This looks even scarier than that TV/camera device by Facebook.
It’s powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon processor and uses a camera, depth, and motion sensors to track and record its surroundings. It has a built-in speaker, which Humane calls a “personic speaker,” and can connect to Bluetooth headphones.
Hell no. If a friend starts wearing a subscription-based body cam connected to “AI”, I’m going to cut them out of my life.
It also sounds so stupid as a concept. Why would I use this instead of a phone camera? The laser display sounds like a much worse equivalent to a tiny smartwatch screen. The only use case might be when doing sports/activities, but we’d need a much more robust device for that (and much faster response times for it to be useful)
Just to clarify:
The Pin isn’t always recording or even listening for a wake word, instead requiring you to manually activate it in some way. It has a “Trust Light,” which blinks on whenever the Pin is recording.
Might not make a difference for people as long as it’s pointing at them and could be recording, but you made it sound like it always is. I also don’t find it desirable in any way, especially with that subscription price tag.
I do get the idea of having a different device form factor for an AI device, but I don’t think we’re there yet for what AI can do. Still interesting through.
And what Facebook TV/camera device are you talking about? The Quest 3? Or Ray ban glasses?
So, it’s like the badge from Star Trek you can tap to activate in order to talk to your shipmates or the computer. Except without the…y’know…ability to access a teleporter or do anything remotely interesting or meaningful.
K.
Yea that’s fair, it doesn’t live stream everything back to its home base. I meant it more for the second bit you mentioned :)
Also for the Facebook TV, I think I mixed up the Facebook Portal (which you connect to your TV) with this “Free” TV that tracks you and shows you ads constantly:
Both are bad, but the second one looks worse
It’d be a lot easier to covertly record someone with a phone - those don’t have a flashing status light.
I honestly can’t see myself ever using something like this. Aside from any other considerations about the ethics of AI and how potentially creepy this device is… I’m a visual person. I don’t even use voice controls, or indeed the actual phone call option on my phone unless I have to, because I process the world better by looking at it. Having to control a device primarily by talking to it rather than interacting with it via a visual display is a deal breaker for me.
I’ve only tried to use voice commands once or twice. I usually run into issues like
- I’m in public / don’t want to bother those around me
- It doesn’t understand what I’m asking
- I miss one part of it and have to run through it again
It’s so much easier to press a button and read the information myself.
“Here’s what I found on the web for what time is it Siri”
“I searched Google to find ChatGPT, in order to ask it what time is it. The time is a continued sequence of existence and events that occurs in an apparently irreversible succession from the past, through the present, and into the future.”
Still not sure why I would want a worse smart phone.
I feel like the primary aim is to create a minimalist art piece first and a functional device as an afterthought. If you stop thinking of it as a phone, and think of it purely as an attempt at creating a status symbol, it all kind of makes sense.
This is a worse experience than a phone on every way I can think of. For a moment I thought maybe it could be a good solution for visually impaired people, but then I saw the laser projection screen. This seems doomed to be e-waste.
So is this a starving model covered in copper paint? Who is this person wearing this thing?
Somebody needs to help all those poor people find the rest of their shirts. The top half is missing!
I thought maybe it was the back of a plastic mannequin torso (you can see the shoulder blades), and wondered why no one wants to put this on a human, and why the mannequin was backwards…
T-Mobile
So it’s useless if I go on a road trip?