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I bought a guitar, TV went unused, sold it, less gadget worry. Bought more guitars! I’ve dramatically slashed my personal gadget footprint. Phone, watch cause

I bought a guitar, TV went unused, sold it, less gadget worry. Bought more guitars! I’ve dramatically slashed my personal gadget footprint. Phone, watch cause I like the exercise data, a Linux box I barely touch, old iPad for movies and video chat. I pickup the guitar rather than sit at the TV or computer. Learning an instrument connects both sides of the brain like no other skills based activity. No ads, acoustic road trips easy enough, no worry about charging, smart speakers would hear some bad covers of Wonder Wall. It’s a life changing experience. So when the TV breaks, maybe consider replacing it with $500 digital piano to get weighted keys and decent built in sound instead of paying for an ad distribution device.

w0mbat 6y ago
What were you saying? I was busy upgrading the firmware on my guitar amp.
- 6510 6y ago
  Is anyone doing a smart guitar with ads already?
  - adolph 6y ago
    Kinda, its an app that trains people to tune guitars in different scenarios. The ads are mostly for pro versions of itself, its sibling apps and a far field mike array for adjusting tuning based on the room. The killer feature is artificial intelligence that learns how the person perceives sound and adjusts the tuning from "technically correct" to "perceptually correct." It is gamified with a blockchain verified leaderboard.
    - xmprt 6y ago
      I'm not sure if you're joking. This seems like a reasonable feature to have but then you threw in blockchain and now I'm not sure anymore.
      - adolph 6y ago
        Cheating devalues games. Ambiguity heightens absurdity. Maybe I should have added that the IP has rock solid patents, is open source* and the startup is still in stealth while raising a series G. * some restrictions apply, please agree to the terms of service to allow super cookies and review that the license SKU matching your service region to a stacked arbitration regime established in the People's Democratic Republic of Korea and Delaware
toomanyducks 6y ago
Relative counterpoint - I'm an online student, all of my classes require a PC, all of my homework requires a PC. My orchestra requires I listen to and play along with recordings (on a PC). The minimum 'personal gadget footprint' for me and many others is going to be quite high. Above a certain level, IoT is unavoidable.

w0mbat 6y ago

What were you saying? I was busy upgrading the firmware on my guitar amp.

6510 6y ago
Is anyone doing a smart guitar with ads already?
- adolph 6y ago
  Kinda, its an app that trains people to tune guitars in different scenarios. The ads are mostly for pro versions of itself, its sibling apps and a far field mike array for adjusting tuning based on the room. The killer feature is artificial intelligence that learns how the person perceives sound and adjusts the tuning from "technically correct" to "perceptually correct." It is gamified with a blockchain verified leaderboard.
  - xmprt 6y ago
    I'm not sure if you're joking. This seems like a reasonable feature to have but then you threw in blockchain and now I'm not sure anymore.
    - adolph 6y ago
      Cheating devalues games. Ambiguity heightens absurdity. Maybe I should have added that the IP has rock solid patents, is open source* and the startup is still in stealth while raising a series G. * some restrictions apply, please agree to the terms of service to allow super cookies and review that the license SKU matching your service region to a stacked arbitration regime established in the People's Democratic Republic of Korea and Delaware

toomanyducks 6y ago

Relative counterpoint - I'm an online student, all of my classes require a PC, all of my homework requires a PC. My orchestra requires I listen to and play along with recordings (on a PC). The minimum 'personal gadget footprint' for me and many others is going to be quite high. Above a certain level, IoT is unavoidable.