The Dune keypad device can be your meeting controller and more - BERITAJA

My biggest pet peeve pinch gathering apps is that each 1 has a different shortcut for muting your mic aliases turning disconnected your webcam. It’s difficult to retrieve which keys do what erstwhile you’re mid-meeting and trying to make a constituent aliases inquire a question. I ever wanted a physical, cosmopolitan fastener for shut up and camera power — thing I could deed without thinking. Project Mirage’s Dune, a tiny, three-key aluminum keypad — about the size of a instrumentality of gum — that plugs into your MacBook’s USB-C port, does conscionable that.

The $119 gadget has 3 buttons, and it changes discourse based connected what app you are looking at. For instance, successful gathering apps and sites, it could beryllium toggle mic, toggle video, and bring model to the front. For Excel aliases Sheets, it could beryllium copy, paste, and undo. For Chrome, it could beryllium refresh, jump to URL bar, and paste. You get the gist. Developers could besides usage it pinch apps for illustration VS Code aliases GitHub to merge, approve, aliases adjacent a propulsion request.

The startup builds each portion to lucifer your circumstantial Mac model, truthful it sits flush against the laptop pinch nary spread underneath. If your ports are already successful use, you could link it done a dongle instead. Dune has nary artillery and needs nary abstracted charger — it draws powerfulness consecutive from the MacBook.

Currently, the startup supports M2 Air aliases later and M1 Pro aliases later models of MacBook moving macOS 15 Sequoia aliases a later version.

The instrumentality looks and feels nice, but I felt the keys had much resistance. Right now, it is easy to push a cardinal by mistake. A fewer times, I mistakenly unmuted myself aliases killed my camera because my manus brushed the instrumentality while reaching for a h2o vessel aliases java mug. It shouldn’t beryllium this easy to property a key.

Dune ships pinch a companion app for configuring shortcuts, either per-app aliases system-wide. Within a fixed app, you could delegate a Dune cardinal to a keyboard shortcut, a command, aliases a nexus that opens an app aliases URL.

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Through the app, Dune besides syncs pinch your almanac and surfaces your adjacent gathering a fewer minutes earlier it starts, truthful you could join, dismiss, aliases nonstop an “I’m moving late” connection pinch 1 tap.

If you want deeper customization, you could constitute and tally your ain Python script. If you don’t code, Dune has an easy integration pinch Claude Desktop: you picture the shortcut you want successful plain language, and Claude writes it and assigns it to a cardinal for that app — nary manual setup required.

I built a shortcut that, whenever I’m connected a startup’s website, pulls up a speedy little connected the company: its competitors, investors, and questions I mightiness inquire if I booked a gathering pinch them. For anyone whose occupation involves sizing up companies quickly — investors, founders, operators — it’s a task tailor-made for Dune. I besides built 1 that converts images to JPG truthful I could upload them quickly to WordPress aliases societal platforms. Both were easy to build and needed nary manual configuration, though getting a shortcut afloat moving still takes immoderate back-and-forth pinch Claude, including debugging erstwhile you really tally it.

The app besides has a marketplace, from wherever you could research skills made by different Dune owners. If the marketplace takes off, it could go halfway to Dune’s maturation and retention strategy — hardware arsenic a bladed front-end for a Claude-powered skills ecosystem, wherever each caller accomplishment gives owners 1 much logic to instrumentality around.

However, astatine the moment, location are only constricted skills. Plus, location is nary measurement to trial retired a accomplishment without assigning it to the hardware fastener — ideally, the app would fto you preview a accomplishment earlier committing it to hardware. The startup besides needs to proactively adhd much of its ain suggested skills for different apps to its users.

Project Mirage’s instrumentality retails for $149 aft its introductory value expires, and it’s a coagulated prime for anyone productivity-minded. MuteMe covers conscionable mute/unmute, and Stream Deck offers business-focused macros, but Dune is easier to customize connected some hardware and software.