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AI Pin by Humane AI

one of the world's first ai wearables

Yes, we're taking the contrarian position — as our dad Peter would say — and recommending Humane's AI Pin. The fact is, there are still just a relative few AI-based hardware devices, Humane's wearable is one of them, and haters can hate all they want (idc) but the Pin is cool.

Essentially a wearable iPhone that's missing some important features, but including several features the iPhone doesn't have, Humane's AI pin is a voice and hand-gesture-controlled AI assistant. Among its flashier elements, the Pin can recognize food and give you its nutritional value, translate a conversation with someone who doesn't speak English, and uses a projection onto your hand as its display. It's "basic" elements include calling, texting, photos, and music — all voice and hand gesture controlled — with some smart tweaks and filtering functionality. For a full run-through of the device, watch Humane's 10-minute demo.

Humane's AI Pin starts at $699. On top of the cost of the device, using it requires a subscription for data, cellular, and wireless, currently $24/month plus taxes and fees. You can order one now and it will be shipped by early next year. Alternatively, you can buy a gift certificate for any amount between $25 and $800 here.

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Bryan Johnson's Premium Extra Virgin Olive Oil

it could help you not die

Radical life extension man Bryan Longevity has three tablespoons of extra virgin olive oil daily, and claims that 10 mL of it after a meal "helps maintain healthy blood sugar levels, supports healthy levels of cholesterol, and helps promote a healthy inflammatory response." No man alive, and perhaps in all of human history, appears to have been so focused on his health as Bryan, so I would be inclined to trust him on the olive oil nutrition tip. Besides his project is really cool and he just seems like a kind and honestly beautiful (?) human being that someone in your life might be happy to find is supported through your purchase.

Olive oil is currently the only thing you can actually buy from Bryan, though a Blueprint Starter Kit is coming soon. You can get two bottles for $60 and free shipping, and they currently appear to be on backorder, but are expected to ship within two to three weeks. Order it here.

Alternately (or additionally), you can download his recipe guide for free and print it out as a gift — just a thought.

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E/acc merch

now that's what we call e/comm

Beff Jezos recently set up a merch store for effective acceleration, a movement that at minimum believes humanity should continue to exist, not in a perpetual state of austerity as is implied by all brands of doomerism, but perpetually increasing its per capital energy usage through a hands-on embrace of the double-edged sword of technology. If your giftee is a fellow White Pill subscriber, e/acc is a message they can get behind.

And the merch is cool! Hoodies, sweatshirts, stickers, hats, mugs, flags... Shop it here.

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Sol reader

distraction-free immersive reading

Very roughly, Sol is Kindle inside brightness-adjustable glasses that mimic the experience of reading text on paper a comfortable distance away from your eyes. But unlike the Kindle, Sol creates a totally immersive, distraction free reading experience, as you literally are just unable to see anything but the page. Your Sol 'library' is its app, where you manage what you'll read; it can include not only books, but any articles and newsletters you want to read, too. The user 'page flips' with a small bluetooth remote.

If it's not obvious at this point, if you have someone borderline weird about reading in your life, maybe check Sol out. A pair goes for $350 — preorder here.

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District Street by LAND Energy

cyberpunk electric streetbike

Depending on which battery you choose, you can get up to 120 miles of range with this electric bike, and cruise faster than 70 MPH. Designed and manufactured in the same Cleveland warehouse 🇺🇸, the Street is gridlock-immune and designed for urban exploration, zig zagging, cutting lines of traffic, and accelerating scary fast. And if you'd rather get rugged, check out LAND's District Scrambler, suitable for wilder environments.

Pricing on Street goes up with battery size (thus range and speed), and a fully-decked out one of these vehicles is nine grand before taxes. Get yours here.

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Arc One by Arc

the tesla of boats

Do I dare recommend a literal boat in this holiday gift guide? I dare! With 500 HP, the Arc One can go up to 40 MPH, has enough charge for three to five hours of boating, and has room for up to 12 people. Like Teslas, over-the-air software updates are delivered to a fully integrated software system that controls not only the boats primary mechanics, but a premium sound system and large touchscreen command module. Also, important: the boats are made primarily for fresh water, though can do saltwater with extra maintenance.

If you're still with me, you may be disappointed to hear that the Arc One is sold out, and that Arc will never sell another again. But a new model is on the way, and you can reserve one for $500 — do that here. And if you want to sign up for a demo first, here's the form.

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Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses

a rare ai-powered wearable with features to come

I'll just quote from a September issue of the newsletter, when we covered Meta's reveal of the glasses —

The sunglasses, which don’t look stupid, can take photos, livestream, and make calls; the five built-in mics allow you to give them voice commands (more on that in a second), and they double as headphones.

That isn’t even the best part though. In this video of Zuckerberg presenting the glasses, he says Meta will send a software update to the smart glasses that will enable its AI to be multimodal. “If you want to know what the building is that you’re looking at, or for [the smart glasses] to translate a sign that’s in front of you, or if you need help fixing this sad leaky faucet, you can basically just talk to Meta AI and it’ll walk you through it.”

