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AI notetaking hardware has taken off<\/a>\u00a0over\u00a0the past\u00a0couple of years, with credit-card-sized devices, pendants, pins,\u00a0and\u00a0even transcribing earbuds all promising to capture your meetings and turn them into summaries and action items. Now, a whole wave of wearables \u2014 rings especially \u2014 are betting people want to capture stray thoughts and ideas the same way.\u00a0<\/p>\n One of the companies chasing that bet is\u00a0Sandbar<\/a>, the startup behind the private voice ring Stream, which has raised $36 million to date, including a\u00a0$23 million Series A<\/a>\u00a0led by Adjacent and Kindred Ventures.\u00a0<\/p>\n On this episode of TechCrunch\u2019s\u00a0Equity<\/a>\u00a0podcast, Rebecca Bellan talks with Sandbar co-founder and CEO\u00a0Mina Fahmi<\/a>\u00a0about why he thinks so many voice hardware devices before Stream struggled to break through, and why he\u2019s betting that keeping the human firmly in control is what it\u2019ll take to get wearable tech right.\u00a0<\/p>\n Subscribe to Equity on YouTube<\/a>, Apple Podcasts<\/a>, Overcast<\/a>, Spotify<\/a> and all the casts. You also can follow Equity on X<\/a> and Threads<\/a>, at @EquityPod.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n