This is the dumbest new gadget... 

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When I studied interaction design in 2018 we had one assignment where we were supposed to create a dystopian service or product. We created exactly Humane’s device without the laser projector, with a twist, you had to pay a huge sum do fully delete all your data.

Voice-controlled devices and software are just useless unless you're at home alone with nobody to disturb or you wanna turn on some lights while carrying stuff up the stairs... Why do you think Cortana flopped but text-input based Co-Pilot won't? People are surrounded by others and don't want everyone to know what they are doing

The Humane AI Pin does everything a smartphone can do, but worse every way.

Having to speak to an AI while in a public or near public setting feels like an introvert's worst nightmare.

Sony global shutter announcement not just change world of photographer . but entire camera and sensor industry

Imagine how you would look reading your hand in the subway lol, that thing is Dead on arrival more embarrassing than google glass

That AI pin looks like a Star Trek badge... one to beam up! :)

These ex-Apple employees are most certainly ex-Apple employees for a reason. To even THINK about this piece of plastic and metal even being able to replace a literal app on a phone let alone the phone itself is ridiculous and a whole new level of stupidity...

what no one has mentioned yet is the dynamic range of global shutters and inability to have a BSI design and what this means for high ISO photography. Base iso of the sony sensor already starts around ISO 200+ which tells you something about it's dynamic range... but if they can incorporate ai noise reduction then this would be a moot point...

Agreed. Make sure your chips are better than theirs instead of trying to block them from accessing the tech. That's how a fair market works

SUCH an excellent episode. I loved seeing the passion in your face and hearing the enthusiasm in your voice when talking about Sony’s new sensor. Good stuff!

I think they missed the mark by calling it something that replaces your phone. If I had it I’d want it to work with my phone, like a smart watch. That said, I could see a stand-alone screen-less device being used with a neural interface, if that ever becomes safe and practical.

So many cons mentioned but the biggest pro of the pin is that you won’t be holding a device in your hand all day scrolling and distracting yourself from your surroundings . More humane to me .

I still think watches are the superior form factor. Health sensors are something that I think should be more prevalent in tech so that's why I typically prefer watches rather than something like this. In my ideal little world most people would have cellular smartwatches as their daily drivers. If my Apple Watch Ultra could be set up completely independent from a phone, it would dramatically change my relationship with technology. I also think smartphones should become the next primary desktop PC for most people, many flagships and even mid-range phones are more than powerful enough for the regular person anyways so just let ALL of them be dockable like with DeX and let them utilize pass through power to not wear out the battery when docked. Just a couple of unrealistic ideas that I like to stew on.

Intel: aight i'll go big.little Media: time to go ultra big!

Regarding the global shutter image sensor, iirc it is also extremely useful for VR headset applications too! I forgot if it was this or some other global shutter sensor detection for inside-out headset tracking. Tho regardless, excited to see more global shutter sensors roll out :D

Humane concept sounded like a joke when i heard about them the first time 🙃

I personally think the US should've focused on making China more reliant on US technology rather than try to block them from it. Blocking will force China think outside the box on how they can catch up or even overtake the US. Putting China in a corner will actually force them to innovate and make their own technologies/work arounds. Case in point, Huawei

I like the idea behind the humane pin. If it helps me become more productive by not having the constant distraction of a screen, I'll be first in line to buy one. If it's just another dystopian gadget that spies on me and makes me more a slave to google, it goes in the trash

As a photographer I am obviously excited about the innovation of a global shutter sensor, but honestly, it won't really change anything for 90% of use cases, especially in stills photography. Only in edge cases will the average non sports photographer have any issue with a rolling shutter, which makes the trade off in terms of sensitivity, noise and resolution non appealing for most users. At least this early generation does not do anything for me at the end of the day, but the geek in my still is excited.

