TIME P1: a desk clock you talk to, prototyping attention cues for AI agents
genmon · x · 2026-09-17
Inanimate Tech shares TIME P1, their second major prototype: a desk clock you talk to. The design question is attention cues — what stands in for eye contact when an AI agent inhabits a physical device?
Key points:
- Their first device with a microphone, promptable by voice alone, no keyboard or web UI
- A small round screen experiments with attention; display and buttons let the agent respond
- Living with it shaped the product: an accidental Tamagotchi request was fulfilled by the agent using text and buttons, and the author uses it as a Pomodoro timer hooked to his Bear task list
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