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After Bringing Pebble Watches Back, the Next Thing's a Ring
Pebble's Index 01 smart ring offers up to two years of use with 10-20 daily voice notes and syncs encrypted audio to a phone app without cloud dependency.
- Core Devices started Index 01 preorders today at $75, rising to $99 after shipments begin in March 2026.
- Pebble founder Eric Migicovsky built the Index 01 as a simple capture tool, calling it an "external memory" while Core Devices has shipped new watches and logged over 25,000 preorders.
- Pressing and holding the ring's button records audio, streaming encrypted clips to the Pebble app where an on-device LLM processes speech-to-text; the hearing-aid battery lasts 12–14 hours and supports a recycling program.
- Positioning itself against subscription-heavy rivals, Pebble emphasizes local processing and no subscription, with the Index 01 focusing solely on voice notes unlike Sandbar's Stream Ring.
- Programmable single and double presses let the Index 01 smart ring send recordings to custom apps or servers, while Pebble's open-source code and planned integrations with ChatGPT and the Model Context Protocol invite developers and hobbyists to expand features.
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View: A new $75 AI ring finally gets hardware right
Reed’s viewA lot of the silly AI hardware products that have launched and failed tried to do too much. Finally, someone has built a product that breaks new ground on the concept of simplicity. I haven’t tried the Pebble Index, a ring that can record audio snippets, but I want to. It costs $75 to preorder and $99 once it’s officially out, and you never have to charge it. When the battery runs out after “years,” you send it back to the company. Th…
·New York, United States
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This ring remembers everything so your brain doesn't have to – and doesn't need charging
Discover Index 01, an innovative AI smart ring from Pebble's founder that discreetly records voice notes, transcribes them, and sets reminders with a unique two-year battery.
·Melbourne, Australia
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