There’s still enough to make me suspicious, even setting aside the issue of “is this thing physically possible”:
1. The website says it will work with all these different chess sites, but now the second video says they need the Kickstarter money because they haven’t got very far on this side.
(Also, this is meant to include Lichess, and while the video mentions
Chess.com, it doesn’t mention Lichess, who have said they’re definitely not working with Regium and that, if Regium plugged into Lichess by itself, you would look like you were a bot).
2. The status of the project has always been very opaque. The first video suggests they have a finished product, and the site didn’t disabuse this, except that you couldn’t buy it yet. Kickstarter was only mentioned much later and the reasons for it weren’t given until the second video.
3. Things keep disappearing on their page, such as the supposed association with Magnus. I also remember it saying it came with Fritz, but now can’t see that.
Now there could be innocent explanations, but until I see the 50th happy post from Lichess users, I’ll wait.