io-response
📰 The Story They Missed: NOVi Already Launched
Last week, BGR’s Chris Smith dropped a feature on OpenAI’s upcoming IO device — the screenless AI-powered gadget that might be worn around the neck, monitor your voice, and act as your third core device behind a phone and laptop.
He compared it to the failed Humane AI Pin.
He predicted IO will succeed where others didn’t.
He called it “a companion device that finally gets it right.”
But there was one problem:
He left out the part where this already exists.
And it’s called NOVi.
NOVi Was Built Before IO Was Announced 🧠⚔️
While IO was still in stealth, I was driving cross-country in a van with five kids in the back, demoing a wearable AI device that listens to your voice, detects burnout, and signals emotional collapse before it happens.
Not imagined.
Not announced.
Already launched.
Built from necessity.
Not hype.
💡 What NOVi Is
NOVi is the first wearable signal system for emotional survival.
It’s not a pin.
Not a headset.
Not a phone.
A screenless necklace you wear — and it listens.
Inside it: DALiQ, our proprietary voice-based AI engine that transforms tone, breath, and silence into emotional diagnostics.
It tells you when stress is building.
It flags burnout before it breaks you.
It listens where others just track steps.
🔥 Traction the Media Missed
💥 100+ units pre-sold at $99 — no PR, no paid ads
🚨 Buyers: therapists, first responders, educators — plus early consumers
⚙️ U.S.-based prototype development locked in
📦 $200K build cap + 1,000-unit production line staged
🧠 DALiQ AI trained on real emotional voice data — already functional
💡 SaaS model + enterprise licensing built-in
📈 Institutional co-investor interest live — multiple 2nd-round firms leaning in
🚆 No stealth. No whiteboards. Just signal, already moving.
Respect to IO. But Let’s Keep the Timeline Honest.
We’re not here to tear down IO.
What Sam Altman and Jony Ive are building will change things.
They’ve got the funding. The reach. The infrastructure.
But NOVi already exists.
Already launched. Already worn. Already catching the fall before it hits.
Before the device goes viral…
Before $6.5B gets framed as “first mover”…
Let this be the timestamp:
🖤 We built the signal.
🖤 We shipped the first version.
🖤 And we’re still here — growing, scaling, and signaling louder.
You can read Chris’s article here
But now, at least, you’ve got the other side of the story.
All signal,
Ryan Hansen
Founder, NOVi
📱 424.471.2121
🌐 www.noviwear.com/io-response