The Worst Product I've Ever Reviewed... For Now
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- Опубліковано 27 кві 2024
- The Humane AI pin is... bad. Almost no one should buy it. Yet.
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0:00 What Is it?
2:30 The Hardware
4:26 What Does It Do?
8:14 The Review (It's Bad)
15:00 Smartphones are OP
21:20 A Victim of Its Future Ambition - Наука та технологія
$700 & a $24 subscription is total madness...
If you could completely replace your phone with it, that price would be acceptable
Plus a data plan right?
If it was a good idea, executed well with several days of battery life, a certain portion of people would justify the expense... but the concept is flawed because smartphones and smartwatches are conceptually better, much more useful and already exist, and for an affordable price.
@@IemonandIime huge if
🤣😂
Spot on, their ambition is full on Star Trek, their execution is pure Toy Story 😅
Now imagine it being used as an access point and authentication for nuclear launch codes
😂😂😂
Yup😂
lol
what baffles me the most is their audacity to charge 24$ per month for a product that you've already paid 700$ for.
I could see this being useful for blind people. Seriously. When he asked the pin to describe the room, or identify the car. The lack of screen does not matter for them. Great review. Reviewers are not cheerleaders. They are our trusted advisors. Thank you Marques.
I completely agree a few modifications and it’s perfect
This is exactly what I thought when he asked for the room description. Making this an accessibility device would give it some promise and space to grow the product.
Still doesn't justify its insane price
Or you could develop an app or software feature for the iphone. Because a phone already has a much better camera and you own one.
I bet something like this already exists as well on phones.
it would be great for an accessibility device
They should cut it down to just the translation feature and sell it for like $50. Have an option in a UFP logo shape.
Yeah i agree, the translation part seems very helpful.
I think the camera has some potentially great applications for vision impaired folk. Localized functions like these could be where a pin like this distinguishes itself.
Bro you can have Google translate in your phone ☠️
@@ozymandias8523 Yeah I have google translate on my phone but that's like, ACTUALLY worse to use. Because your phone isn't ready to translate at all times you do other shit with that device. Having a singular device for just translating that's ALWAYS ready to be used would be far more useful to someone who can't speak english well.
@@Lagrangeify I think you and the other person in the comments who mentioned this are correct. Specialization for small devices like this could be a great way to get a foot in a smartphone dominated market, if it worked consistently, which it may.
The lack of a mobile app is 100% by design, because if at any point you pulled out a phone to set up something on the pin, you would immediately realize that the phone could do anything the pin can do but better. They want you to forget you already have a better device.
and i guarantee most people are going to the website on their phone anyway
The goal is to be phone free, so they can't start it out connected to a phone and then take away connection later
If this was an app it wouldn't stand out from the 100, maybe 1000 other AI apps that simply wrap OpenAI/GPT.
This is honestly genius from a product/marketing perspective.
As an engineer, I have to hand it to those guys, they can get people interested in complete and utter bullshit.
@@hellowill I'm an engineer too, I'm baffled by the marketing over AI crap. Somehow they figured out how to sell boring statistics and tables of autocomplete as a fun toy and people liked it.
@@z50king29I feel like the Apple Watch could’ve done a better job at a cheaper price.
"Never buy a product based on the future promise of updates to it." That is great relationship advice.
ie, every EV built?
amen
LOL amen brother!
Yeah what about Tesla? All of that is promises yet tech freaks lap that shit up like it’s oxygen.
Great advice. I Could've used this 17 years ago . Would've saved me a lot in child support.
Honestly, it's criminal how they charge you $100 more for a color change
yeah but that's the same with most devices even down to household appliances sometimes! I don't understand why but.....
All companies do that. It's a scam.
@@ForceFreeTrainergirl06 Depending on what color it is, whether it's metallic or gloss or has metal flake, etc, it really does cost more to paint. There's more coats needed for the different finishes, and time needed for those coats to off-gas. Especially in cars. Now in this case, $100 is fleecing you a bit, but I could see an extra $20-$50 being reasonable.
