LET’S GET WEIRD

New year, same weird

Happy New Year! I have a feeling it’s going to be the weirdest year yet (in a good way).

We’re starting 2024 off strong with:

🚽 A voice-controlled bidet so you can finally thank your toilet

📱 Return of the Blackberry phone 

🍞 Something for the gamers. Ever wanted Xbox-branded toast?

🛠️ A collection of developer, open-source, and no-code tools

And don’t forget to tell us what you thought about today’s newsletter at the end!

— The Product Hunt team

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IT’S ONLY POLITE

Talk to your toilet

Consider the toilet.

When was the last time you spoke to it? I bet you never uttered even a fleeting remark of gratitude for all it does. Why would you? It’s a toilet, after all.

Kohler asked that question and kicked off CES 2024 with the PureWash E930. A voice-controlled bidet that will set you back $2,149. Talk about flushing your money away, eh? Okay, no more jokes.

Alongside finally getting to boss your toilet around, the PureWash E930 comes with a heated seat, remote control, adjustable water pressure, and various spray modes.

So, if you ever wanted to be the proud owner of a fancy, talking toilet, now’s your chance.

HOT RIGHT NOW

Talking points from Planet Internet

📱 Phone nostalgia: Remember Blackberry phones? Hearing the clickity-clack of the tiny keyboard from the back of the class. The good old days. Time to relive it. This case slips onto your iPhone to give it a Blackberry-inspired keyboard.  

🍞 Xbox Toaster: Filing this under things I didn’t know I needed until right now. Microsoft released a toaster inspired by the Xbox Series S. It even burns the Xbox logo onto your bread.

⌨️ Future Keyboards: Microsoft is updating its keyboard for the first time in over 30 years. It’s been a good run, but change is in the air. Like the Windows key, Microsoft will add a dedicated “Copilot key“ to pull up the company’s AI assistant.

NEW TOOLS

DEV TOOLS

• Pieces Copilot is an AI-powered sidekick to help devs ship faster. 

• LAUNCHED uses AI to build and deploy a site in under 3 minutes.

• Rely is a developer portal with an AI assistant you can speak with.

• snippet.run is a platform that lets you host and run your code snippets in the cloud. 

NO-CODE

• gptengineer.app lets you build a site through plain text in Terminal.

• ncScale 2.0 provides a 1-click monitoring solution for no-code stacks.

• Sikey lets you easily craft a landing page for your next project, with no code needed.

OPEN SOURCE

• CrewAI is a platform for building sophisticated multi-agent interactions in AI.

• Ferret is a multimodal large lange model (MLLM) from Apple that handles image understanding and language processing.

UNTIL NEXT TIME

Written by Aaron O’Leary.

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