The Worst Product I've Ever Reviewed... For Now 

If you could completely replace your phone with it, that price would be acceptable

Plus a data plan right?

If it was a good idea, executed well with several days of battery life, a certain portion of people would justify the expense... but the concept is flawed because smartphones and smartwatches are conceptually better, much more useful and already exist, and for an affordable price.

​@@IemonandIime huge if

🤣😂

Now imagine it being used as an access point and authentication for nuclear launch codes

😂😂😂

Yup😂

lol

what baffles me the most is their audacity to charge 24$ per month for a product that you've already paid 700$ for.

I completely agree a few modifications and it’s perfect

This is exactly what I thought when he asked for the room description. Making this an accessibility device would give it some promise and space to grow the product.

Still doesn't justify its insane price

Or you could develop an app or software feature for the iphone. Because a phone already has a much better camera and you own one. I bet something like this already exists as well on phones.

it would be great for an accessibility device

yeah but that's the same with most devices even down to household appliances sometimes! I don't understand why but.....

All companies do that. It's a scam.

@@ForceFreeTrainergirl06 Depending on what color it is, whether it's metallic or gloss or has metal flake, etc, it really does cost more to paint. There's more coats needed for the different finishes, and time needed for those coats to off-gas. Especially in cars. Now in this case, $100 is fleecing you a bit, but I could see an extra $20-$50 being reasonable.

@@Pllayer064 Usually those colors are limited edition

@@McNasty43 Apple of all companies doesnt charge you for the different colors. Arguably a lot of the black, silver type style's look the same, but they do have colors as well..

and i guarantee most people are going to the website on their phone anyway

The goal is to be phone free, so they can't start it out connected to a phone and then take away connection later

If this was an app it wouldn't stand out from the 100, maybe 1000 other AI apps that simply wrap OpenAI/GPT. This is honestly genius from a product/marketing perspective. As an engineer, I have to hand it to those guys, they can get people interested in complete and utter bullshit.

@@hellowill I'm an engineer too, I'm baffled by the marketing over AI crap. Somehow they figured out how to sell boring statistics and tables of autocomplete as a fun toy and people liked it.

@@z50king29I feel like the Apple Watch could’ve done a better job at a cheaper price.

My thoughts exactly. I expected him to fair, and he was, but he also gave it so much more benefit of the doubt than I would have. He tried his best to meet it half way and the product just couldnt make it.

I just see people defending marquees from invisible haters

@@docmanhtn8345 I just found a few of them already in the comment. Maybe you're blind.

No some perma online twitter weirdos got upset. But they get upset about everything so who cares.

You can tell people who are upset didn't even watch it

Yeah i agree, the translation part seems very helpful.

I think the camera has some potentially great applications for vision impaired folk. Localized functions like these could be where a pin like this distinguishes itself.

Bro you can have Google translate in your phone ☠️

​@@ozymandias8523 Yeah I have google translate on my phone but that's like, ACTUALLY worse to use. Because your phone isn't ready to translate at all times you do other shit with that device. Having a singular device for just translating that's ALWAYS ready to be used would be far more useful to someone who can't speak english well.

@@Lagrangeify I think you and the other person in the comments who mentioned this are correct. Specialization for small devices like this could be a great way to get a foot in a smartphone dominated market, if it worked consistently, which it may.

ie, every EV built?

amen

LOL amen brother!

Yeah what about Tesla? All of that is promises yet tech freaks lap that shit up like it’s oxygen.

Great advice. I Could've used this 17 years ago . Would've saved me a lot in child support.

They're not going to fall. As long as there is a consumer base and with AI refining itself. People who buy this know exactly what they're getting. I think what needs to be called out are those who are way to quick to dismiss anything that isn't up to their expectations. It takes a certain type of person to value this product, as it is supposed to be a downgrade and something that can be improved on years down the line. Lots of people not only want to free themselves from the smartphone and doomscrolling... but also the online shopping, Uber and such apps that people are trying to get away from.

@@danielsilicon4993I agree, although this product is terrible now I have a feeling in 20 years it will be a very convenient device. If anything this bad review is giving it more eyes on it then ever. I think it’s the future

⁠@@danielsilicon4993just delete the apps then. paying $700 for an actual garbage level device is quite the opposite of freeing yourself

@@danielsilicon4993This company was already failing long before this review.