This is why Marques is one of the best and why people trust him when it comes to his reviews. No BS, just honest review. Positives and negatives, if they are there he will tell you about them. Very good and informative video.
People got mad about this review? This was...kind. You went out of your way to not just trash the thing.
My thoughts exactly. I expected him to fair, and he was, but he also gave it so much more benefit of the doubt than I would have. He tried his best to meet it half way and the product just couldnt make it.
I just see people defending marquees from invisible haters
@@docmanhtn8345 I just found a few of them already in the comment. Maybe you're blind.
No some perma online twitter weirdos got upset. But they get upset about everything so who cares.
You can tell people who are upset didn't even watch it
"It costs Seven Hundred Dollars plus a subscription"
had to keep replaying that part
I would worry that as soon as that company goes bust and stops billing you the $24 a month, almost all functionality will be gone.
@@KiwiCatherineJemmaok but the thing is that we already pay 25+ dollars a month on phone data, this pin will ideally be a replacement of phones.
And don't forget, if you want a different color that will be a light, breezy extra hundo
@@Fireboss4321 All Imma say to that is a GIANT _hell no_ .
@@Fireboss4321thing is, where I’m in, there are multiple data service providers. So if a service provider goes bust, which is extremely unlikely given their position in the market, then you can simply switch to another provider and your phone will still be as functional.
This product and its lifeline ties solely to one random company. If it dies or it stops providing the service, then that product is as good as gone. This is a far far cry from replacement to phones. It will take maybe another 10-20 years of innovative development for this to ever stand a chance.
Such a great review! Your comment about 19:05 “the thing about a good assistant needs to know everything about you…”A goldmine of other insights for builders and great points made.
Thank you for your honesty and continued trusted advisory 🙌🏾
Please don't take this video down, I keep seeing pressure on you on Twitter but bad products should be called out. If a company actually fails after you said the product was bad, then it was going to fail on its own.
They're not going to fall. As long as there is a consumer base and with AI refining itself. People who buy this know exactly what they're getting. I think what needs to be called out are those who are way to quick to dismiss anything that isn't up to their expectations. It takes a certain type of person to value this product, as it is supposed to be a downgrade and something that can be improved on years down the line.
Lots of people not only want to free themselves from the smartphone and doomscrolling... but also the online shopping, Uber and such apps that people are trying to get away from.
@@danielsilicon4993I agree, although this product is terrible now I have a feeling in 20 years it will be a very convenient device. If anything this bad review is giving it more eyes on it then ever. I think it’s the future
@@danielsilicon4993just delete the apps then. paying $700 for an actual garbage level device is quite the opposite of freeing yourself
@@danielsilicon4993This company was already failing long before this review.
He would never take a video down, good too see the big UA-camrs be brutally honest
You didn't ruin this company. Their horrible product did.
Yes he did..
@@ClavinZKL Should people not call a product bad when its bad? We need honest reviews to know what to buy.
This is the 1st of its kind. Yes it will suck BUT.. reviews like these actually help the company. But let's see how his tech will evolve.
@@ClavinZKLoh whatever. For 700 dollars you get:
"It has potential for the future...maybe"
@@ClavinZKLFor the tech to evolve, the company needs funding. They need money, it’s fundamental to develop anything. So hurting their sales isn’t exactly gonna help.
Danny Gonzalez’s video from a month or so ago completely tore the device and company apart. He brought up a lot of the same points you did too, and he didn’t even have the device to give it a proper review.
You were waaay nicer than him🤣
With some tweaking, this does have great potential as some type of aid for folks that are blind or have really poor vision, but I doubt they’re gonna go in that direction with it 😒
I really hope they do.
So thankful for honest reviews and reviewers! Thank you for looking out for us ❤ continue to be real
If it wasn't for the laser display, I would have felt like this device was made for people with poor eyesight.
That's what I was thinking. Would be really useful for fully/partially blind people to locate objects and furniture in rooms they enter
If it was reliable, maybe. Anyone relying on this thing for actual help with sight issues is gonna end up in traffic though.Or at least with Frosted Flake marinara for dinner
I think this is the future for a device like this, with an affordable price and performances, obviously.
