Wearable startup Humane has officially unveiled its first device, the ai Pin. For months, the company has been drip-feeding information, offering just a glimpse of the device, wielded by Naomi Campbell, no less, at Paris Fashion Week in October.
The ai Pin is a portable, pocket-sized ai assistant that can reportedly perform the tasks our current phones and voice assistants do, but without a screen, operating primarily through voice commands and , occasionally, a virtual screen projected on the user’s hand. It works independently of other devices, connected to its own phone network through T-Mobile, but on Humane’s own MVNO because that’s even more complicated.
The device will cost $700 and another $24 a month for unlimited talk, text, and data, and will ship in early 2024.
We’re still waiting for hands-on impressions and deeper demonstrations of the technology. I’m skeptical, and not just because it’s been a little over ten years since Google Glass attempted to exist.
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