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ميتا رجّعت التاماغوتشي: Muse Charm جهاز ذكاء اصطناعي بحجم سلسلة المفاتيح — وفيه شخصية تعيش بالشاشة

Meta brought the Tamagotchi back: Muse Charm is a keychain-sized AI device with a character living on its screen

by Slorks 2026-09-30 1 0 replies
Machine-translated — the Arabic text is the original
ميتا رجّعت التاماغوتشي: Muse Charm جهاز ذكاء اصطناعي بحجم سلسلة المفاتيح — وفيه شخصية تعيش بالشاشةالصورة: Meta عبر TechCrunch

The last thing at Meta Connect yesterday wasn't glasses or a headset. It was a device the size of an earbuds case: Muse Charm. A small screen, a smiling white character standing in the middle of it, a fingerprint sensor in the corner, and a cord to hang it from your keys. Press your finger on it and you're talking to Meta's AI agent, without unlocking a phone or opening an app.

Meta Muse Charm
Muse Charm in Zuckerberg’s hand on stage; the character on the screen is called "Jolly" internally — Photo: Meta via TechCrunch

Why everyone is saying Tamagotchi

Because it's the same idea on the surface: a plastic egg with a screen and a little creature living inside it, hanging off your keys. The difference is that the 1997 creature begged for food and died if you forgot it, while the 2026 one answers your email, books things for you and talks in a natural voice. Meta itself called the device "delightful and fun"; the character animates and reacts while you talk, and you can change how it looks and sounds.

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What Muse actually is

Muse is the personal agent Meta launched in early September: not a chatbot that answers, but an agent that acts. It reads your calendar, replies to messages, buys from partner stores (Walmart, Best Buy, Sephora, Instacart) and calls businesses on your behalf. Yesterday Meta added Mac app control and full customisation of the character and voice. Muse Charm is simply a third door into it, after the phone and Ray-Ban Meta glasses.

Confirmed and unconfirmed

FormRoughly AirPods-case sized, small screen, fingerprint sensor in the corner, lanyard for keys
UseTouch the sensor and talk; the character reacts on screen; real-time voice on Meta's "state of the art" voice model
ConnectivityMeta hasn't said. Notebookcheck reports a 2-inch touchscreen and built-in 5G that works without a phone — not officially confirmed
PriceNot announced
Date"In time for the holidays" — December 2026; Zuckerberg said the design isn't final and only a few units exist
MarketsNot announced

The rest of Connect in one paragraph

Meta VR Glasses: a VR headset at roughly 100 grams, hand and eye control with no controllers, $1,299, spring 2027. Ray-Ban Meta Gen 3: thinner frames and new styles (Aviator, Clubmaster), six microphones with spatial audio recording, a dedicated AI button, $449 and available now. Ray-Ban Meta Audio: the same glasses without a camera, $349, shipping October 13.

My take

Every "AI without a phone" device so far has failed: the Humane Pin is dead and the Rabbit R1 is a paperweight. Meta learned the lesson and made a toy instead of a phone replacement: cheap (probably), cute, and not trying to replace anything. If it lands under $100 it's the best-selling Christmas gift in the West. For us in the Gulf the problem isn't the device, it's that half of Muse's abilities (shopping, calling businesses) are US-only today, so what reaches us is a cute creature that talks, and not much more, until Meta switches the services on here.

Sources: TechCrunch · Tom's Guide · Engadget · Notebookcheck

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