@@bigfroggy22 its not fast tho they will be doomed in a hurry lol
Also for people that need other kinds of assistance. If someone gets lost guardians could not only get the GPS position but also a live photo that could be handy to locate them. Also they could communicate with a guardian/real human assistant at any time without the barrier of picking up a phone.
"Never buy a product based on future promises" is a phrase I keep hearing more and more often in review videos. I need companies to stop shipping beta products to consumers. You don't need my today money for a tomorrow product.
Funny thing is you've never developed or ran any tech products apparently... A lot of income is put right back into development especially for startups and this model is needed. crowdfunding, etc. Money needs to come from somewhere to keep building.
I slightly disagree. I think first product of anything is to gage interest and see if there's even a market. There's no point of spending millions to release something that may or may not be successful.
However, I do agree on it does need to be polished. Even if it showcasing some of the potential features
@@BlueIsLeet that's called investing. you know investors who invest in startups? that's where the money comes from.
@@EmirhanYasdimaneventually it must come from customers though right?
@@BlueIsLeet I don't think most people develop or run tech products chief
This is why i follow you for YEARS.
you're a man of principle.
especially when reviewing tesla
I'm really glad you did a review of this pin. It is about what I expected from the original video advertising this product. Love your reviews. Always appreciate the good, the bad, and the ugly.
So basically, it does everything way worse than a $300 dollar phone while asking for a subscription on top of it?
Precisely lol
Technically your phone requires a subscription too, if you wnat to use it when not connected to Wi-Fi, it's just a subscription to a 3rd party telco
@@davekussYes, but the pin also needs that. So, with the pin, you have two subscriptions as a base.
That’s what I’ve been saying for ages and everyone keeps touting “yea but it’s first gen”. It still needs to be useful. Keep the first gen in the lab then
Yep
The worst thing about this is the $24 a month subscription without which the device is inoperable. It's basically a cell phone subscription which most people would already have. So you'd be paying twice for a phone service, and being held to ransom each month or face having a $700 piece of worthless aluminium lying in your drawer. You'd never be able to sell it on either.
i was thinking just replace that AI with google voice, connect it to your phone, make it plastic and remove subscription, it becomes 10X better. also remove that battery in the back which attaches magnetically that should solve half the heating problem..
Crazy that it wont connect to your phones data
I thought the worst part was if you pay for the service it doesn't even work
@@Mister_Durdennot so much crazy…just an artificial barrier that makes them $. Most companies would rather sell you on a subscription than make an accessory that’s one and done sale. Very soon our phones will leapfrog these things.
I’m surprised they didn’t go public with the product with the soul plan of being aquired by google
Oh - Hell no. $700 plus a $24 sub a month? So what, if you don't sub you can't use it? WTF? So a total of $988 and then every year I have to keep spending another $288 until the price goes up, I'm sure. So it does everything your phone does but worse?
I get we get phones and pay out the nose for them and then pay for our connection, but the phone has the internet, a phone, a camera, a calendar, a reminder, about 10 million apps you could use from tracking your blood sugar to making flight reservations, maps, geolocation and everything in between.
Wait! Can't you enable your Google Assistant on your phone and say "Remind me of blah, blah, blah in an hour" and it will do that and you don't have to click on anything on your phone or do I have a superphone?
Thank you for this review.
I really appreciate this honest and hopeful review. Hopefully the vendor can improve their product and their pricing model.
I don't remember ever watching Marques start a review by saying: "This thing is bad at almost everything it does basically all the time." He knows how much power he holds when it comes to make or break for a tech gadget, especially a new gadget from an unknown company. So the fact that he chose to say this tells me how bad this device really is.
Its pretty consistent with the other major reviewers i follow. Verge was pretty harsh as well but i think the most damning one is by mr mobile who very clearly is trying to love the product but just cannot.
Thought the same
He not just has the power to destroy a product, he has the power to destroy the company behind it. Like stocks are moving because of video uploads.
