Humane Debuts $700 AI Pin With 'Laser Ink Display'

It's a device that should exist 10 years in the future at dollar store prices, but brought to you today before the infastructure to make it an indispensable tool is even there to make it amazing. And it replaces nothing you can't already have today. AI is supposed to completely do the thinking for you, we wont even be close to that for another 5-10 years. Dozens or hundreds of companies are going to try to figure out how to make the next must own device that keeps on on the grid 24-7. It'll probably be an earpiece with a monocle for the AR display system. You can't have a device tell you and show you how to do everything if you cant see what it means and hear what it says. When these gadgets can let you skip getting a college education and give you the knowledge to do just about anything, then it'll live up to the must have device they pretend to have now.
 
This is pretty obviously a half-baked product rushed to production to cash in on the AI goldrush, but I can see some form of that manifesting itself in other future products. I'm not going to knock it too much because I think there are some useful things there.
 
Former Apple employee? Probably proposed this to Steve Jobs years ago, and got laughed all the way down the street
 
The monthly cost sounds like it includes voice and data for ai voice queries, but obviously this is meant as an add on to a mobile phone, so you would be spending an extra $300 per year just to use this device. And is ChatGPT even set up for voice queries? I can’t imagine the processing requirements for this function to even be usable.

Why would anyone take photos with this? It seems like they tried to cram a lot into it, and I don’t know what the “one thing” it does that is better than other devices. An Apple Watch is half the price and has much more functionality that this.
 
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jooish said:
If Apple was making this, most of you nay saying would line up to get one. Lol.
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No.
Apple doesn't find tech and then market it, they start from the user experience and figure out what tech they need to make that happen.
This thing is a pile of features with no clear reason to exist. Nothing about it says "Yea, that's better than anything else and is going to move the needle".
This is a ham-fisted attempt at making the Star Trek communicator badge a reality, except it's too big, too expensive, and locked to a company's infrastructure that seems unlikely to last very long.

There's absolutely zero about the device that's "AI". It's a thin client, an audio/video IO device. This reminds me of when Sun trying to market "The network is the computer".
 
The replies in this thread are another classic "Apple's New Thing" thread in the making.

The lack of imagination and the rigidity to today's existing paradigm are baffling. Does nobody remember the massive shift away from how things were pre and post 2007? And how those invested in the comfort of the at the time existing personal computer and cell phone dual paradigm, resisted and mocked any changes away from what they knew?

Sure, HUMANE is new and unproven and the jury's out on whether they can execute, but the concept has merit and the technology and polish are impressive for a brand new company.

Apple could pull this off in Apple Watch + AirPods with a generative transformer model that they're working on, but it would need a camera to perform some of the more useful features. Vision glasses would probably fit that role in 5+ years.

I'm eager to see how this does.
 
Every device will have deep AI integration soon. Why a pin over a smartwatch with a display. Absolutely hate voice commands in public too.

If it could observe your workflows then show you how to implement automations, even write the code etc, that would be worth the price.

As it is it looks like more landfill.
 
I see most people saying "Hard No" "Hard Pass" etc. At least this is an attempt to do something a bit different, a bit exciting. I give them that. Shouldn't new tech seem like Sci-fi instead of boring incremental updates? This sure seems like sci-fi to me. I think the Apple Vision Pro is as big an unknown as this in terms of what the next generation of personal tech is gonna be. There is still no evidence that VR headsets are going to be the future.
 
truthsteve said:
this looks so bad and I feel so sorry for anyone who invested in this company and anyone who placed a preorder. lol

that projector on hand feature is a classic example of gimmick ideas.

what happens if they get on a crowded train and someone just snatches it

why would I want someone to listen to my phone calls

if I'm underground and there's no internet, how will this product be useful to me in getting directions or doing practically anything else other than taking video or listening to music.

I don't think they thought this product through.
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Plus it doesn't appeal to business customers because it doesn't have a keyboard. Which makes it not a very good email machine. And it has less space than a Nomad. Lame.
 
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