By Danny Fortson, West Coast Correspondent
Publication Date: 2025-12-27 12:20:00
TTo the untrained eye it looks like a chunky ring. Mina Fahmi, founder of the New York start-up Sandbar, calls it something different. “It’s an extension of the self,” he said.
Fahmi’s company recently introduced a device called Stream, an AI note-taking ring that, when an almost imperceptible button is pressed, records what you say, even whisper, and does what you ask: “put this date on the calendar,” “remind me to write this email.” When paired with earbuds, it even responds with a version of your own voice, which the company calls your “inner voice.” Fahmi added: “I’m really excited to integrate this into life in a way that doesn’t feel like technology.”
That’s the old saying in Silicon Valley “Hardware is hard.” After a tumultuous 2025, when the AI boom spawned trillion-dollar investment plans, stoked fears of a jobs apocalypse and upended the stock market, 2026 may be shaping up to be even more consequential.
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