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Prego Pivots From Budget-Tier Pasta Sauce to Small Microphones That Listen to Your Family's Intimate Conversations (futurism.com)
submitted 6 months ago by to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world
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[–] 6 points 6 months ago (1 child)

Misleading headline. Apparently, it's 100% offline, and if you wanna share your awkward dinner table small talk with the culture archivists at StoryCorps, you can by physically plugging it in and manually uploading it.

This is still weird. But it's a little more wholesome than what I expected.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago

    Yeah, though I would say that I don't follow their line of thought in how it will result in more connected families less distracted by devices during dinner. It neither prevents anyone from using a device along with it nor gives any reason to connect more.

    If anything, I could see this making some people want to perform during dinner if they intend to upload the recording for social media likes. Which I guess could increase connection, but I would have hated dinner if my parents had wanted to do this when I was a kid.

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