The issue the glasses first appeared in was titled "The Future is Starting to Look Like the Future," and we titled it that partly because of the Ray-Ban/Meta item. Imagine, in the future, that intelligence is a commodity, flowing through everything, just like electricity. How do you access it? Is it enough for it only to be available in your home, or looking at a mobile device? What unlocks do a hands-free, intelligence powered HUD that you can talk to represent? I think these Ray-Bans will start to illuminate the answer.

A pair starts at $299, and prescription is available. Browse here.

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Multicolor wireless lamp by LUND

squeezable-bulb portable color-changeable brightness-dimmer glow lamp

It's nice to have lights in the house that aren't just your standard warm-color orange ceiling spotlights, isn't it? Admittedly rare for this gift guide, I'm recommending the LUND light because I own one — I found it at a local gift shop and am ashamed to say was 'enchanted' by it — and as a light freak (if you know, you know) this lamp has like, never gotten old for me?

Notice the dot just below the bulb in the image of the lamp above. That's the touch-sensitive button with which you can cycle through eight colors; the knob below it controls brightness. Below that is the charger pad, which you can take the lamp off for almost two days without needing to put back on. The bulb itself is a flexible, squeezable rubbery sphere, utility of which is durability more than anything else.

Shop them here — the mini size is $35, the standard size is $80.

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Glassware by Mociun

2023 addition to family heirlooms (serious suggestion)

A lot of Mociun glassware looks like it belongs at Star Trek: The Next Generation's iconic bar on The Enterprise Ten Forward. The Brooklyn-based, primarily brick-and-mortar retailer makes, in general, highly cherishable, irresistible stuff, and whether they mean to or not, a lot of it feels futuristic. For both of these reasons, and the fact that I bought a set of Mociun glasses years ago and still love every piece, I recommend you browse their site with gifts for your favorite person in mind.

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Worlds Beyond Time, a book by @70sSciFi

teleport back to the future

Worlds Beyond Time, a "visual history of the spaceships, alien landscapes, cryptozoology, and imagined industrial machinery of 70s paperback sci-fi art" is by Adam Rowe, the person behind @70sSciFi, a must-follow X account from which I've sourced art for many a White Pill newsletter. In addition its surreal, psychedelic art, the book describes the history of the genre, and its major players — Chris Foss, Peter Elson, Tim White, Jack Gaughan, and Virgil Finlay, and their influences.

Several options for buying the book on Adam's Linktree.

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CyberBeer + CyberStein Limited Edition Set by Tesla

tesla steins and brews for tesla stans and bros

The two things in the middle of that picture are beers, and the other two things are steins for drinking the beers. Tesla partnered with California brewers Buzzrock Brewing Co. to create CyberBeer, which is a German lager with 7% ABV. The steins, obviously Cybertruck inspired, are ceramic and matte black. The set comes in a nice rectangular matte black box.

If you have an Elon stan in your life, this one's a layup, but order it soon (a set is $150), before they run out.

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Pod Cover by Eight Sleep

the future of sleep

Though Eight Sleep's pod cover is at this point embarrassingly trendy, it's impossible to deny that it's an innovation at the frontier of sleep that you could have easily read about in a sci-fi novel instead of this White Pill gift guide. If you don't know, it's a smart mattress cover that's effectively a bed thermostat, changing temperature based on your preferences and how cold or hot it is outside, with an alarm clock that wakes you up with soft vibrations and temperature change. These and other features can be split, such that you and your partner can have different settings; there's an app, of course, that tracks your sleep analytics.

Check it out here, they're currently priced starting at $2,195 plus the cost of a $15 or $24 monthly membership.

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Equinox 2 Telescope by Unistellar

quick setup, top-of-the-line telescope, no experience required

Though on the pricier side ($2,499), the Equinox 2 is probably the most user-friendly telescope on the market right now. What little setup you have to do you can do on its app (in fact the app is your primary way of controlling the telescope), and if you're not good at — or interested in — manually searching the night sky, you can turn on its Explore Mode and it will just find stuff to look at, for you, or you can scroll through the celestial bodies viewable in your area on the app, and choose any of them for the telescope to target.

With many telescopes, setup can be fairly technical — in a process called collimation, you have to check and adjust the alignment of the mirrors, otherwise images won't be clear and sharp; you have to use a finder scope (a small telescope mounted on the main scope) to find celestial objects; and you have to go through star alignment, a process of aligning the telescope with the celestial coordinate system. Equinox basically automates collimation and star alignment, and actually eliminates the need for a finder scope. In other words, you don't need to be an experienced astronomer to use it.

More info on the telescope on Unistellar's site, where you can buy it too.

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Starlink Roam by SpaceX

connectivity anywhere

Most satellite ISPs are stationed about 22,000 miles (36,000 km) up, in geostationary orbit, where their satellites stay in a fixed position relative to a terrestrial location. Here, the gravitational pull of the Earth (which decreases with altitude) and the centrifugal force on the satellite (due to its orbital motion) are in equilibrium. Thus, the satellites move at the same speed as the earth's rotation. But while geostationary orbits have certain advantages, high latency isn't one of them, with ping being up to 600 milliseconds, making high data activity such as streaming, phone calls, or gaming pretty much a nonstarter.

