--- title: Why Stream ring-maker Sandbar says the future of AI... description: Sandbar CEO Mina Fahmi joins TechCrunch's Equity podcast to discuss Stream, the company's private voice-note-taking ring, and why he believes voice will be the... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/why-stream-ring-maker-sandbar-says-the-future-of-ai-wearables-is-voice-3jwylrgo7 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Why Stream ring-maker Sandbar says the future of AI wearables is voice | daily.dev og:description: Sandbar CEO Mina Fahmi joins TechCrunch's Equity podcast to discuss Stream, the company's private voice-note-taking ring, and why he believes voice will be the... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/why-stream-ring-maker-sandbar-says-the-future-of-ai-wearables-is-voice-3jwylrgo7 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/3JWyLRGo7.png og:image:alt: Why Stream ring-maker Sandbar says the future of AI wearables is voice og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Why Stream ring-maker Sandbar says the future of AI wearables is voice **[TechCrunch](https://daily.dev/sources/tc)** · 1 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Sandbar CEO Mina Fahmi joins TechCrunch's Equity podcast to discuss Stream, the company's private voice-note-taking ring, and why he believes voice will be the winning interface for AI wearables. Sandbar has raised $36 million total, including a $23 million Series A led by Adjacent and Kindred Ventures. Fahmi shares his views on why earlier voice hardware devices failed to gain traction and argues that keeping humans firmly in control is key to getting wearable AI right. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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