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25 Months of Waiting, 12 Hours of Work

DEV Community·Nic Lydon·29 days ago
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For two years, the ring whispered to me. Not literally. But every few weeks, an email would arrive. A Kickstarter update. A shipping delay. A manufacturing setback. A promise that it was almost ready. Each one a small reminder that somewhere in South Korea, a team was trying to fit a microphone, a Bluetooth radio, and an IMA ADPCM audio codec into a titanium band that fits on your finger. This is the story of the WIZPR Ring: how I found it, how I waited for it, and how I reverse-engineered its entire undocumented BLE protocol the night it arrived. The Whisper In February 2024, I put down a $5 deposit on a pre-launch page for something called the WHSP Ring. A voice-interaction wearable. Press a button on your finger, whisper a command, and an AI assistant on your phone processes it. The form factor was the thing that caught me. Not another watch, not another earbud. A ring. A month later, they renamed it. "WHSP RING is becoming WIZPR RING," the email said. The Kickstarter launched March 20th.…

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