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Kuo: Jony Ive's Futuristic OpenAI Device Like a Neck-Worn iPod Shuffle
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I’m willing to bet they can simulate different kinds of noisy situations in testing rooms.
My hand is unapologetically raised. And I'm not in the camp that is wide open to an all-AI , all th time future. At all. But I am one who has always been interested in how we interact with our tools, technology, each other. From mouse, to trackpad, to touch, to voice, its long been a category of personal interest. So yeah... This has me energized about tech in a way I haven't felt since the run-up to the '07 iPhone (maybe the Vision Pro run-up was of similar excitement).
Regardless, I'm interested to see their vision for how they think we'll interface with tech moving forward.
The while thing feels apace out of apple's legendary playbook. Not firs to market (Rabbit R1, Humane AI Pin, etc.), but come in and redefine and own a market. We'll see.
Oh man I hate to break this to you but…iPod mentioned?!
I used to wear my iPod shuffle around my neck. I was probably the coolest kid at school.
I can see something like Meta's sunglasses being a useful third device since you're wearing them outside, the cameras are pointed in the direction you're looking, and results can be audio or displayed on the lens surface.
A necklace is going to swing as you walk, may be under a coat or something so any camera will be blocked, audio reception/response will be muted, and has no display capability itself so must rely on a phone or something with a screen, so why have a new device?
A necklace is going to swing as you walk, may be under a coat or something so any camera will be blocked, audio reception/response will be muted, and has no display capability itself so must rely on a phone or something with a screen, so why have a new device?
I still don't see what problem this solves though. I don't need my phone to be constantly monitoring my environment.
And if the device supposedly has always-on cameras, microphones, and access to AI servers (presumably using cellular signal since it's independent from other devices) in a small form factor, the battery isn't going to last more than an hour.
It’s amazing how many people take anything Kuo says as gospel. It’s one thing for him to occasionally be right because of a leaky supply chain associated with a huge hardware company like Apple. But a startup that isn’t shipping anything? Color me skeptical that Kuo has reliable sources.
Like smashing the damned thing on the pavement?
Seriously - the mere prospect of an always-on device could create havoc at many work settings in which confidentiality and privacy are issues (education, medicine, law, corporate R&D, etc.), let alone casual social settings (just waiting for the first case in which AI accidentally reveals an affair). Also, a low-profile always-on device with a camera is a particularly bad idea - an iStalk...
It doesn’t necessarily solve problems; it provides convenience. It could be like Microsoft’s Recall for the real world, fed as context into an LLM. Whatever people do with an LLM now, they won’t have to provide any explicit context that’s already implicit in their surroundings.
(That’s what I imagine as the ideal. I don’t expect it to actually work that well.)
Yes, I would expect the first models to have a limited runtime.
Oh I bet they can
Put two people in a sound proof room and you will hear all sorts
I do not understand Jony's obsession with getting rid of screens. What does he care if people love looking at screens, and why try to appoint yourself as someone with a mission to rid them from society? You're not my mom.
And on the other extreme, it seems a lot of people want to walk around with them on their face. Not just at home or to play a game, but all day long. Who raised you? Certainly not Jony.
Just make things practical and usable, and follow the basic rules of design, that form follows function, and forget about changing people's habits. You try to make us go to rehab, and we say no, no, no.
And on the other extreme, it seems a lot of people want to walk around with them on their face. Not just at home or to play a game, but all day long. Who raised you? Certainly not Jony.
Just make things practical and usable, and follow the basic rules of design, that form follows function, and forget about changing people's habits. You try to make us go to rehab, and we say no, no, no.
2 years away from mass production, there are no part orders and any schematics are subject to change - it’s nothing but guess work. He does NOT KNOW anything.
My guess is it would have an app. So if yo uneeded to look at something you could do that on your phone or computer.
To build 100 million units, as Altman claims they will, you need to start sourcing components from now.
It's a non-starter for me without a screen. I'm deaf so no screen==useless.
Even star trek: you talk to the computer and then the output is on a screen or a PADD.
Even star trek: you talk to the computer and then the output is on a screen or a PADD.