He would never take a video down, good too see the big RU-vidrs be brutally honest

Did you even watch the video?

@@necondaano need to imo

Bro only saw the title

@@sxrhad435 I’m going to

@@necondaaEvidently not and a lot of other creators are saying similar things now the embargo on this product has been released. It’s good but not worth $700 with a $21 a month fee.

Yes he did..

@@ClavinZKL Should people not call a product bad when its bad? We need honest reviews to know what to buy.

This is the 1st of its kind. Yes it will suck BUT.. reviews like these actually help the company. But let's see how his tech will evolve.

​@@ClavinZKLoh whatever. For 700 dollars you get: "It has potential for the future...maybe"

@@ClavinZKLFor the tech to evolve, the company needs funding. They need money, it’s fundamental to develop anything. So hurting their sales isn’t exactly gonna help.

I really hope they do.

Funny thing is you've never developed or ran any tech products apparently... A lot of income is put right back into development especially for startups and this model is needed. crowdfunding, etc. Money needs to come from somewhere to keep building.

I slightly disagree. I think first product of anything is to gage interest and see if there's even a market. There's no point of spending millions to release something that may or may not be successful. However, I do agree on it does need to be polished. Even if it showcasing some of the potential features

​@@BlueIsLeet that's called investing. you know investors who invest in startups? that's where the money comes from.

@@EmirhanYasdimaneventually it must come from customers though right?

@@BlueIsLeet I don't think most people develop or run tech products chief

People discovering him of TikTok lmao

No

Go away farmer

Why

Why does it matter lmao you just bored 😂

That's what I was thinking. Would be really useful for fully/partially blind people to locate objects and furniture in rooms they enter

If it was reliable, maybe. Anyone relying on this thing for actual help with sight issues is gonna end up in traffic though.Or at least with Frosted Flake marinara for dinner

I think this is the future for a device like this, with an affordable price and performances, obviously.

@@bigfroggy22 its not fast tho they will be doomed in a hurry lol

Also for people that need other kinds of assistance. If someone gets lost guardians could not only get the GPS position but also a live photo that could be handy to locate them. Also they could communicate with a guardian/real human assistant at any time without the barrier of picking up a phone.

I would worry that as soon as that company goes bust and stops billing you the $24 a month, almost all functionality will be gone.

@@KiwiCatherineJemmaok but the thing is that we already pay 25+ dollars a month on phone data, this pin will ideally be a replacement of phones.

And don't forget, if you want a different color that will be a light, breezy extra hundo

@@Fireboss4321 All Imma say to that is a GIANT _hell no_ .

⁠@@Fireboss4321thing is, where I’m in, there are multiple data service providers. So if a service provider goes bust, which is extremely unlikely given their position in the market, then you can simply switch to another provider and your phone will still be as functional. This product and its lifeline ties solely to one random company. If it dies or it stops providing the service, then that product is as good as gone. This is a far far cry from replacement to phones. It will take maybe another 10-20 years of innovative development for this to ever stand a chance.

Its pretty consistent with the other major reviewers i follow. Verge was pretty harsh as well but i think the most damning one is by mr mobile who very clearly is trying to love the product but just cannot.

Thought the same

He not just has the power to destroy a product, he has the power to destroy the company behind it. Like stocks are moving because of video uploads.

@@vu1cana The "I refuse to talk to you through this shit device" quote from Cogen was hilarious

When you see its power, yes its very bad. I felt uncomfortable when it was telling you exactly what your surrounding is. Very creepy!

i was thinking just replace that AI with google voice, connect it to your phone, make it plastic and remove subscription, it becomes 10X better. also remove that battery in the back which attaches magnetically that should solve half the heating problem..

Crazy that it wont connect to your phones data

I thought the worst part was if you pay for the service it doesn't even work

⁠@@Mister_Durdennot so much crazy…just an artificial barrier that makes them $. Most companies would rather sell you on a subscription than make an accessory that’s one and done sale. Very soon our phones will leapfrog these things.

