The way we work on a computer hasn’t really changed for decades—keyboard and mouse (or a trackpad). Apoorv Shankar wants to change that. He founded Project Mirage to modernize our workflows with new input mechanisms that augment the current experience. Shankar was formerly the vice president of hardware at Ultrahuman, the smart ring company.
At CES, Shankar’s company showed off three concept devices that may end up as real products, though Shankar couldn’t provide a timeline. The first is Dune, a simple three-button device that pairs with your Mac or Windows laptop via Bluetooth, and it’s all about shortcuts. It’s context-aware, meaning it’ll learn frequent shortcuts you make on apps and websites and will suggest them for each of the three buttons. (Naturally, you can set them to do specific things too.) It’s battery-powered, so you can place it anywhere. (You can also plug it into your laptop to recharge it, like in the picture above.) These shortcuts can be as simple as copying to running multi-step actions.
Next is Shift, a nifty little device that works with iOS. If you repeatedly do a specific task every day, you can set up the Shift to automatically run it when you press the button. Say you take the same Uber ride to work, DoorDash a specific food item for lunch, or Instacart the same groceries every week—you can set up the Shift to run all of those tasks at the push of a button, kind of like the old Amazon Dash Button. It works with OpenAI’s LLM to run the action, but only a handful of apps are supported at the moment.
Finally, and the most exciting, is Radiance. This is a meeting controller, so you have your standard Camera and Mic buttons to turn those peripherals on or off during meetings, not to mention a volume knob. There’s a built-in microphone that should make you sound better than average laptop mics. Where it stands out is the Join button. After you connect your calendar and email to the connected app, if you tap Join within a 15-minute customizable window before your meeting, Radiance will automatically open it for you. It searches your email and calendar for upcoming meetings and video call links, even if they’re not specifically set as a calendar event.
There’s also an AI Note function that will start transcribing the meeting to create a summary at the end, and a Voice Modulation button that uses Eleven Labs’ AI technology to emulate your voice and make it sound more cheery. That way, if you wake up groggy for a 9 a.m. meeting and your voice is croaky, the Radiance can make you sound like you’re ready for anything. Yeah, stick it to the man!
Again, these products are all in their early stages, and some of them may not even make the cut. But Project Mirage sure has a unique aesthetic, and it’s bringing something fresh to the desk in the home office space.
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