@@vu1cana The "I refuse to talk to you through this shit device" quote from Cogen was hilarious
When you see its power, yes its very bad. I felt uncomfortable when it was telling you exactly what your surrounding is. Very creepy!
That 'describe my environment' ability will be great for the visually impaired
I think it’s the best use for this product!!
I absolutely thought the same. Take this pin, tweak it so that it doesn't require visual queues and movements, and then it is perfect for the visually impaired. And the translation feature is an extra bonus!
.... it would need a headphone jack
Yeah this is really the only valuable differentiator from a smartwatch as far as I can tell. But then again, phones can already do it as well, so it seems like a big expense just for that purpose.
true, but this is already a feature on many phones, especially iPhones. iOS has the ability to describe what is seen by the phone's cameras
First time I watch a video by marques brownlee and I'm so impressed. He's so intelligent and articulate. Not aggressive, not trying to be funny or be a star - just a great communicator summarizing his views of the product in a balanced, calm and well-informed manner. I've become a fan.
@musicfanBRA Welcome to the community. He's been doing this since he was a kid.
A very decent and comprehensive review, taking into account usability, ecosystem, etc. Great work, and you've got a new subscriber!
Marques entering his villain era on main. Holy shit
Did you even watch the video?
@@necondaano need to imo
Bro only saw the title
@@sxrhad435 I’m going to
@@necondaaEvidently not and a lot of other creators are saying similar things now the embargo on this product has been released. It’s good but not worth $700 with a $21 a month fee.
People said he was being too harsh, but when you remember that this thing is $700 + a monthly data plan, it’s pivoting itself as a competitor to smart phones. And it completely gets bodied by smart phones
@bubblepaw-iw6mdexplain your logic
@bubblepaw-iw6md well why not just buy a samsung phone that is better than an apple phone and ALSO better than a pin that isn't even as good as apple actually. Can you play pvz in this thing? nope!
@bubblepaw-iw6mdlol spot the android loser.
@bubblepaw-iw6md lol which iphone user hurt you?
@bubblepaw-iw6mdAnd a rubber chicken is even cheaper. What's your point?
please never give up. stay true. I love your channel. its amazing on so many levels
Thank you for being honest in your reviews, despite the push back. Keep up the good work :)
Wait, wait, wait!?
They made a screen-less mobile phone, no physical buttons or controls and they are asking $700 for it plus almost $300 more per year if it's even gonna have any functionality...
Now that's some next level crazy!
Add another $100 if you want to have a different colour.
AI Hype train🚂
People said the same about early mobile phones. Then a few years later we got smartphones and now people with landlines are fewer by the day. I don't think they've got the right form factor yet, but someday someone is going to find the first step to the end of smartphones, and it will be clunky and expensive at the start too.
@@chrisblake4198exactly. This is a solid idea with bad execution, but it is the right step in the way of innovation. Somebody will get it right one day....
THATS INNOVATION! THATS BRAVE AND STUNNING!!!
and a bunch of horseshit...
The problem is, it's NOT an AI in a box. It's a receiver and transmitter in a box. Everything is done on their servers/cloud. So nothing is truly being processed locally.
Are there any AIs that are not in the cloud??, genuinely asking
@@Holof92 At the commercial level, not many. Google pixel phones have built in tensor cores that handle some AI loads.
However you can build and run open source AI models on most consumer hardware if you wanted to.
@@Holof92 This totally depends on what you mean with 'AIs'. In general there are a shitton of AI features already in our mobile phones. Especially Apple has a high focus on running them locally on device. If you are talking about Language Models specifically, then not only in early beta phase. E.g. in the Google Pixel 8 Pro and the Samsung S24 will be Gemini nano available (which is an on device language model). Also Apple will most likely present something in that regard in the beginning of June at WWDC. Overall there is a lot of research going into making these LLMs smaller and more efficient in performance so we can move more powerful models onto devices.
@@Holof92Sure, stable diffusion is usually installed local and runs offline. There are many features of commercial software that are considered as "AI". In the field of audio production deezers spleeter stem extraction algorithm is widely integrated. And also stuff like Ozone relies on AI features. In foto editing there are also offline features. But AI is also a buzzword and there is not always a clear line if something is AI or another complex software algorithm, created without machine learning etc.
