After months of hype, Humane, a San Francisco-based artificial intelligence company, on Thursday launched its first product: the AI Pin, a digital personal assistant housed in a tiny, square-shaped piece of hardware.
Oh god, not this shit again. There was a scam Kickstarter campaign years ago that claimed it would project an entire phone screen on your arm and it was just comically stupid.
There’s a reason all photos are done in dim lighting, because this dumbass idea can’t work in the slightest daylight and you would have to hold your hand in the perfect position in which the projection is focused.
This is just tech media further advertising scams and products that have zero viability.
It does look similar to the kind of green laser pointer that people use in stadiums to mess with players from long distances, which is a far cry from the color phone screen on forearm scam.
I mean, not to defend this project because I think it’s still a fail, but that’s not what the primary interface of this is. It’s voice. The idea is it doesn’t need a screen at all and most is done via voice/response. The projector is a side feature
I say strip it all down to a sleek collar pin that vibrates, and has directional audio so only the user can hear, but it’s not in their ear. Tap to answer calls, or whatever else can be all voice and audio.
For totally cyberpunk styling, do similar, but as some of those bone conducting headphones.
Wait till they learn that every phone already offers the same thing with any pair of wireless headphones, except the gimmicky projector that no one asked for.
This is like a toy for cosplayers. The reviews are going to be brutal.
The focus part can be done with adaptive lens and a camera, it’s not even very hard to do - higher end overhead projectors do have this sort of autofocus feature built in. The brightness part though is currently a show-stopper.
Oh god, not this shit again. There was a scam Kickstarter campaign years ago that claimed it would project an entire phone screen on your arm and it was just comically stupid.
Ah, the Cicret bracelet, that would magically project darker shades than the projection surface actually had.
Also what’s the point of replacing a device that can be operated with just one hand with a device that needs two hands to operate? Even if it works perfectly… why bother? What does that improve?
If this tech allowed you to project an interactive display into open space in front of you, that would actually be an improvement. Or even just projecting it onto a wall. But something that requires both hands to operate, is objectively worse than a smartphone.
Oh god, not this shit again. There was a scam Kickstarter campaign years ago that claimed it would project an entire phone screen on your arm and it was just comically stupid.
There’s a reason all photos are done in dim lighting, because this dumbass idea can’t work in the slightest daylight and you would have to hold your hand in the perfect position in which the projection is focused.
This is just tech media further advertising scams and products that have zero viability.
It does look similar to the kind of green laser pointer that people use in stadiums to mess with players from long distances, which is a far cry from the color phone screen on forearm scam.
I remember the Captain Disillusion videos on it, it was very informative
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Gteat now my head hurts from hitting this nail
I mean, not to defend this project because I think it’s still a fail, but that’s not what the primary interface of this is. It’s voice. The idea is it doesn’t need a screen at all and most is done via voice/response. The projector is a side feature
I say strip it all down to a sleek collar pin that vibrates, and has directional audio so only the user can hear, but it’s not in their ear. Tap to answer calls, or whatever else can be all voice and audio.
For totally cyberpunk styling, do similar, but as some of those bone conducting headphones.
Wait till they learn that every phone already offers the same thing with any pair of wireless headphones, except the gimmicky projector that no one asked for.
This is like a toy for cosplayers. The reviews are going to be brutal.
There won’t be any pre-release ones that aren’t paid for, that’s for sure.
The focus part can be done with adaptive lens and a camera, it’s not even very hard to do - higher end overhead projectors do have this sort of autofocus feature built in. The brightness part though is currently a show-stopper.
Circlet! Allegedly…
Ah, the Cicret bracelet, that would magically project darker shades than the projection surface actually had.
Ha! That’s it!
Also what’s the point of replacing a device that can be operated with just one hand with a device that needs two hands to operate? Even if it works perfectly… why bother? What does that improve?
If this tech allowed you to project an interactive display into open space in front of you, that would actually be an improvement. Or even just projecting it onto a wall. But something that requires both hands to operate, is objectively worse than a smartphone.