In the last few years, people have been pointing out an emergent benefit of ink on dead tree books: there are no banner ads, no tracking cookies, no social media integration, no gamification, no information about your reading habits sent to Google's data mines. When you buy a physical book, you own it, and nothing you do with it can be tracked, monetized, advertised, or subscriptionized.

And I bet some tech bro heard that and said "Hold my beer".

This "ai bookmark" has somehow taken the throne for the stupidest ai device - and that's a crowded room of challengers

Can I just have the bookmark read everything for me? I’ll just melt into a puddle of lazy stupid.

AI is infiltrating consumer hardware, no matter where you might look. From the Humane AI Pin (whose parent company was sold to HP last week for $116 million) to news of AI models disrupting stock markets, it's hard to disconnect from just how ubiquitous AI has become.

What the fuck kind of statement is this? The Humane AI Pin was a disastrous failure. Maybe a hundred people actually bought one. And that's the absolute best example the writer can come up with for how AI is supposedly "infiltrating consumer hardware"? And then they can't even come up with a second example so they just throw up their hands and say "or, y'know, like the stock market." Yes, the stock market, famously a piece of consumer hardware.

I can read just fine, thank you

Imagine this: You pick up the book with the bookmark in place and due to its top-heavy design it slips out of the book and shatters on the ground. Now your 129-$-bookmark is damaged beyond repair and you don't know where to pick up reading!

Finally, someone has thought up a product more stupid and overpriced for what it is than juicero

Love this. I don't want to read books. I want to have read books. I heard that if you read a certain amount of books that when you die you get an achievement.

Been saying for years I wish I could spend less time lost in a good book and more time making my boss rich.

You literally have to tell it what page you're on and what book you're reading. Then it sends it to the phone you already have.

What the fuck is the bookmark for?

I will buy million of those. Please make it fast before I change my mind.

Better link: https://www.tomshardware.com/peripherals/ai-powered-bookmark-wants-to-revolutionize-the-way-you-read-usd129-mark-1-offers-ai-generated-summaries

If it turns books into audio books without hallucinations that change the words, it's great

I've got the perfect name for such a product. When someone is an idiotic loser I call them a "Shit-gibbon".

This? "Shit-ribbon".