimate.tech/
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We let an agent express itself IRL through a device with a face. Weird. But we learned a lot.
Meet Face P1, one of our more recent @inanimate_tech prototypes.
Two screens for eyes, another for a mouth, a mic array, and a nose printed on the circuit board.
@genmon asked it to scroll truisms across its mouth. It started “talking” to us, and those words became surprisingly interesting to reflect on.
“Every system protects itself first.”
Like: What do you mean? And why are you saying this now?!
It’s teaching us about how people want to relate to agents and whether those are relationships we want our products to encourage, or whether we think they are problematic.
This is Prototyping: "Why We Made an AI Device with Eyes and a Mouth."
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Subscribe to be first to know when waitlist opens for WORKS, our limited edition, fast-to-market AI devices.
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Boom! Another team taking on the calcified home computer market. Big wave building.
Say hello to Oki Home, your Personal AI Computer.
We're building a future of limitless, personalized intelligence for every consumer, while keeping all your data in your hands.
Reserve our first batch, shipping mid-december! okihome.ai
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Our first AI devices ship in weeks. Five WORKS named. Arc upgrades from Tetris to Mario. Global firmware updates now live.
Plus:
→ @_lyraaaa_ Fruit fly brains playing Beat Saber
→ @typesafeai Jev’s sub-150ms decision models
→ @Musecases brings agents into hardware
Lab Notes from @inanimate_tech, written by me + @gemon.
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