Godammit, stop making electronic **** we don't need – and plastic **** we don't need come to that. The planet is teetering the brink of ecological apocalypse, and we simply keep making **** nobody needs. I despair.
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At a certain point, it will become rare and worth something to collectors.
This might have been the case in the past with novel gadgets, but it seems to me we live in a time of over-abundance of electronic gadgets that no one is going to remember or care about even two years from now, let alone in 30 years because it was just one of thousands and thousands of others
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Was this thing any more harebrained an idea than the $3500 scuba mask from Hell?
They won. Scammed the investors pocketing millions by promising a revolutionary product. It was an “iPhone killer”.
Elizabeth Theranos was the female Steve Jobs according to journalists.
Elizabeth Theranos was the female Steve Jobs according to journalists.
In hindsight, it’s kind of terrible how so many of us genuinely thought the Humane Pin and Rabbit R1 would have a first movers advantage over other yet-to-be-announced AI products, like Apple’s AI, and that ChatGPT could just be put in almost any kind of device and just instantly outperform any of our current voice assistants, and even free us from looking at our screens for all the tasks that AI would do for us.
I guess it’s going to be smartphones first and then maybe way down the line these kinds of “AI in a matchbox” products will become useable.
I still think it makes more sense to have it tethered to your smartphone as digital assistants, even less capable ones like Siri, are a thousand times more useful than the advanced ones simply because they have full access to on-device data and apps.
Like, setting an alarm, sending a message, making a call, launching an app might be a very simple task for a voice assistant, and arbitrary that it only works if you use specific trigger words. But I’d prefer that any day over an assistant that can’t do these simple things but can have a full conversation or look up any question on the Internet.
And on that note, Apple obviously takes the entire cake on the day that Siri can both do all the stuff that requires access to my iPhone and can look up anything on the Internet.
Rabbit and Humane were always DOA. How anyone invested anything substantial is beyond me.
The tech startup sphere and all the irrational optimism associated with it is beyond irrational and violently irresponsible.
I guess it’s going to be smartphones first and then maybe way down the line these kinds of “AI in a matchbox” products will become useable.
I still think it makes more sense to have it tethered to your smartphone as digital assistants, even less capable ones like Siri, are a thousand times more useful than the advanced ones simply because they have full access to on-device data and apps.
Like, setting an alarm, sending a message, making a call, launching an app might be a very simple task for a voice assistant, and arbitrary that it only works if you use specific trigger words. But I’d prefer that any day over an assistant that can’t do these simple things but can have a full conversation or look up any question on the Internet.
And on that note, Apple obviously takes the entire cake on the day that Siri can both do all the stuff that requires access to my iPhone and can look up anything on the Internet.
Rabbit and Humane were always DOA. How anyone invested anything substantial is beyond me.
The tech startup sphere and all the irrational optimism associated with it is beyond irrational and violently irresponsible.
Mind blowing that these scams keep fooling people.
I guess the average person is so deep inside their phones and so out of touch with physical reality that they literally think we can have anything today if we just throw enough millions at it now.
Explains a lot about how we actually have embarrassing projects like the HyperLoop up and running today.
Tech optimism on this level should have died yesterday.
Humane cannot refurbish returned AI Pins due to a technical limitation with the cellular connectivity, and returned units are simply e-waste at this point.
In this day and age that is simply unacceptable. That just tells me it's better not to buy this device at all, regardless of all its other shortcomings. Terrible design faux-pas.
Could you expand on this? I'm having a hard time envisaging the uses for it. What would such a product, if well implemented, do that couldn't be done better by something (like a watch) paired to a phone?
I could see it having niche applications in business where a hands-free device would be an advantage (medicine, package deliveries, retail, car rental returns, restaurant servers, etc).
Going after the general consumer market was a mistake. Especially at those prices. What was Product thinking?
Going after the general consumer market was a mistake. Especially at those prices. What was Product thinking?
Lots and lots of fancy charts where the arrow points up and to the right
What on Earth are you talking about? None of “us” thought the AI pin would succeed.