I mostly tend to agree with Bill here.  A solution in search of a problem. 
Of course, people should be allowed to use whatever works for them, 
however, a company needs to make a profit and so they will need to charge 
for this device.  From my perspective, my IPhone can do anything this ring 
can do, and my IPhone is an off-the-shelf piece of hardware, so will 
undoubtedly be less expensive, and more up-to-date than the ring.

In the article, they even say something about integrating with a smart 
phone.  Why bother?  The smart phone can do anything the ring can do, so 
it would just be redundant.

I realize that I am biased by my own need to avoid adaptive hardware, so 
tend to rely on off-the-shelf technologies a lot more than most, but it 
still just seems pretty redundant to put a camera and speech output into a 
ring, when my phone already has those capabilities.

I'm not saying this isn't an interesting idea, but not one that I would 
personally spend my money on.

  -- 
Blue skies.
Dan Rossi
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