I consider that it should not compete against a cell phone but rather be an accessory. I imagine it in the work world that helps to see elements with which one works, providing advice and recognizing elements, and as a designer who recognizes what one sees and proposes proposals. that he sends to the cell phone, that he makes tours of architectural work or pays attention to construction details, providing solutions, or either as a lawyer or doctor where he can provide information about what he observes, serving as a small advisor.

The Humane AI pin kinda reminds me of the Star Trek comm badge. Except it's quite a bit more clunky and much larger. EDIT: Also, it kinda seems like this would be better if it were a Bluetooth-capable device and would run ChatGPT locally, and only use mobile data when absolutely needed. That way it could be made smaller. A simple combination of three buttons (one to turn on/off, one for reset, one for initiating communication), antennas, projector, battery, ultrasonic depth sensor (for sensing hand gestures), a microphone and a speaker would work - but without the need for such a powerful processor onboard (since most processing could be done by the connected Smartphone, including the streaming of audio sent to speaker, and the streaming of microphone input as audio to the Smartphone for processing). Could likely take up less space, and be more practical. Also, perhaps with a glove, it could be added to the back of the hand, similar to Babylon 5's "Earth Alliance Hand Link".

I think if the ai pin can be connected to your phone a bit like a smart watch, it would be a genius idea. It's like a watch, but the screen can be where you want. In the beginning, i think it's a hard fight against them because of technology, but the potential is infinitely higher.

I feel like this humane device competes with the smart watch segment without the camera 📸 option. it’s going to be a tough journey for them

Agree, this is such a terrible idea for a piece of hardware. So much money and talent behind this thing, too expensive, lame features (looking at a projection on my hand versus my screen that does video and pictures?) Chat GPT? Already have that... wow, this thing looks like a bad idea.

The Humane "product" just goes to show how insanely inefficient the shoulder-rubbing-private-corporate-capitalism actually is. Noone in their right mind should put any money into such a business - it's an obvious flop. The product itself is stupid and could be done by 1 person in a garage and yet some stupid/self-interested person gave them, most likely not their own but their company's money, for this project. I bet that if you looked really well under the covers it's most likely some kind of criminal negligence on the part the the "investor". Yet nobody looks, nobody asks questions and millions of dollars change hands just like that - because the founder(s) are cool to hang around and can pull up nice/funny stories that people at the top find entertaining. So gross. I hanged out a bit with that crowd and the amount of BS those people breath in and out is beyond anything I've ever seen. All the while they "make money" mostly because the credit rates have been ultra-low for the last few decades. There's SO MUCH cheap money in tech and so little progress compared to the spending. Not sure if that's going to change withing our lifetimes though.

$40 more per iphone at ~200 million iphones sold each year means a loss of ~8 *billion* dollars; that’s insane

The AI pin may seem lame but you have to give them credit for their innovation. It's a simple little thing that does quite a bit. I remember when beeper first came out and people had a similar opinion about those. They were phased out rather quickly with the advent of the cellphone, but it was still a cool new innovation at that time. I think the correlation between the two points to something even better to come soon. It's also worth noting that way too many people stare at their cell phones all day, this is an alternative to phone addicted souls.

looks interesting if they could minitaruze that pin it could be utilize as universal translator but that is just a start ,you could use it as neuralink tool you can atach anywhere on your body without necesseary to put an implant into your body (posibilities are just endless in civilian and military sector )

They want access to your eyes when the phone isn't in your pocket

@TheFridayCheckout apart from the pricing and the subscription model, I think the Humane pin is a refreshing change in terms of tech being screen free. I guess one branch out direction for tech to take is going screenless to actually engage with the real world more, but somehow people seem to want to be almost wedded to a screen. I agree this seems like a clip on ai assitant, but this is better than carrying around a clunky device that only seems to be getting bigger and heavier? Isn't that what technological design or ideation is about? to try taking things in a new direction instead of just progressively adding refreshes? I don't belong to the group that thinks the metaverse is the next way forward, and hence all things moving in that direction in terms of glasses, headsets etc.

no worries, they will shrink the Pin and implant it in the head, no need to type/talk because it receive input from the brain directly. no need screen or projector because it will use the eyes as camera and project the "screen" to the brain directly.

humane was secretive about this lmao

Chip wars is getting more & more insane the day goes on 🔥

Can't believed i hadn't subscribed, really informative!

