{"id":1201962,"date":"2023-11-10T16:56:32","date_gmt":"2023-11-10T21:56:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1201962"},"modified":"2023-11-10T16:56:32","modified_gmt":"2023-11-10T21:56:32","slug":"the-humane-ai-pin-is-a-bizarre-cross-between-google-glass-and-a-pager","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1201962","title":{"rendered":"The Humane AI Pin is a bizarre cross between Google Glass and a pager"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"rss-wrap\">\n<div><a name=\"page-1\" \/><\/div>\n<ul class=\"gallery shortcode-gallery gallery-wide\">\n<li>\n<div class=\"gallery-item-content\">\n<div class=\"gallery-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/10-980x551-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<p>\n            The Humane AI Pin. It has a magnetic back, so it sticks to your clothing like a name tag.                           [credit:<br \/>\n                              Humane                            ]\n                      <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Not since <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gaming\/2018\/08\/magic-leap-opens-orders-for-2300-creator-edition-ar-headset\/\">Magic Leap<\/a> has a &#8220;next-generation&#8221; hardware company been so hyped while showing so little. Everyone in the tech world has been freaking out about this new pocket protector thing that wants to &#8220;replace your smartphone.&#8221; It&#8217;s called the &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/hu.ma.ne\/\">Humane AI Pin<\/a>.&#8221; As far as we can tell, it&#8217;s a $700 screenless voice assistant box and, like all smartphone-ish devices released in the last 10 years, it has some AI in it. It&#8217;s as if Google Glass had a baby with a pager from the 1990s.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a voice assistant box, so that means it has a microphone and speaker. There&#8217;s no hot word, and it&#8217;s not always listening, so you&#8217;ll be pressing a button to speak to it, and you&#8217;ll get a response back. There&#8217;s also a camera, and because you&#8217;re expected to mount this on your clothing at chest level via a magnetic back piece, you&#8217;ll be <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2014\/02\/what-google-glass-needs-to-maybe-succeed-in-society\/\">creepily pointing a camera<\/a> at everyone the whole time you&#8217;re using it. It claims to be &#8220;screenless,&#8221; but it has a pretty cool 720p laser projection system that seems to function as a fine monochrome screen that projects a smartwatch-like UI onto your hand. It shows some super basic UI elements, like a circular media player or a scrolling wall of text. A few hand gestures, like tapping your fingers together, will let you interact with it.<\/p>\n<p>Despite claiming to be able to replace a smartphone, the Humane AI Pin is going back to the Dark Ages and not supporting <em>any<\/em> apps. We&#8217;ve seen so many devices live and die by their app ecosystems, and the matter-of-fact quote from the presentation was, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9HVejEB5uVk\">We don&#8217;t do apps<\/a>.&#8221; You&#8217;ll be locked into whatever features and services Humane has built into the <a href=\"https:\/\/hu.ma.ne\/jobs\/4090047004\">Android-based<\/a> &#8220;Cosmos&#8221; OS. So if you want to play music, it needs to be from Tidal, a service with<a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@cmiller002\/analysis-of-streaming-platform-tidal-5c79b318567e\"> 0\u20132 percent market share<\/a>, because that&#8217;s who the Humane people have partnered with. It&#8217;s unclear if there is any other third-party functionality other than that. Humane&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/hu.ma.ne\/aipin\/cosmos\">&#8220;Cosmos&#8221; page<\/a> shows logos for Slack and then logos from Microsoft and Google, which could mean anything.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1982491#p3\">Read 21 remaining paragraphs<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1982491&amp;comments=1\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Ars Technica &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1982491\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Humane AI Pin is a bizarre cross between Google Glass and a pager<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Humane AI Pin. It has a magnetic back, so it sticks to your clothing like a name tag. [credit: Humane ] Not since Magic Leap has a &#8220;next-generation&#8221; hardware company been so hyped while showing so little. 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