The touchscreen MacBook Apple said it wouldn't make

All right, before we go, I have one more thing for you.

So all the way back in December of 2025, almost a year ago now, Pebble, the rebirthed Pebble making smartwatches and other stuff, announced this thing called the Index-01, which is basically a smart ring with a button on it.

And the first time Eric Michakowski, the creator of Pebble, showed it to me was at CES the year before.

And he showed me this thing that basically he used as a voice recorder.

You hold it up to your mouth, you press a button, you talk, and it transcribes it onto your phone.

And his was saving it into like a notes app.

As a just dyed in the wool productivity app nerd slash psychopath, I wanted this thing immediately.

I pre-ordered one the minute that I could.

I think they're $75.

And then for months, months and months and months and months and months, I sat around waiting for my index to show up.

It finally did this week while I was in Tennessee.

There was a package sitting on my door for like three days and it was it was the index.

And it's this very simple little black ring with a button.

I'm pretty on record as thinking smart rings are a really good idea.

I think in an AI first world, if you believe that AI is going to be the way that we mediate everything, having an input system that is really fast and really simple works.

becomes really important, right? You just need to be able to get ideas out of your head.

You need to be able to record information as it comes.

You need to be able to just dump stuff into a system as quickly as possible in order for AI to be able to work with that system.

I think a lot of the devices that are coming out to do this kind of thing are intrusive and gross and bad.

Like what Bee is doing at Amazon, where it's just this constantly recording wearable that is always on and always listening and giving you actionable insights about your day to day life.

I hate that stuff.

I am uninterested in having that as part of my life.

But the idea of the index, which is very personal, it's only designed to record a really small amount of space around it, is that you hold it up to your mouth and you press the button.

It's not recording ever unless you press the button and you press the button and you talk and then it sends it to your phone, it transcribes it and it does whatever you want with it.

I think is the right way to think about this stuff.