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I’m guessing that, unlike the Spotify Car Thing, there’s no conceivably useful application a jailbroken one of these could be repurposed for.
There are definitely things the Spotify Car Thing could've done.
It's a potato, sure, but there are still uses. Displaying some PC information, weather information, using it as a macro-pad (someone actually did that one)... or doing the thing it was designed to do: show some album art and the song you're playing, and giving play/pause, skip buttons.
Shit, even a desk clock would be better than nothing.
E: ah, I see you said unlike, not like. Never mind.
People have jailbroken the Car Thing and are using them to control home automation/media playback and display information.
Yeah, so they have some use
Yeah, we all know that. OP was saying that Humane Pin doesn't even have that capability.
That hand projector might be fun for cosplay shit. Give Adam Savage box of old ones for his shop.
As long as you're cosplaying indoors or at night. The thing isn't bright enough for daylight.
Not being able to fully trust the results from the Ai Pin's Ai Mic and Vision features (the latter is still in beta) is just one problem with this wearable computer.
That's the problem with ALL gen-AI!! They aren't knowledge databases. They are pattern generators. When will people get this through their skulls?
When they are accurately called "text generators" and not "AI"
But at this point so many people have been misled by it that it may not be possible to educate those that have already been misled just stop others from being misled.
I would wager that turning it into a clock that uses text to speech to tell the time when you tap the touchpad and the laser projector to see it visually, would be the only solution where it doesn't overheat instantly.
I think it relies on the server backend, which they're closing down, to do pretty much anything including TTS
Yeah, their "innovative AI operating system architecture" doesn't seem very innovative now.
True. The yield is too small for it to be useful as a bomb.
I guarantee this was their goal all along. Build up something to have a larger entity come through and buy the company. Wish I had thought of it but I'm not a fan of screwing over the user base.
So essentially the same business plan as 95% of all tech startups of the past quarter-century.
They wanted 1 BILLION, and they got $230 Million
Roughly 230 million more than I made in the same timeframe
They probably lost a ton of money developing it. I bet nobody got overly rich with this endeavor.
You made a dollar this last year?
Rounded to the closest million that actually checks out…
A dollar, a hundred thousand dollars, these are just rounding errors compared to $250 million.
Insane they got even that.
Released in April 2024; killed in February 2025.
I guess the buyer qualifies for a refund, I wonder if they would even want the device back
Hold on this might not be as bad as it sounds. How many sold? Like 5?
Did they really sold any? I'd think they all went to tech reviewers and influencers
I think anyone paying for this must have been mentally challenged.
I'm curious what's the financial outcome here for the customers? I don't remember what Humane's price model for these pins was, and none of these articles are discussing it. For example... Eh I'll just look it up.
Oh my god it was $500-$700 up front plus a $25 monthly fee. That's just horrible; will the customers be getting refunds? [Looks it up] Nope.
https://www.theverge.com/24126502/humane-ai-pin-review
https://support.humane.com/hc/en-us/articles/34243204841997-Ai-Pin-Consumers-FAQ
I sometimes think of "who bought these?" I mean, I'm a little bit of a data hoarder. I never want to lose those Google chats and emails I'll never look back on. I downloaded my Twitter data (that I'll never reference) before deleting my account. But what nerd mother fucker like me, has the money to pay hundreds of dollars on this, and a subscription fee, for a service to take data I'll never own?
If I had that kind of money to waste, I'd just use that extra monthly subscription money to buy media to fill up servers (that I bought with the cost of the Pin,) on my home network.
And I don't even have a home network or a house, but bet your ass I'd have those and a million other things before this became a remotely attractive option.
This is like Quibi. You see it and you can easily understand it on one, far-off, level... But here in reality I'm just left confused. "What were they thinking?"
It reminds me a bit of Garmin acquiring Pebble and discontinuing support. This does sound significantly worse though