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Humane Debuts $700 AI Pin With 'Laser Ink Display'
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Also, hilariously, it seems they didn‘t even fact check their own demo - because we all know chatGTP is never wrong/non-sensical 🙄😂
1) The April 8 solar eclipse will not pass over any of Australia, East Timor, or anywhere in that region.
2) According to the USDA, one almond has 0.254 grams of protein. 15g would be about 59 almonds. He looks to be holding around 16-20.
1) The April 8 solar eclipse will not pass over any of Australia, East Timor, or anywhere in that region.
2) According to the USDA, one almond has 0.254 grams of protein. 15g would be about 59 almonds. He looks to be holding around 16-20.
i would feel uncomfortable meeting someone who wore this device
kudos for thinking out of the box though
kudos for thinking out of the box though
A brief note--Humane was co-founded and is run by a woman and a man: Bethany Bongiorno and Imran Chaudhri. Both are ex-Apple.
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Don’t know if statement is supposed to shame Bethany or give her credit.A brief note--Humane was co-founded and is run by a woman and a man: Bethany Bongiorno and Imran Chaudhri. Both are ex-Apple.
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I hate the time I live in.
I hate the time I live in.
Even without a phone with you, your Apple cellular watch can do a lot of that. The laser stuff is cool though. If it was cheaper, I'd check it out as a supplemental device.
Honestly this is just an Apple Watch with fewer features in a much less convenient form factor. If the AI is good they might have something there but when compared to Siri the bar is not high. Overall seems like a prototype that should have stayed a prototype but was brought to market because it's "AI" so it attracted some VC that missed out on OpenAI / ChatGPT.
Agreed. I think people are too negative. Companies like this are looking for what's next after the 'thin piece of glass' format phone. Apple is heading down the Apple Watch/Apple Vision path, but that doesn't mean it's the correct path. I expect we'll see a lot of interesting ideas coming out as AI gets better and hardware continues to get smaller.
It is a shame that none of the outside investors took a look at this in the idea phase and said no dice and back to the drawing board. This is just like the Bud Light debacle...no one in charge thinking things through.
I believe one or more of the founders worked at Apple where they had successful products. Like most they were mistaken in thinking they could map that success to a new product on their own. This gimmick would have never made beyond a drawing and functional summary.
I believe one or more of the founders worked at Apple where they had successful products. Like most they were mistaken in thinking they could map that success to a new product on their own. This gimmick would have never made beyond a drawing and functional summary.
I can download an offline map app and launch it with a tap of a button?
I can watch a full length movie while on a long subway ride?
I can play games?
I can do dozens of other things?
Re: the personal speaker, I have a sneaking suspicion that “bubble of sound” means “annoy the people next to you on the subway with crappy audio coming from whatever crappy speaker they could fit into it”.
I don’t really see the advantage of this over a smartwatch. The latter has a proper display, stock Bluetooth, and a scrolling interface that’s actually intuitive. The hand scrolling business seems super counterintuitive.
Meaningless buzz words to pad the product description. “User serviceable” or “reserviceable” would work just as well, but it wouldn’t get the buzzword clicks.
The way I look at it, is: this is the 1st Gen of a product that COULD evolve, if it werent for so many bad decisions or suppositions on how this will work for them.
$700 price tag is not as bad, but they are pricing it this high, because they need money to continue to version 2.0 of the product. The $24/mo is the death nail. $10/mo would be reasonable. They should have partnered with T-Mobile and have them foot the bill for the online service. or just use the phone's tethered connection to it via a phone app.
I'm excited on one hand because if this survives this terrible launch it will only get better with more minituarization and better scoping, but on the other hand I think it will be vaporware before it reaches the end of next year at this pace.
So farewell and thanks for all the fish (that we could have had).
$700 price tag is not as bad, but they are pricing it this high, because they need money to continue to version 2.0 of the product. The $24/mo is the death nail. $10/mo would be reasonable. They should have partnered with T-Mobile and have them foot the bill for the online service. or just use the phone's tethered connection to it via a phone app.
I'm excited on one hand because if this survives this terrible launch it will only get better with more minituarization and better scoping, but on the other hand I think it will be vaporware before it reaches the end of next year at this pace.
So farewell and thanks for all the fish (that we could have had).
Oh totally agree with that but I was commenting more on the reliance on cell/wifi for directions component as I'd HOPE they would factor in for that scenario by allowing downloadable maps/directions.
EDIT: and if you need a full length movie for a subway ride, I am sorry for your commute.
And the pathetic thing about that is that Wolfram Alpha or any number of other knowledge engines would tell you the correct answer. Or they could have actually done the calculations, eclipses are super easy to calculate.
I’d be tempted to use it on people who listen to music on one of these things in public
I have no idea if their voice commands are processed locally but if not, downloadable maps might not even be possible.