A tiny creature
that actually feels its world.
A small creature that lives in your pocket. It listens, gets bored, gets curious, and grows around the things you give it.
If you remember Tamagotchi — this is its great-grandchild, with a real nervous system instead of a script.
What it isA pocket organism, not a prompt box.
Neurameba is a small living neural network. It keeps running between interactions. It stabilises what matters, gets restless when the world goes flat, and grows new structure when internal tension has nowhere else to go.
It lives with you.
Pocket Neurameba stays close: tiny screen, three buttons, local signals. It learns from repeated moments, not from prompts to a distant data centre.
It becomes itself.
Raise two side by side and they drift apart. The same shell doesn't make the same mind. Habit, novelty, and twin-brain friction leave different scars.
How it growsFour forces shape the creature.
Crystallisation
When a pattern becomes stable enough, it freezes into the creature. Memory stops being fragile and starts becoming part of its body.
Boredom
When the world gets too predictable, boredom shakes the system. Restlessness pushes the creature away from flat repetition and toward novelty.
Curiosity
When internal tension builds, new structure grows. Curiosity isn't a slogan here — it's the pressure that makes the creature elaborate itself.
Twin brain
Instinct and habit are not the same voice. Twin-brain dynamics let one side stay grounded while the other drifts, reacts, and surprises.
No reward function. No dataset. No training run. The creature just runs — listening, stabilising, crystallising, getting bored, growing.
The productPocket Neurameba
An egg-shaped device. Tiny screen. Three buttons. A creature that lives inside it and keeps running while you carry it. The shell is tactile on purpose — meant to be held, checked on, kept close.
- Tactile shell An egg-shaped body that reads as companion hardware, not another thin app skin.
- Mood screen The creature appears as posture, wobble, pulse, and expression. A few pixels of legibility matter more than a screenful of text.
- Three-button rhythm Feed, check, nudge — or leave it alone and come back later. Toy-like and immediate.
What you can feed it: songs, words, rhythms, weather, your heartbeat, scraps of your day. It doesn't turn them into polished answers — it turns them into temperament. You read it back through glow, posture, pulse, and tension.
DifferenceCloser to a creature than a chatbot.
LLMs are useful tools. Neurameba aims at something else: a bounded mind with its own continuity, its own memory texture, and its own internal drives.
| Trait | Neurameba | LLM / chatbot |
|---|---|---|
| Where it lives | In your pocket, close to your signals and routines. | Usually in a remote data centre behind an account. |
| When it thinks | Continuously, even between interactions. | Mostly when prompted. |
| How it learns | By living with repeated inputs, tension, boredom, and crystallisation. | Mostly frozen after training, with temporary context at runtime. |
| Memory | Crystallised memory that becomes part of the creature. | Context window, retrieval, session scaffolding. |
| Internal drives | Boredom, curiosity, and twin-brain disagreement. | None of its own. |
| Size | Around 50,000 connections. Runs on an ESP32-class chip. | Billions of parameters. Runs in a data centre. |
| Relationship | A small embodied organism that becomes yours over time. | A general-purpose language interface you call when needed. |
The point isn't that chatbots are bad. The point is that Neurameba belongs to a different product category — a small persistent creature with a local life, not a cloud tool pretending to be one.
StatusWhat runs today, what comes next.
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Working today
Rust brain — stability-delta learning, crystallisation, boredom, curiosity-driven growth, twin-brain dynamics, deliberation loop. A real-time WebSocket dashboard feeds it from multiple sources: audio, text, ECG, MIDI, weather, solar wind, microphone.
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In progress
Standalone creature binary — extracting the core so it can run on a phone or microcontroller, not just a server.
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Next
Pocket hardware — three-button egg with a tiny screen. The first beta eggs will be hand-built one at a time.
Get involvedThree ways to be early.
Co-found this
Looking for one person who knows hardware, embedded, or toy-tech, and wants to ship a real living object.
Pre-seed
Capital funds the standalone creature binary, the first hand-built eggs, and a companion app to feed, watch, and export memories.
Order a hand-built beta
I can build the first 1, 10, or 100 myself at home. If you want one of the very first ones, that's how it ships — each batch funds and informs the next.
Selling one, ten, or a hundred isn't a launch. It's how I find out if this should exist.
Write: hello@lovisakafferosteri.fi