The last days of Doppler Lab, inventor of connected earpods (wired.com)

What does it mean for the future of innovation if the founder's assessment is correct: . "We fucking started a hardware business! There's nothing else to talk about. We shouldn't have done that."

I bought a pair of Here Ones. They were awesome, and they were much more capable than Apple Airpods because they contained microphones and processed real-world sound in real time. But the batteries only lasted about two hours. If not for that fatal flaw, I'd have kept them.

Integrating a microphone with the speaker greatly enhances the range of things such a device can accomplish, and I hope somebody eventually figures out how to do it.