@@Holof92 There are plenty of different AI models, some like LLaMA are small enough to download and run locally. But smaller you go dumber it usually gets, so best AI will always be run on servers because you need a LOT of RAM to load big model.
I think what this video really shows is we don't need all of these gimmicky tech products when we already have phones that can do everything these products can but better.
Marques can criticise non-visual UIs and for the most part, I agree with him. Except for one thing.
I'm not visually impaired but I've done some QA for accessibility on websites. Basically how well can you navigate with a screenreader while not looking at the screen.
The screenreader is not a perfect solution, not because websites aren't built very well for accessibility (although they're not) but because translating a visual UI into a sound is already a flawed concept to start with.
Using an Alexa with your eyes closed is vastly easier than using a computer + screenreader with your eyes closed. Your Google speaker or Alexa speaker doesn't translate a visual UI into sound because it wasn't using a visual UI in the first place.
And that's why I hope they continue to develope various devices that use a sound based UI from the ground up instead of awkwardly translating from one type of interface to another.
700$ and a subscription for a voice assistant and a slow ass experience is wild 😂😂
$700*
Better yet, any smartphone from the last 20 years does what this stupid thing can do (and far better), for a fraction of the price.
@@evolicious*10 years
@@GetPhiledIn people read it as 700 dollars not dollars 700
Looks like a advanced version of life alert for older people. Thats the only group it may benefit.
"I don't trust this thing to order laundry detergent." 😂 Haha what a epic burn.
😂😂
Still better than Mac Pro wheels
*an
HumaneAI: Are you humanly inhuman enough to use it?
@@xXChoccyMilkXx At least the wheels served their purpose...
These kind of reviews are why I follow Marques. Good job.
Thank you for an honest review. So refreshing to watch
You could have dunked on them so much harder, but you absolutely did not. So constructive criticism is damaging enough to "ruin a company" these days? No. Your pre-alpha product ruined your company.
As a consumer it’s important to have OPINIONS and well critiqued product reviews so consumers can manage their expectations. Companies are too comfortable putting out poor quality products and not getting honest feedback so innovation remains stagnant. Companies have no problem if you falsely misrepresent their products with praise & positive feedback but cry about the truthful negative feedback. Use the feedback to improve the products! Simple
Excellently stated!
Came from twitter?
I wouldn't say it's poor quality (and granted you weren't specifically saying this was), it's just... absolutely nothing but a proof of concept device. I can't imagine anyone who actually needs this, or would even materially benefit from it. It's interesting tech, and some of the concepts here could be very useful. But as a consumer-oriented item? uhhh... Who is this supposed to be for?
So I don't know that this is even really meant to be a market hit. If I had to place a bet, I would assume this is designed to be, technically, a functional device. And it meets that goal. It allows them to register patents, develop point solutions that can be licensed to other manufacturers, and gives everyone something to add to their engineering portfolio.
@@whosenameisitanyway customer reviews are generally to inform other customers. I’m not saying they don’t have a product roadmap but there could be insights from the review that they may not have realized was as much of a concern (like lag time, inaccuracies, etc). For $700 plus a subscription, it should be just as useful as my mobile phone..
yes
I cant wait to hear your review on the Rabbit R1. I'm actually excited for it but patiently waiting your review
Thanks for the honest review. I will definitely put your expertise on top of my list when i need a professional opinion
Fisker must be breathing a sigh of relief since they are no longer the worst product lmao
Trollolo
😂
Well, I mean they are a completely different category of vehicle so I believe they are still the worst there
Fiker has way more poteintial than this AI pin thing
Is fisker still breathing though? 🤔
Thanks Marques, this will go nicely in my Fisker.
I mean, whole electric car for 20 something grand, not bad I would say even if it slightly sucks.
@@zuzutm3391 oh yes, I agree.
😂😂
😅
Fisker? Hardly ever knew her.