I’m surprised they didn’t go public with the product with the soul plan of being aquired by google

Precisely lol

Technically your phone requires a subscription too, if you wnat to use it when not connected to Wi-Fi, it's just a subscription to a 3rd party telco

​@@davekussYes, but the pin also needs that. So, with the pin, you have two subscriptions as a base.

That’s what I’ve been saying for ages and everyone keeps touting “yea but it’s first gen”. It still needs to be useful. Keep the first gen in the lab then

Yep

​@bubblepaw-iw6mdexplain your logic

@bubblepaw-iw6md well why not just buy a samsung phone that is better than an apple phone and ALSO better than a pin that isn't even as good as apple actually. Can you play pvz in this thing? nope!

@bubblepaw-iw6mdlol spot the android loser.

@bubblepaw-iw6md lol which iphone user hurt you?

@bubblepaw-iw6mdAnd a rubber chicken is even cheaper. What's your point?

Add another $100 if you want to have a different colour.

AI Hype train🚂

People said the same about early mobile phones. Then a few years later we got smartphones and now people with landlines are fewer by the day. I don't think they've got the right form factor yet, but someday someone is going to find the first step to the end of smartphones, and it will be clunky and expensive at the start too.

​@@chrisblake4198exactly. This is a solid idea with bad execution, but it is the right step in the way of innovation. Somebody will get it right one day....

THATS INNOVATION! THATS BRAVE AND STUNNING!!! and a bunch of horseshit...

I think it’s the best use for this product!!

I absolutely thought the same. Take this pin, tweak it so that it doesn't require visual queues and movements, and then it is perfect for the visually impaired. And the translation feature is an extra bonus!

.... it would need a headphone jack

Yeah this is really the only valuable differentiator from a smartwatch as far as I can tell. But then again, phones can already do it as well, so it seems like a big expense just for that purpose.

true, but this is already a feature on many phones, especially iPhones. iOS has the ability to describe what is seen by the phone's cameras

Are there any AIs that are not in the cloud??, genuinely asking

@@Holof92 At the commercial level, not many. Google pixel phones have built in tensor cores that handle some AI loads. However you can build and run open source AI models on most consumer hardware if you wanted to.

@@Holof92 This totally depends on what you mean with 'AIs'. In general there are a shitton of AI features already in our mobile phones. Especially Apple has a high focus on running them locally on device. If you are talking about Language Models specifically, then not only in early beta phase. E.g. in the Google Pixel 8 Pro and the Samsung S24 will be Gemini nano available (which is an on device language model). Also Apple will most likely present something in that regard in the beginning of June at WWDC. Overall there is a lot of research going into making these LLMs smaller and more efficient in performance so we can move more powerful models onto devices.

@@Holof92Sure, stable diffusion is usually installed local and runs offline. There are many features of commercial software that are considered as "AI". In the field of audio production deezers spleeter stem extraction algorithm is widely integrated. And also stuff like Ozone relies on AI features. In foto editing there are also offline features. But AI is also a buzzword and there is not always a clear line if something is AI or another complex software algorithm, created without machine learning etc.

@@Holof92 There are plenty of different AI models, some like LLaMA are small enough to download and run locally. But smaller you go dumber it usually gets, so best AI will always be run on servers because you need a LOT of RAM to load big model.

$700*

Better yet, any smartphone from the last 20 years does what this stupid thing can do (and far better), for a fraction of the price.

@@evolicious*10 years

@@GetPhiledIn people read it as 700 dollars not dollars 700

Looks like a advanced version of life alert for older people. Thats the only group it may benefit.

Excellently stated!

Came from twitter?

I wouldn't say it's poor quality (and granted you weren't specifically saying this was), it's just... absolutely nothing but a proof of concept device. I can't imagine anyone who actually needs this, or would even materially benefit from it. It's interesting tech, and some of the concepts here could be very useful. But as a consumer-oriented item? uhhh... Who is this supposed to be for? So I don't know that this is even really meant to be a market hit. If I had to place a bet, I would assume this is designed to be, technically, a functional device. And it meets that goal. It allows them to register patents, develop point solutions that can be licensed to other manufacturers, and gives everyone something to add to their engineering portfolio.

