AI Pin

Extracted Attributes

• Cost

  $700

• Type

  Wearable voice-operated virtual assistant device

• Purpose

  Smartphone replacement, daily assistant, reduce screen time

• Category

  Consumer electronics

• Developer

  Humane Inc.

• Key Features

  Voice-activated AI assistant, cellular phone, camera, speaker, motion sensors, green monochrome 720p 'Laser Ink' projector screen (projects onto hand), magnetically attaches to clothing, interacts with core system functions (contacts, emails, calendars), learns from user information

• Power Source

  Rear battery

• Initial Reception

  Poor/largely negative reviews

• Interaction Method

  Voice command, tap, laser ink display on palm

• Shipping Start Date

  2024-04

Timeline

• Humane Inc., the developer of the AI Pin, was founded by Imran Chaudhri and Bethany Bongiorno. (Source: Summary, Wikipedia)

  2018

• Humane introduced the AI Pin as a wearable device and mobile virtual assistant. (Source: Web Search)

  2023-11

• The AI Pin began shipping to customers. (Source: Summary, Wikipedia, Web Search)

  2024-04

• YouTuber Marquez Brownlee provided a harsh review of the AI Pin, contributing to its largely negative reception. (Source: Summary, Related Documents)

  2024-04

• The reception of the AI Pin led to broader discussions about the challenges of deep tech investing and building hardware wearables outside established ecosystems. (Source: Summary, Related Documents)

  2024-04

Humane Inc.

Humane Inc. (stylized as hu.ma.ne) was an American consumer electronics company founded in 2018 by Imran Chaudhri and Bethany Bongiorno. The company designed and developed the AI Pin, a wearable voice-operated virtual assistant device, which started shipping in April 2024 but received poor reviews.

Web Search Results

• Humane Inc. - Wikipedia

  The AI Pin is a wearable device consisting of two separate parts—the front processing units and the rear battery. These parts are meant to be attached magnetically, sandwiching the user's clothing at chest level. It is a voice-activated AI assistant and cellular phone, equipped with a camera, speaker, motion sensors, and green monochrome 720p "Laser Ink" projector screen that motion detects the user's hand to project onto, indicated by a green light. The user mostly interacts with the device [...] Humane Inc. (stylized as hu.ma.ne) was an American consumer electronics company founded in 2018 by Imran Chaudhri and Bethany Bongiorno. The company designed and developed the AI Pin, a wearable voice-operated virtual assistant device, which started shipping in April 2024 but received poor reviews. ## History [edit] [...] 8. ^ "This Week in AI: Open AI Disables Internet Browsing, Humane's first "Ai Pin" reveal, Japan's Education Ministry Releases AI Guidelines, and Wimbledon Picks up AI". niural. Archived from the original on April 18, 2024. Retrieved November 4, 2023. 9. ^ a b Dave, Paresh (November 9, 2023). "Humane's Ai Pin is a $700 Smartphone Alternative You Wear All Day". Wired. Archived from the original on May 1, 2024. Retrieved November 10, 2023.

• Will it Hold? UX Designer Reviews Humane's AI Pin - Infinum

  ## What sets the AI Pin apart? Humane’s AI Pin is a new kind of wearable device that introduces artificial intelligence into everyday life. It works as your personal AI assistant, offering features unavailable through standalone apps or assistants like Siri. This assistant interacts smoothly with core system functions, such as contacts, emails, and calendars. It learns from every piece of information you feed it, from birthdays to favorite meals, delivering a personalized approach. [...] Last November, the San Francisco startup founded by former Apple designers, Humane, introduced the AI Pin, a wearable device that acts as a mobile virtual assistant. The square device magnetically clips to your clothing or other surfaces and activates with a tap and voice command, or by displaying a laser ink display on your palm. [...] Humane’s AI Pin, scheduled for shipping in March, is pitched as a smartphone replacement and your daily assistant. It promises to seamlessly integrate itself into your life and help you get through the day while requiring no screen time consumption.

• The Reviews of the Humane Ai Pin are Already Obsolete.

  # The best AI product available… for now. Humane’s Ai Pin is the current reigning Best AI Assistant Ever. It’s useful, at hand, has improved dramatically with OTA updates & upstream model switching & regular use. There’s good reason to believe the Pin’s functionality will continue to improve, and that the product category is here to stay. [...] The trouble with inventing a product category is how much there is to explain and how few parallels there are to draw with the status quo. The automobile had to be a horseless carriage first. Other AI assistant devices do exist, none are wearable, none as natural. Comparing the Pin to the likes of the Rabbit R1, Siri, Alexa, Google Assistant, and other things available on a screen, the Humane Ai Pin is the standout, hands down, best overall AI assistant available on the market today. At your [...] Sure, you have access to the same information the Pin does on a variety of screens and devices. The Pin is like having someone else do it for you, taking small information gathering and info-exchanging orders from you, wherever you are, based on where you are (and who you are), usually much quicker than you can do it yourself. It does have downsides. Most of them are not functional. # The real downsides of the Ai Pin are social

• What the Ai Pin was really good at - Pixel Posts

  Taken from that lens, the Ai Pin is a very elaborate prototype of all the LLM capabilities today, it can search the web for you, it can organize your ideas, it can generate ‘grocery lists’, ‘todo-lists’ based on your interests, it has a lot of cool micro demos, yet it’s a terrible product. People who pick it up don’t know what to do with it, and when they do, it’s difficult to get it to work reliably. [...] At Figma’s conference Config last year, Imran Chaudhri (Humane’s Co-Founder) and their design lead George Kedenburg III took stage to talk about the Ai Pin. The presentation was enlightening for two aspects. First it showed that the people were still trying to position and understand their product. They seemed to think about it as a contextual computer back then. Second it showed that they are a group of “prototypers” who have somehow convinced themselves that their compelling prototypes of AI [...] As you can see above, the Ai Pin’s understanding of context, lends it naturally to being able to get input from and control IoT devices and services. I would love to be able to open apartment door with a tap on this device, or instruct it to turn on the lights when I walk into a particular room, being on my chest at all times, actually lends it to some really interesting spatial experiences; sadly the Pin never tapped into any of that. It’s communication with other objects in the physical world

• Humane's AI Pin Wants to Free You From Your Phone

  I wasn’t talking to a tech bro obsessed with the ketogenic diet. This was the Ai Pin, a $700 tiny computer featuring a virtual assistant pulling data from OpenAI (the research firm behind the ChatGPT chatbot), Google, Microsoft and others to answer questions and perform tasks. Subscribe to The Times to read as many articles as you like. A correction was made on April 11, 2024 : [...] Humane’s Ai Pin projected on the hand of the New York Times reporter Brian Chen. Skip to contentSkip to site index Tech Fix # This Artificially Intelligent Pin Wants to Free You From Your Phone The $700 Ai Pin, funded by OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Microsoft, can be helpful — until it struggles with tasks like doing math and crafting sandwich recipes. Humane’s Ai Pin projected on the hand of the New York Times reporter Brian Chen.Credit... Supported by SKIP ADVERTISEMENT By Brian X. Chen

• Instance Of

  Q16917685