The room describing part was really cool - like others have said if you had this specialised to people with sight issues or for people that need to measure things
Thank you for always being honest and giving the best and most detailed reviews of products we spend our hard earned money on. Don't let the haters ruin what you have worked so hard on, the trust we as subscribers have for you! You are the goat bro 👍
700 and a subscription...? its like companies never learn that people are tired of subscriptions and on expensive gadgets...
But they do it because there is enough people that don't care and still pay. Don't ask me why
Not just any subscription… a $288 per year subscription.. Sounds lovely.
I mean, CELARLY done by ex-apple employees.
They need subscription to collect your data
There is no way this is made for the average person.
Smartphones truly are OP lol. We kinda take them for granted, but the number of devices they replace and the number of things they can do is truly mind boggling.
Perdón, que significan las letras OP?
@@SeforagfOverpowered (it means they are too great, incredible)
@@Seforagf OP es el acrónimo de "Over Powered", es decir que algo es demasiado poderoso y no le existe competencia.
I think phones are the ideal design for an assistant device , just a flat all screen small device that will only get more powerful , with more powerful processors and cameras maybe in the future will have even more things like a powerful projector so you don't even need a laptop
@@adil.670 Wait until technology like Neuralink is normalized and you realize that that devices will soon just interface with our brains and send images to our eyes
Love how you objectively explained what it is and does, not just shot it down for how it implemented those things. Gotta say i love the idea, seems ahead of its time and just very convenient... yes a phone can do just what it does but the hands free - and still always on hand vibe it has just gets me; especially the projector.
It seems to me that it is comparable to how electric cars started... shitty but hey, the direction is kinda cool - and those improved real fast.
Tho it might just work better if it goes the route smartwatches take- being a phone addon
Tl:dr shitty now but i like the direction it might go
You did an amazing job. This review was not scathing it was gentle, the ethical thing is to protect consumers from predatory companies. I find it amazing that people are so programmed to go against their own interests and attack Marques for doing a great job. My channel is nowhere close to this channel but my responsibility is to my viewers not products that I sometimes review
Remember back in the day when you could buy a product and it didnt come with a monthly subscription? 😂😂
Pepperidge Farm remembers.
@@DBRONCOSfanHeh, this boomer shot soda out of his nose just now, thanks, my sinuses have never been cleaner😂jk
Gather ‘round children…
Not really because TV is just a monthly subscription that is way too overpriced too.
This would be a lot more useful if it wasn't designed as a consumer product, but as a companion for someone working with their hands needing very specific assistance that it could be set up to do natively.
Imagine a carpenter who could ask it for measurements or where they set their hammer, or for someone taking in a shipment, it could save the paperwork and double check it for any issues, etc. Devices like this need to be more specialized.
Exactly! This is a great idea. It could be deployed with teams or workforces as well to enhance skills of workers, keep track of movements in warehouses, improve safety compliance, retrieve information from specific databases and local conditions (inventory, shipping status).
I was thinking law enforcement as well. They already have to wear body cams, something like this could act as a body cam plus add safety features like alerting dispatch if it detects shots fired, a crash, and real time gps. There’s potential in the right application.
Genius! Maybe if we give police these they won’t be idiots😊
@@thetoixhunterbro think police in general are idiots
Jarvis 😊
I appreciate your keen observation of their "sleight of hand" (talking to conceal the long response gap and always wearing rigid fabric during product presentation). Hopefully they appreciate and consider this constructive feedback you're offering them!
Not sure why there is a debate here. You are a reviewer it’s your job to tell us when stuff is trash. The day you change is the day you become something else
people love to stir drama for clicks, none of this is even real.
The day it changes, is the day your under contract via sponsorship….
For me it was the title. The review itself was very fair, the title was a bit sensational
It's not that there's a debate. What's happened is, starting with Musk being treated as a super genius for a decade after claiming he'd colonize Mars, these tech bros have grown accustomed to being judged today based on the things they say they'll eventually be able to do at some unspecified future date. That's now starting to cease to happen.