@@whosenameisitanyway customer reviews are generally to inform other customers. I’m not saying they don’t have a product roadmap but there could be insights from the review that they may not have realized was as much of a concern (like lag time, inaccuracies, etc). For $700 plus a subscription, it should be just as useful as my mobile phone..

yes

Perdón, que significan las letras OP?

@@SeforagfOverpowered (it means they are too great, incredible)

@@Seforagf OP es el acrónimo de "Over Powered", es decir que algo es demasiado poderoso y no le existe competencia.

I think phones are the ideal design for an assistant device , just a flat all screen small device that will only get more powerful , with more powerful processors and cameras maybe in the future will have even more things like a powerful projector so you don't even need a laptop

@@adil.670 Wait until technology like Neuralink is normalized and you realize that that devices will soon just interface with our brains and send images to our eyes

100% spot on

In product design one of the first steps is creating fictional but realistic "personas", essentially forcing you to define your target market... I don't know what happened here for this product, they might've asked ChatGPT to create these personas.

I was thinking the exact same thing.

especially when reviewing tesla

Exactly! This is a great idea. It could be deployed with teams or workforces as well to enhance skills of workers, keep track of movements in warehouses, improve safety compliance, retrieve information from specific databases and local conditions (inventory, shipping status).

I was thinking law enforcement as well. They already have to wear body cams, something like this could act as a body cam plus add safety features like alerting dispatch if it detects shots fired, a crash, and real time gps. There’s potential in the right application.

Genius! Maybe if we give police these they won’t be idiots😊

@@thetoixhunterbro think police in general are idiots

Jarvis 😊

Trollolo

😂

Well, I mean they are a completely different category of vehicle so I believe they are still the worst there

Fiker has way more poteintial than this AI pin thing

Is fisker still breathing though? 🤔

😂😂

Still better than Mac Pro wheels

*an

HumaneAI: Are you humanly inhuman enough to use it?

@@xXChoccyMilkXx At least the wheels served their purpose...

people love to stir drama for clicks, none of this is even real.

The day it changes, is the day your under contract via sponsorship….

For me it was the title. The review itself was very fair, the title was a bit sensational

It's not that there's a debate. What's happened is, starting with Musk being treated as a super genius for a decade after claiming he'd colonize Mars, these tech bros have grown accustomed to being judged today based on the things they say they'll eventually be able to do at some unspecified future date. That's now starting to cease to happen.

@@joshuapowers4623 “Tesla cybertruck by 2020”😂

But they do it because there is enough people that don't care and still pay. Don't ask me why

Not just any subscription… a $288 per year subscription.. Sounds lovely.

I mean, CELARLY done by ex-apple employees.

They need subscription to collect your data

There is no way this is made for the average person.

Where's these comments I keep hearing about?

@@tylersmash7134 some twitter users (not regular folk), did not like this review for fucking reason, because it affected the company's sales and overall brand value too much, and he can't have so much influence on the industry due to the colour of his skin so they were pissed. Doesn't matter though, no real tech entusiasts were bothered in the least.

@@wotermelon_ if it's a garbage product then the company deserves to lose money.

@@wotermelon_ I was gonna say haha. Yeah some people get really butthurt for no reason. People who likely won’t even use the pin.

but then he fanboys over apple vision pro. Like vision pro is trash

Pepperidge Farm remembers.

@@DBRONCOSfanHeh, this boomer shot soda out of his nose just now, thanks, my sinuses have never been cleaner😂jk

Gather ‘round children…

Not really because TV is just a monthly subscription that is way too overpriced too.

Love the positive attitude here😂

Millions of dollars 😊

Literally wtf

There is a hype around a similar product called Rabbit. Its like a Humane pin with UI.

People invested in whatever Elizabeth Holmes was doing, and that product wasn't even possible.

I mean, whole electric car for 20 something grand, not bad I would say even if it slightly sucks.

@@zuzutm3391 oh yes, I agree.

😂😂

😅

Fisker? Hardly ever knew her.

So true

I feel like apple should've bought them. it could be a really good companion to siri.

This company is heavily funded by Microsoft who missed out on the whole smartphone thing.

