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I've never heard of this thing, is it supposed to do what the analyze this picture or ID the song playing features of my phone already could do, or is there something novel I'm missing?
The sell is a screenless phone with an AI assistant
So pretty much one of those smart speaker things with a pin on it, for hundreds of $$$ and a subscription to boot? What a great idea...
I'd try one for $29.99, that's about it though.
If it was free and I just had to pay the subscription I'd think "Can't my phone already do all this?"
You phone doesn't have the low-res laser projector gimmick that is invisible in daylight, runs extremely hot and drains the battery in one hour
truth be told, the only reason I would be even remotely interested in the device is the stupid laser projector. Seems like that might be fun to play with.
Yes! I remember experiments with similar projectors and interfaces like this device going back at least as far as the early 2010s. Would be fun to mess with.
Tech tryna make Star Trek happen when we are still living in Threads (movie).
Bit late, isn't it? I had already forgotten all about it and I don't think I'm the only one.
This is still a thing?
It’s probably going to be a rare collectible in about 50 years. Right now, it’s a high risk investment.
Maybe if they make a watch with a camera cover and a laser that draws a little box around what it can see and it all runs locally, then I might be interested.
Mainly to identify plants and mushrooms.
Not a fan of the idea of everyone pointing AI powered cameras at me all the time, like with this weird pin or smart glasses.
Such products should have a legally mandated camera cover, microphone shutoff and a REALLY OBVIOUS tell to everyone around you if you are using the camera or mic.
Bonus points if it screams a really loud "PERVERT" alarm if you're doing something creepy.
If only that was true for smartphones too....
Mainly to identify plants and mushrooms.
Considering modern-day "AI" track records at this, the only thing I'd trust a device like that to do is massively increase poisoning deaths.
"But my phone said it would be OK" is a lousy epitaph!
They died doing what they loved. Placing their very life into the hands of techbro con artists.
At what price point would this device be useful? Seems like the sort of device that was made to allow the company to be bought by Google/Microsoft/Meta.
It'll probably be a brick in a few months, when the company goes bankrupt and the servers it relies on get shut down. So even getting it for free would be too expensive.
At what price point would this device be useful?
given that it's horribly bad at what it claims to do and was a fire risk? not even a zero point.
I’d need to be paid a non negligible amount to try and wring some speck of usefulness out of this thing.
Yeah that'd be cool if the opened it up and recreate it as a platform for people to mess around with it. Like a rPi or Arduino or something. Because in it's current form...pretty much useless. But you're right; they'd have to drop that price point significantly and incentivize people even if it were open.
Unfortunately the hardware is so closed that even themselves can't reset the software for refurbishing
https://www.theverge.com/2024/8/7/24211339/humane-ai-pin-more-daily-returns-than-sales
Once a Humane Pin is returned, the company has no way to refurbish it, sources with knowledge of the return process confirmed. The Pin becomes e-waste, and Humane doesn’t have the opportunity to reclaim the revenue by selling it again.
Jfc. Can't, or rather won't, refurbish? That's beyond stupid.