@@joshuapowers4623 “Tesla cybertruck by 2020”😂
5:44 missed opportunity to put super random items in the room to have it unveil lol
super hekkin random omgz
@@5GTrevorabsolute quirky chad sigma Kai Cenat skibidi toilet bleach my ball hair lolz
"What do you see?"
"The Men in Black neuralizer, the iPhone 16, Tesla Cyber-Roadster SpaceX edition, and a McWhopper"
Can you imagine how many LTT store products Linus would have put in the room?
@@tokyowave9370no dabu-dee-dabu-doubt
The projector mini screen is a cool idea
Hello Marques. This was Concise and well executed. You were actually Humane in your review. Take care!
Well I was blown away by this. A less versatile smartwatch that requires constant internet access to work is already an insane pitch, how did it get to the point where they decided it needed a terrible camera and unreadable green projector? This could have honestly been a good product for the blind or visually impaired, but instead they made it prohibitively expensive.
For all their "human-focused" branding, this company seems incredibly cynical, and incredibly blind to what might actually benefit society. One of those things is cheaper products that assist the disabled.
100% spot on
In product design one of the first steps is creating fictional but realistic "personas", essentially forcing you to define your target market... I don't know what happened here for this product, they might've asked ChatGPT to create these personas.
I was thinking the exact same thing.
Bluetooth earbuds synced to your phone can do mostly the same things. Turn it into a similar wearable accessory, add some powerful speakers, with the AI assistant from your phone, and it's basically the same product. And you don't even need an expensive ass subscription!
yeh you can squeeze your earbud and do 98% of what this thing does lol. What a fail of a product.
Yeah, but like, you know, ummm, Zen, man...
Or a new voice oriented suite of stuff in the Pixel Whatches (Dick Tracy style)
And private.
You could do this with a smartwatch too.
I had considered buying one but taking into account the high price and the limitations I guess it is better to wait for new generations of this kind of wearable.
I don't think it's either this or a smartphone, though. They are distinct technologies for different uses.
You really don’t make “review videos” as much as that is the genre of content I can’t really define it as just that. You make informative, thought provoking, interesting content that just happens to have a product as the main focus.
This seems like a product that they designed, hoping they’d get bought out by Apple or Google, but neither company showed interest, so they kept going, hoping and praying they’d convince a larger company to give them their billions so they could walk away…until they had no more time and no choice but to deliver the product 🤣
So true
I feel like apple should've bought them. it could be a really good companion to siri.
This company is heavily funded by Microsoft who missed out on the whole smartphone thing.
@@wasteexpressionI bet Apple would see this as just a worse version of the Apple Watch
its actually started by ex apple employees
11:40 if its dying in 2 hours, with no screen, no (currently) active camera, no local processing, and constantly warm even though it shouldn't be processing anything... and the whole product is based around AI, that happens to be bad. where increasing the training data will improve AI performance...
you can be sure as hell that thing is recording EVERYTHING for more training data.
I would read the terms of service agreement on that thing ASAP
I don't think it is taking photos to train itself. Could it be taking photos to learn more about you, your life, your habits, your activities?
It likely phones home a lot and wireless charging would make it hot
Honestly the battery is just shit.
@@rakdurrre most likely recording audio, which can be automatically transcribed to text and used to train and improve their language model which seems to be having the most issues
@@rakdurrre you are underestimating how much of a workload that is.
Nice review. Subscribed for your honest review sir. Hats off to you
Very nice review and honest. Thank you 🙏🏽
There is a fundamental constraint being overlooked by the designers: audio is sequential, it is a very basic method of information transfer. We are much much better at taking in information visually, we can scan over a page looking for a particular phrase very quickly or get a quick understanding from diagrams and pictures, there is no audio equivalent to this.
Spot on
Let him cook
This is an excellent point
That's exactly why don't ever send anyone multiple 60" of voice messages.
Or they will make free jazz audio
Hey, hats off to the Humane leaders for convincing investors to get this idea off the ground! That was some serious salesmanship!
Love the positive attitude here😂
Millions of dollars 😊
Literally wtf
There is a hype around a similar product called Rabbit. Its like a Humane pin with UI.