@@wasteexpressionI bet Apple would see this as just a worse version of the Apple Watch

its actually started by ex apple employees

Yea I watched it

Company only going after MKBHD coz he got more subs and reach.

I was wondering if this was the same product!

yes!! lmfao I'm so glad someone else mentioned danny's video too

Marques is a legitimate threat to the success of this company. Danny never was. Danny making jokes at the expense of Silicon Valley bros coming up with goofy solutions to made-up problems isn’t poisoning the well of customers, they’re not watching his videos. Potential buyers are watching Marques, and his reviews are trusted for a reason.

I had the same thought. The camera being attached to your shirt would allow it to identify obstacles or items when shopping, give directions, read signs, etc while keeping a persons hands free. Otherwise the translate feature was the only other feature that seemed useful.

Exactly my first thought too, may a useful for the visually challenged but definitely not for the general public. A voice and projection interface is never going to be faster and especially more accurate than a touch display, vision is a primary human interface.

They've probably invested too much at this point to have it only cater to such a small demographic.

literally the plot line to the Kdrama Start-Up

what a great idea! They could just do away with the clumsy fist projector interaction thingy and just have it as an assistant so blind people could simply say "help me find the supermarket" and it could monitor everything and tell them "left here, walk 50 metres, right here" etc.

You have two of those battery things - so you need to swap the battery every 2 hours - and recharge every 4. If they can double that - problem solved. They could give you four batteries instead of two - but that would become a pain in the butt alarmingly quickly.

​@@SteveBakerIsHereunfortunately it's still a pain in the ass. Even if they double it, you're still swapping out every 4 hours. For $700 and then $24 a month I'd rather just use my phone, it does more and doesn't die anywhere near as fast lol

Can you please explain what “OP” stands for in the video??

Overpowered

​@@devonkennedy1386OP = Overpowered. It's typically a gaming term. "Phones are OP" means "Phones are extremely good."

Or even our phones have it this day. Like "hey, Siri" just does the job.

or by the smartwatch i already wear, or through carplay/android auto on the phone i already have

@musicfanBRA Welcome to the community. He's been doing this since he was a kid.

Spot on

Let him cook

This is an excellent point

That's exactly why don't ever send anyone multiple 60" of voice messages.

Or they will make free jazz audio

yeh you can squeeze your earbud and do 98% of what this thing does lol. What a fail of a product.

Yeah, but like, you know, ummm, Zen, man...

Or a new voice oriented suite of stuff in the Pixel Whatches (Dick Tracy style)

And private.

You could do this with a smartwatch too.

super hekkin random omgz

@@5GTrevorabsolute quirky chad sigma Kai Cenat skibidi toilet bleach my ball hair lolz

"What do you see?" "The Men in Black neuralizer, the iPhone 16, Tesla Cyber-Roadster SpaceX edition, and a McWhopper"

Can you imagine how many LTT store products Linus would have put in the room?

​@@tokyowave9370no dabu-dee-dabu-doubt

Exactly! For 19.99 I would consider trying that thing

For normal people yes, for someone extremely busy who doesn't want to use a phone all the time (getting a phone out is surprisingly slow and prone to distraction) you could probably sell these for a *lot* (if it was better).

@@maxhaughton1964 A lot sure, but 700 dollars is an insane amount no matter how good it is. That is like a flagship motorola phone or 1-2 generations back for an iphone or samsung. I could see up to 100 maybe if it was a perfect version of what they were trying for, itll simply never be worth the same as a phone

​@@maxhaughton1964 You can get a fairly decent smartwatch for a reasonable price that does connect to your phone and is even closer to you than that pin is. It has more versatility as well, basically lose the projector. I've never met an extremely busy person who was well off enough to buy one of these who didn't already own a far superior smartwatch.

You're kidding right? For the price of a lunch you could buy this to test it out, I think most people would

I don't think it is taking photos to train itself. Could it be taking photos to learn more about you, your life, your habits, your activities?

It likely phones home a lot and wireless charging would make it hot

Honestly the battery is just shit.

