Imagine the collective brainpower that could be used to help solve the world's ills, and instead decided, no, what we need is a camera pointed at your asshole which we feed into an AI-powered SaaS we can then sell to you for a subscription. This industry is finished.

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Aeolun 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

It’s pretty impressive that that juicero thing wasn’t the most bizarre thing they could come up with.

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mzhaase 4 hours ago | parent [-]

I watched a teardown of it and the truly bizarre thing was that the build quality was actually amazing. Machined out of a huge block of aluminum, really big bearings, etc.

	▲	kortilla 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		That was part of why it failed though. The over-engineering made it very hard to recover costs

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venturecruelty 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

This is downstream from the notion that companies need to have infinite growth forever. Of course, that's not possible, so this is the end stages of that: wealth trickles up while the, well... you can guess what's trickling down.

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EdwardDiego 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

They claim it only points about your doings, but even then...

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phoronixrly 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Who the hell buys this...