Dead Before Arrival is most accurate. This sounds so much like Circlet or any other number of out and out scam crowdfunded devices. I’d file this in the “it doesn’t exist until you can actually buy it” camp.
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Humane Debuts $700 AI Pin With 'Laser Ink Display'
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Is this thing just on speakerphone 24/7 everywhere you go? Sounds obnoxious as hell
Would be a non-starter for sure ESPECIALLY if I cannot have it speak those directions to me via bluetooth headphones because it might be really difficult to hear any spoken directions over the already cacophonous ambient noise where I live.
Mark Rober always says you are given a lot of latitude when working on special projects.
In other words, it’s a bit like 20% time at Google, only Google tends to throw stuff at the wall and release a lot of half baked (or even quarter or eighth baked) 20% time projects at the wall to see if they stick (this was especially true in the late 2000s and early 2010s). Apple is more than willing to axe projects that are quite far along if brass decides that the project doesn’t make sense. (Project Titan seems to have fallen under that umbrella.)
Is this some joke? I wouldn't buy that, looks like some minimalistic overheating prone stuff Jon Ive would've designed.
Yeah I think so. See how far a project can go before it makes no sense to continue. Allows for lateral thinking. Something Steve Jobs focussed on, and Tim Cook has continued. Let creatives drive the direction of Apple. It doesn’t always pay off, but when it does…. But they do need (financial) restraints. Otherwise you get…. "An AI Pin with a Laser Ink Display"
Don’t forget. The Apple Watch launched with no clear direction. It took a few cycles to narrow the focus.
This should be a $79 iPhone add on. No addition subscription, no voice plan, etc.
Just a piece of hardware that allows you to work better with your iPhone.
Just a piece of hardware that allows you to work better with your iPhone.
It means they will give you a hell of a deal if you buy the batteries by the gross.
Nah. It should, at the very most, be a subscription for an app. It’s a clunky device doing the job of a basic app.
Several years ago I worked at a mental health facility. It was impossible to distinguish between the clients talking to the voices in their heads and the staff talking to the voices in their BT earphones.
The director did get a nice laugh from my comment, “Working here gives a whole new meaning to the phrase ‘committed employees’,”.
Then don’t buy it. Your problem is solved. You’re welcome.
"Perpetual Power" simply means it's perpetually powered as long as you perpetually change the batteries. 😂
But would it not be useless without the battery which presumably would be left stuck inside the clothing? 😂
The last thing the world needs is yet more noise from people on their devices.
Morons who insist on using their phones on speaker at all times are bad enough, but this thing takes that even further.
Public transport is turning into a place where half the people are wearing noise cancelling headphones to block out the racket made by the other people who think everyone around them wants to hear a blast of TikTok every few seconds.
I remember legitimately thinking my boss was talking to himself one time when he was outside using them!
While I agree people being glued to screens is concerning, I don’t see how this product (nor probably any product) is a realistic solution. I talked about this in one of my earlier posts in this thread, but people who want a screen are going to continue buying screen devices. You can’t force them to buy the AI Pin, or something like the Lightphone (a limited function e-ink smartphone). So then who will buy these products that intentionally limit people’s screen Usage? People who already decided that they don’t want to be glued to screens. So the product isn’t solving the issue, it’s mainly just giving a different option for people for whom the issue probably wasn’t actually an issue.
The only way a product like the AI Pin might be a solution is if it was so good that people who were glued to screens were convinced that it gave them everything that a screen gave them plus more (it has to be better than their current device to replace it). But two issues with that—1) I believe AI technology is very far off to being close to replacing the need for screens, and may not be able to completely replace the need for screens ever. And 2) it may just replace one issue with another. Instead of constantly looking at and typing on their screen barely listening to the world, people may be constantly listening to and talking with AI barely looking at (and registering) the world.
My suspicion as well.
I see some advantages vs a smartwatch but not sure how valuable they will turn out to be.
The hands free camera is obviously useful, but you can’t see what’s in your frame or do any kind of zooming etc (but if good enough the AI could mitigate some of that), and there is the social problem of constantly pointing a camera at people.
Hands/eyes free interaction without wearing an earpiece is good, but again not sure how well it can isolate decent sound for the user, and most or a lot of the input is vocal which has social and privacy implications.
And I guess some people don’t like wearing watches.
But even granting assumptions, I don’t think these are advantageous enough for most people.
Concerning the complaints about the speaker system: it's compatible with Bluetooth earphones. Concerning the perpetually powered battery: it has a small internal battery to support the device between main battery swaps.
No, I'm not a shill, just clarifying some things which many here were whining about without doing a whit of research. Also, I'm not an early adopter, so won't be buying this device early enough ahead of the company's shuttering.
No, I'm not a shill, just clarifying some things which many here were whining about without doing a whit of research. Also, I'm not an early adopter, so won't be buying this device early enough ahead of the company's shuttering.