@@rakdurrre most likely recording audio, which can be automatically transcribed to text and used to train and improve their language model which seems to be having the most issues

​@@rakdurrre you are underestimating how much of a workload that is.

I mean it is somewhat still good publicity. I had never heard of the product. Now I have. Even though I might not want to buy the product, I might still tell my friends "oh, have you heard about that AI Pin", and they might buy it, or talk about it to someone else about it. I honestly think publicity is almost always good, and such, there is no bad publicity.

I would have loved it 15yrs ago!

​@danielmoerch4688 as someone who works in advertising, this is the worst thing to hear. Because THERE IS such a thing as BAD PUBLICITY. Majority of people aren't idiots. If something is really bad, people will warn other people, not talk casually about it. I know this because I literally wrote my thesis about it, specifically regarding Huawei and its US ban. Even though it's still available in most markets in Asia, in my country alone, it basically disappeared in a span of one or two years.

@@Tochi68As someone who’s worked in advertising for 10 years, I completely agree

The problem is that these conversation usually go like: "have you heard of the humane AI pin? It's so bad lmao"​ nobody will consider buying it if every conversation is about how bad it is and how much it will flop@@danielmoerch4688

That's a good thing, though. Those assistants are already clunky enough half the time without hallucinating everything.

Exactly and itd bsd at it

​@@haruyanto8085nice bunny

right, this is useless once that happens, becasue you can keep your phone in your pocket and get most of the functionality through a pair of earbuds or smart glasses. The hand gestures are gimmicky, it's much faster to type on tthe phone if you need a screen. I'd be willing to play with this at $100-$200 price-point with no subscription (pair with phone for data service). $700 + a sub, this product is DoA!

This.

All these things are built into smart phones by default. There is no need for an app either.

@@JustAFan444that too. Google and Siri already do this

Asimov and Kubrick are having the laugh of their lives. Even if they're both dead.

and yet to get to the practicality of the tech in the future, somoene had to iterate through all of this crap....so someone had to have bought into it in those respective universes.....

Meanwhile every executive that watched ready player one: "oh my god this looks like what everyone would want and not at all like a dystopia let's make it!"

Its not impractical its not well executed. Projector and camera should be all that is in the pin and make the main device something like a wristband or smartwatch and utilize the phone for things we would normally like messages.

they actually stole the Star Trek communicator

😂😂😂

I was gonna say anyone can just rip this off your shirt but who will with how bad it is. lol

Classic Icing joke, marvelous

No one is going to snatch that turd device. Hell, if they did they could have it easily because it is not trackable. LOL

Make it undesirable...hands down the best defense 😂

Def the biggest mistake

your phone ain't gonna do what a few thousand dollar GPU does in the cloud. They could have fit a Snapdragon whatever in the pin, just like in a phone, so you have the same processing power, but that ain't no GPT.

@@vhategThey could not fit a chip in that thing without destroying the battery life

Or, just make an app. Better yet, just wait till Google/Siri received AI improvements over the next year and this thing would be laughable at best. This device serves no purpose except for maybe the visually impaired, for that I can see a product like this being useful.

it should be faster. if you ever used chatgpt voice you know what i am talking about. chatgpt also runs on the cloud. i think they use gpt4 api so i am not sure whats the problem.

But how would they then get the juicy subscription money out of us

Go on then, what should they build? 😂

MAKE IT PLAY DOOM

Imagine an API that connects to your own personal layout of apps in that menu (where MKBHD rotates his hand), and you can choose what app to pull up, and you can customize it. I'd have it connect to spotify, a health app (which is connected to my phone to see steps and how far i've run), and who knows what else. The weather. Messages. Grocery list? I totally agree with Matt, the api/modding community would have a hay day. And for monetization, Humane could just make the modding api and keys which you have to pay for, so you get access to a very good base to do what you want. Further, they may not even need a subscription if we aren't using their AI features and doing it all local on our phones, because they need that money to pay for servers, power and all that computing power (which is hella expensive). As MKBHD said, they don't want to have their device supplement a phone and instead replace it, so they could still keep the old device with its subscription and Cloud computing but also give power to their consumers. Win win.

Ha! So bad actors would just write line of code and have it overheat and blow up on people's chests?? Too big of a risk