The Humane Ai Pin is a Star Trek combadge for 2024. It’s a mobile phone designed to save us from our phones, a wearable computer meant to keep us in touch without putting a screen between us and the world. It’s a bold idea built on a concept that makes a ton of sense.
But it’s also arriving just as skepticism toward AI is building; tolerance for subscription-based gadgets is dropping … and more important than either of these? It just doesn’t do enough yet – and much of what it does, it doesn’t do all that well.
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00:00 The 32nd century is here today (sorta)
01:13 Fitting a phone into a pin
04:48 LASERS!
06:43 “Hello Computer” (Voice Interface)
08:39 Burying the Dread (AI)
12:45 Camera samples
14:38 Raw in the middle
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Hey folks! As promised in the video, including a few responses here from Humane co-founder Bethany Bongiorno:
MESSAGING:
"The messaging experience is definitely not full featured yet – and doesn't match your smartphone just yet given its maturity. We do have a good number of fixes coming very soon."
OVERHEATING / DROPPING CALLS AFTER 30 MIN:
"This should be hours. It can be impacted by thermal headroom at the start, other experiences running, laser usage during call and poor cellular connectivity. There are improvements here in the next release that will make where we are now much better."
GENERAL AI RESPONSE ACCURACY:
"Accuracy improvements will continue to be a priority and changes will be pushed to CosmOS every day and we will also be adding things like Agents in the next release which will expand capabilities of general web search in a way to help with some of these type of questions."
CELLULAR RECEPTION:
"The device’s antennas are built into the housing for optimal performance. That being said, the larger a device, the easier it is for the antenna to radiate, specifically at lower frequencies. The Ai Pin performs quite well, comparable to some smartphones in the mid and high band frequencies, and slightly worse than smartphones in low bands. We perform better than all smartwatches that are comparable in size that we measured."
GENERAL:
"We definitely know there are certain things that are not where we want them to be in 1.0, as with all first gen products, but we do have a lot of improvements that are getting pushed to Cosmos on the server every few days to improve them and have a lot of device side fixes and new features in our next release that we think will make things better. "
I love your optimism, but this thing is bad. Unless they have a very severe bug somewhere, the battery and reception issues will stay. Not having calendar support on launch is either insane or "brave". That being said, a device like this, which doesn't have any kind of display, would actually be amazing for visually impaired people. It would be pretty much perfect. But needs a damn calendar and actual messaging.
subscription for using device ? LOL
The voice used sounds like a sad Cindy Pom from the Youtube channel Newsthink, 😉 LOL, great review. Interesting, with a lot of issues but it's a first gen product so let's see how they improve in the future.
It’s cool AF 👀
First generation product, what do you expect 😂
I so want this to work, but current battery tech will have the same limitations that phones do, which drove screen size up in order to establish more space for bigger batteries.
That delay 😐
Glad you reviewed this and not me. And glad Humane is working with you to get the overheating issues resolved.
"I'm sorry Dave, I can't do that"……
Why not just make it run off your movement and or Heartbeat
Street swipers won't be swiping these "pins" cause owning one is sad
When Apple, Google and Samsung start or unveil their versions this device could be very good.
This will not replace a phone. A phone died everything, SO much better
This will fail so hard. 699 for a shitty phone without a screen but a shitty projector.
A smart watch has more use than this ai pin and probably that ai rabbit coming out soon
I more and more feel like I would like to see you in a Star Trek show, you just have a vibe that would work, I feel like
Is it good to have a foldable as your first phone just asking
Lmao this gadget is so useless
Who at Humane thought this product is even needed
I pre-ordered a new color e-reader. I am about 100x more excited for that than this electronic turdlet. An e-reader solves many problems. This stupid turdlet creates more problems than it ever hoped to solve. This is the difference between "old tech" and "new tech." This new tech is designed to take shareholder money, drum up hype with buzzword marketing, and accomplish absolutely nothing.