This affordable gadget has features similar to the much pricier AI Pin fromHumane, but retails at just $199. The Rabbit R1 was co-designed with Teenage Engineering and features a practical design with physical buttons.
While the gadget is up for pre-order and is expected to ship by March or April this year,scalpershave already listed it oneBayat much higher prices.
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Rabbit’s founder and CEO Jesse Lyu shared a screenshot of his phone showing a few Rabbit R1 listings on eBay priced between $300 and $690. He said, “hell no. don’t do this,” suggesting that the company didn’t anticipate the demand from users.
Most of these listings are from people who’ve successfully placed a pre-order in the first two batches and have even posted screenshots of their orders, with their order number obfuscated.
These sellers on eBay promise to ship the unpacked Rabbit R1 device as soon as they receive their pre-ordered R1s.
Is it worth being scalped?
The R1 is an AI-powered companion device with a small 2.88-inch touchscreen on the company’s Rabbit OS. It has a physical push-to-talk button to interact with the device and a 360-degree rotatable camera that the company calls Rabbit Eye.
It uses a large action model to play your favorite songs, order groceries, book cabs, edit spreadsheets, and more, just using voice commands.
While this intuitive device may have a massive learning curve and is AI-dependent, its low price, unique form factor, and massive hype are offering people a chance to make quick bucks by reselling the nifty gadget.
Jitendra Soni was a Tech Writer on Dexerto’s UK Team. An expert in tech, especially smartphones, he has almost 10 years of experience. He spearheaded the TechRadar India editorial operations and has written for TechRadar, TechRadar Pro, Free Press Journal, Mobile Scout, IB Times Singapore, Indulge Express, and more.
