Emerging Interfaces
This Desk Pet Gets Sick When You Doomscroll, and It Doesn't Message Your Phone to Tell You
Developer brenpoly's PolyMO is a physical virtual pet — an ESP32-S3 board with a 368×448 AMOLED face — that gets sick and eventually dies if you spend too long on your phone, tracked over Bluetooth with no cloud dependency at all. On-device language models (llama.cpp, Whisper, Piper) let it talk back and read notifications aloud instead of showing them to you.