SpaceX has taken a different tack by deploying a constellation of thousands of satellites that orbit much closer to earth, improving upon geostationary speeds by up to 24x, per the company. Its new Roam terminal — the size of a nightstand — uses SpaceX's constellation to provide internet basically anywhere in the world, even if you're moving (e.g. in your camper). It's self-orienting, meaning that setup is literally two steps: "(1) Plug it in, (2) Point at sky."

There are a variety of monthly plans that range from $150 to $250, and the terminal is $599. Buy one here.

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First-person drone by DJI

immersive drone experience

AI recently beat world champions of first-person drone racing using "an integrated inertial measurement unit measures acceleration and speed while an artificial neural network [processed] the data from the camera to localize the drone in space and detect the gates along the racetrack. The information [was then] fed to a control unit, also based on a deep neural network that [chose] the best action to finish the circuit as fast as possible."

Could your favorite person in your life be the human that retakes the throne and secures humanity's destiny as the form of intelligence that dominates the first-person drone racing sport? The first step to finding out is to buy him or her the Avata VR drone by DJI, a VR-headset viewing, handheld-controller operated drone that can almost fit in the palm of your hand. Compared to its competitors, Avata's drone is generally known for its much better latency (between drone and headset) and an excellent, crystal clear camera system.

Shop them here — they start at $629.

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Solar-powered wireless headphones by Urbanista

these headphones practically never die

These headphones are always charging in sun, which in theory means you've got unlimited playtime with Urbanista's wireless, solar-powered headphones. Of course, it's not always sunny out, and you're not always using headphones outdoors, but these headphones have a USB-C charged 80-hour battery life as well. (Basically, all this adds up to headphones that have very long battery life; Urbanista says users can go months without needing to charge; one reviewer in the dreary UK used them indoors and outdoors for two weeks without charging, and the headphones were still at 80% battery life.)

Buy them for $169 here.

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Real-time speech transcription glasses by TranscribeGlass

super helpful innovation for the deaf or hard-of-hearing

These glasses project speech onto their lenses in-real time, representing an innovative alternative (or compliment to) traditional hearing aids people who are deaf or hard of hearing need to enjoy conversation; see it in action to get a sense of what the experience is like. It's powered by Google's speech-to-text transcription (it works for any language Google can transcribe), which the device pulls in via a Bluetooth connection with the user's iPhone or Android.

TranscribeGlass's glasses aren't on the market just yet, but you can sign your giftee up for the waitlist to join the beta test, during which they "will try out TranscribeGlass in different usage scenarios in your daily life. Our team will be in touch... on a regular basis during this testing period, and be available via WhatsApp/Google Meet/email to answer any questions and [help with] the beta version.

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Cyberpunk electric kid's dirtbike by Cake

start your kid off right

If you've always wanted your kid to have a cyberpunk electric dirtbike, now's your chance. Recommended for children over 6 years old, Cake's Trull model is 70 pounds, has a range of about an hour, and its top speed is 25 mph / 40 km/h. You (the parent) can actually govern the bike's power output (speed), enabling you to start your kid off easy, letting him or her improve until they're ready for more power. The Trull's suspension is specifically tuned for riders that weigh between 55 and 88 pounds (25 and 40kg).

They cost $3,500 and will ship within two weeks of order, shop them here. If you're in California or New York you can test drive the adult version (unclear if kids is available).

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The Movie Art of Syd Mead

canonical art

Visual futurist Syd Mead famously did concept art for Blade Runner, Tron, Aliens, even some of the machines in Star Wars, and this book — at 256 pages — is the largest collection of his work that's ever been published. Mead, who called science fiction "reality ahead of schedule," produced extremely evocative art of the type that just gets more interesting the longer you look at it. Check out a few pieces we included at the bottom of an early edition of the White Pill.

Buy it on his site for 50 bucks.

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L1 electric travel trailer by Lightship

the tesla of campers

Another big ticket item: Lightship's all-electric RV trailer. From a founding team of Tesla, Rivian, and other EV manufacturing veterans, the camper's unique design optimizes the vehicle's aerodynamics and maximizes the frankly insane surface area they were able to cover with windows. Solar panels cover its roof, which allows it to charge in remote locations that don't have electric hookups and extends its range while towed; a fully charged camper can go seven days without needing to fill back up. It can sleep four to six people.

The L1 will eventually start between $125,000 and $151,500, but since production won't start until late 2024, you can only reserve one for $500 now.

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Art

photorealistic space renders

Above, left is Lars Sowig's "Space Sniper" ($22 to $78 for prints); right is Maciej Rebisz's "Mars 21" (from $59). Maciej is known for his art on Projekt RED's Cyberpunk 2077, and I don't really know who Lars Sowig is but I found him on X and really like his stuff, ok? (Also, it's the only art he has for sale).

Maciej has more than just the art above for sale, check out all of it here.