Also, voice only devices will never be a thing in public. They’d have to pair with some type of screen (glasses, lenses, holograms or a watch). By having a combined experience of over 25 year Apple like them, they should know better about real world use of technology. They should have advertised this as an addition to your phone, not a replacement, simply because it can’t be a replacement at all as it was presented. The product isn’t bad, just bad bad bad marketing.

I always felt that "efficiency" cores weren't very much efficient at all

Thanks for yr update. In Seoul, Korea, right now, where I’ve seen four (4) Teslas in as many days and very, very few Samsung phones. iPhones everywhere and even Apple Pay in cafes. Strange…

Humane pin should position this device as only an accessibility device for people with disabilities and it might be a business.

i think the ultimate goal is to have this kind of tech implemented inside of you. elon is already working on the neuralink. once he can get all the kinks on that worked out, he might be able to pair these tech together

It's funny, because my HPC professor say about this being the era of ChatGPT (which is near enough Copilot), yet I flat out refuse to use it in my assignments.

That Humane company will crash like in 3 years mark my words

Humane clearly has a leadership problem if this "pin" is the result of so much investment and time. I can't imagine the company will be around much longer. For chips, more competition is great. I just don't think the markets and cost of creating chips can support this many variants. I figure this is a boom before a bust in 2-3 years.

The AI Pin seems a step backwards from a phone with a screen. Maybe the idea should be adapted as more of a police bodycam alternative or something (perhaps a vest, not just a pin). Maybe with an earpiece to replace radios, a police specific AI with laws and regulations, GPS, real-time bodycam upload, things like that. Just spitballing here... but I think that with some kind of central control unit at HQ, it could be pretty effective.

The Ai Pin will be a flop. It is not an alternative design to a smartphone, but to a smartwatch. You can see that from the size, the poor screen, a poor camera and probably a poor battery life. However, the biggest problem will be the existence of a camera in general. This means that the device cannot be used in safety-critical areas or in public spaces due to data protection. It is not for nothing that Google has scrapped its glasses.

Bruh, DSLR don't have a physical shutter. only the expensive ones have them for dust protection.

I really do think that this should be paired a phone especially an iPhone or any Apple products but to summarize this shouldn’t be a replacement for a phone .

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The marketing department fucked it up by calling it a "smartphone killer". They became too ambitious with that proposal. It would have been to advertise it as a complement of an smartphone. Yes, it doesn't sounds too glamorous or bombastic but at least you are not lying... At least this can serve a precedent to future products about what and what doesn't works.

Whoah. They've, more or less, taken off straps from Apple Watch and called it a day. All that secrecy for this.

There is no way the a9III's sensor will ever be in a phone

Why would I want to talk to my phone for everybody to hear? That’s why phones are so great, I can be discreet and fade in the background

When will they realize no one wants to speak to their phone in their day to day life?

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These aren’t designed for your everyday use. They are more designed for business purposes rather than for personal consumption.

I can't wait to see how people will steal that pin in central London

Efficient is nicer word for low performance (low clock speed, and low power consumption).

This is the best way to start the Weekend!

First startrek inspired automatic doors, then tablet computers, now we're finally up to the comms badge you touch and talk to.

When do u think the new sensor would actually show up in flagships ?

You have excellent translations in your graphic presentation

In case anyone else is wondering how much the new Sony a0III will cost, it will be about $6K for just the body.

For the RISC-V Issue: I guess they would (if the lawmakers' actions go through) need to adopt the Android / AOSP or Chrome / Chromium approach (open-sourcing the bare essentials, then everything else would be closed).

Just remember how Blackberry died. I think AI pin is the future.

