Ideas to start from. Each card says what works today and what is coming.
Use cases

What people do with a phone that can touch any screen.

General tools get used in ways nobody planned. Here is a list to start from.

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For people

Everyday.

assistant: Android today, iOS coming

Fill in a form in a language you don't read

A visa form, a foreign tax portal, a booking site in Japanese. It reads the labels, you supply the facts.

Android today

Type a long password on the TV

Your phone becomes the TV's keyboard. Wi-Fi passwords stop being an arrow-key ordeal.

Android today, iPhone coming

Log in to the computer in the corner

The server, the NAS, the mini PC with no keyboard. A tentacle on its USB port and you are at the login prompt.

Android today, iPhone coming

Keep working with a dead laptop keyboard

Pair the phone as a keyboard, or plug a tentacle into its USB port. Order the part later.

assistant: Android today, iOS coming

Hands busy, screen waiting

Kneading, soldering, holding a baby. "Next slide." "Reply that I'll be there at six."

Android today, iPhone coming

Help a relative, for real

Instead of describing where to click, point your phone at their screen and do it. Nothing gets installed.

Android today, iPhone coming

The iPad on the kitchen counter

Recipes, lists, a long message, without putting flour on the glass.

Android today, iPhone coming

Set up a fresh Raspberry Pi

First boot, no monitor cable, no spare keyboard. A tentacle gets you through it.

assistant: Android today, iOS coming

Read the small print for me

A settings page, a contract, an error message. Ask what it says, then let it act.

For agents and makers

A hand on any machine.

A hand for automation that has to work from the outside: no API, no agent installed, no permission but a USB port.

assistant: Android today, iOS coming

Vision-agent loop on a real screen

Photo in, plan out, keystrokes through a tentacle, photo again. A pattern for your own agent.

where we are going

Drive a machine that has no API

An instrument with an old control panel, a kiosk, a legacy till. An agent on the Resonator network can operate it, once you allow it.

where we are going

Grow your own tentacle

An old CNC mill, a printer on a parallel port, a serial console. Our protocol on one side, the machine's language on the other.

Android today, iPhone coming

Test what the user sees

Real USB keystrokes in, a camera out. The actual machine, from the outside, login screen included.

Android today, iPhone coming

Recover a box that locked you out

Remote desktop down, SSH down, screen on. The tentacle is your crash cart.

where we are going

Share a tentacle with a service you trust

A tentacle is a peer with an identity. One policy row lets a service use it; deleting it stops them.

What's next

Two ideas we are planning.

where we are going

Live translation of the screen

Point the phone at a screen in a language you don't read and see it, or hear it, in yours.

where we are going

The human tentacle

No hardware at all: the assistant tells you where to click and what to type, checking after each step. The fourth tentacle is you.

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