230 millions dollars for Humane ??? Really, I wish this kind of money would be invested in scaling up MRAM manufacturing as it is a disruptive technology that would be so useful to enable new opportunities… but is as of yet badly lacking funding…

Most of risc-v chip designs are actually closed source. Thing that is open source is only instruction set, not an actual chip design

We really dont need all big core although its was just a size difference. The a55 vs a77 is a huge difference but the x4 and a710 effiency difference is minimal.

3:40 i saw the Ted talk and it was impressive but now.... Maybe in other setups it would work

6:32 oh they just invented the CCD...

3:54why do all these tech companies think we want voice control!?

oh no, the 15 pro costs 37$ more than 14. apple: cries in billions of R&D

The fact they can get all that money to build that pin in the middle of a recession shows the valley bubble is still not over

Maaannn I have some hype for the AI pin 😭it’a a tall ask, but imagine how cool it would be if it wooooorked

I can't wait for future smartphones (Pixel & iPhone Ultra) to use the new Sony sensor. 😎

OpenAI should have made a device similar to the "Nest "Hubs or the "Echo Shows" that runs a version of Chat GPT that you can talk to using a wake phrase like "Hey GPT". This would have been inordinately more useful than their stupid "Pin".

Basically he (re)invented the Star Trek communicator.

this AI pin is kind of anecdotal for NOT going with "because they are former Apple engineers..." mantra on principle. I mean .. it depends on what they did for Apple .. were they sorting the mail? were they programmers? were they advisors, call centre agents, janitors, designers, inventors? .. Also - just because they were good in one job does not mean they succeed in another ( e.g. Elon Musk, who was lucky buying Tesla .. for a while, but is utterly inept in everything else .. and everything else he touches turns to ash)

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Not all SiFive designs are open so it is possible to limit the close stuff they have

As far as i understand arm is was less Power consuming than x86

It's worth considering that even if the US gov just concentrated on helping their risc 5 companies to "do better", none of that would matter if those companies were then able to immediately turn around and freely sell/lisence all that tech to China. As far as I know, idea of the sanctions is not to stop China from ever getting to where the US is, but to delay them so the US can be at least a few steps ahead.

The Humane AI Pin looks like a first attempt of Star Trek's Comm Batch, not sure if that was the idea???

7:10 “World’s First” If you don’t include Apple’s iPhone series. DXOMark highlighted this is one of the recent iPhone reviews, noting that the iPhone is the only smartphone not to have the jelly effect on their camera.

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One problem with voice assistant is, that you only have 1 bandwidth of information to your brain. These are your eyes. You can read and skim text and images way faster that listen to information. Want an instant prove? Just listen to voice messages that are 5 minutes long compared to a written chat. This limits the response of the AI.

Yeah that was not a great product, but the R1 Rabbit is.

Finally I hear someone saying this . That pin is useless ! How much money for marketing did the team spend to create such a general hype ?

The ai pin product seems at least 5-10 years too early.

You will never go back to a bulky phone a new beginnings

Didn't CCD sensors lacked a rolling shutter effect? It required more power, but still. Not new, but better, I guess

All in all, I think it's an attempt to foist another unnecessary piece of junk on people that won't replace smartphones. The only alternative is lenses, glasses with augmented reality, or ( God forbid ! ) chips.

The next eclipse occurs on my birthday, according to that pin.

Screen-less is the future, regardless how the pin performed. The iPhone and all android phones will be non-existent in less than 5 years.

Olympus sounds best among all AI names, same with "Alexa" having best name, with bixby being worst

im wondering how much that pin will cost cuz at this point its just the same as a smart watch but with a camera except without a screen. Ofc no screen means more battery life but lets see how much this cost first

the lack of efficiency cores is really interesting to me

This is just the beginning! I want to try this little shite ,paired with those little hover drones when out mining !🔨⚡🙋 Keep that company in mind ,its going to get interesting!

I really thought they would sell it for max 200$ in which case it would have been cool minimalistic device. Come on, you can get a great smartphone or a tablet for 700$.

The big brains apparently have no idea what we “small brains” actually use our phones for 😂