People invested in whatever Elizabeth Holmes was doing, and that product wasn't even possible.
Ive been looking for alternative to not carry my phone around. This was one of my option but understanding its flaws really help me to hold back and acknowledge we are not at that level yet. Closest we are is the apple smart watch where it can connect to your phone and leave the phone at home while just carrying the watch. Great review Marquess! subscribed!
This review is 100 percent honest.. And I respect that
22:15 I love that the absolute best use scenario for this product could easily be done by a $30 digital voice recorder
Can you please explain what “OP” stands for in the video??
Overpowered
@@devonkennedy1386OP = Overpowered. It's typically a gaming term. "Phones are OP" means "Phones are extremely good."
Or even our phones have it this day. Like "hey, Siri" just does the job.
or by the smartwatch i already wear, or through carplay/android auto on the phone i already have
I don’t understand why people hate this review. Lots of people trashing on Marques for his review. He went out of his way to NOT completely rag on the pin, while also stating is many flaws. If I were in Marques’ shoes, I’d be absolutely destroying it. Figuratively, and MAYBE literally.
Where's these comments I keep hearing about?
@@tylersmash7134 some twitter users (not regular folk), did not like this review for fucking reason, because it affected the company's sales and overall brand value too much, and he can't have so much influence on the industry due to the colour of his skin so they were pissed.
Doesn't matter though, no real tech entusiasts were bothered in the least.
@@wotermelon_ if it's a garbage product then the company deserves to lose money.
@@wotermelon_ I was gonna say haha. Yeah some people get really butthurt for no reason. People who likely won’t even use the pin.
but then he fanboys over apple vision pro. Like vision pro is trash
NEVER STOP WITH THE HONEST REVIEWS MARQUES ❤
You did good! Thanks for the honest review! :) Great products are built on honest reviews. If the design team takes anything from it, it should be that these are all the ways that they can improve.
Companies: There's no such thing as bad publicity
Mkbhd:
I mean it is somewhat still good publicity. I had never heard of the product. Now I have. Even though I might not want to buy the product, I might still tell my friends "oh, have you heard about that AI Pin", and they might buy it, or talk about it to someone else about it. I honestly think publicity is almost always good, and such, there is no bad publicity.
I would have loved it 15yrs ago!
@danielmoerch4688 as someone who works in advertising, this is the worst thing to hear. Because THERE IS such a thing as BAD PUBLICITY. Majority of people aren't idiots. If something is really bad, people will warn other people, not talk casually about it. I know this because I literally wrote my thesis about it, specifically regarding Huawei and its US ban. Even though it's still available in most markets in Asia, in my country alone, it basically disappeared in a span of one or two years.
@@Tochi68As someone who’s worked in advertising for 10 years, I completely agree
The problem is that these conversation usually go like: "have you heard of the humane AI pin? It's so bad lmao" nobody will consider buying it if every conversation is about how bad it is and how much it will flop@@danielmoerch4688
You were unbelievably fair AND kind in this review. Danny Gonzalez did a video on this same product month ago and I never heard anyone say anything about that
Yea I watched it
Company only going after MKBHD coz he got more subs and reach.
I was wondering if this was the same product!
yes!! lmfao I'm so glad someone else mentioned danny's video too
Marques is a legitimate threat to the success of this company. Danny never was.
Danny making jokes at the expense of Silicon Valley bros coming up with goofy solutions to made-up problems isn’t poisoning the well of customers, they’re not watching his videos. Potential buyers are watching Marques, and his reviews are trusted for a reason.
I'm reminded of the Roav bolt with this thing. That is a car google assistant thing that basically just connects to your phone with bluetooth, and passess all the work to your phone, and just uses google assistant from your phone.
Its amazing. Why didn't they just do that here? the technology already exists. Hopefully someone just makes that at some point, it would probably be way smaller too
or I guess just use headphones
Keep doing what u do marques....honest review are the best
17:26 The fact that he opened google for Google Lens instead of using the circle to search feature just to show how slow the pin is, is just wild
Having to charge every 2 hours is INSANITY. Absolute deal breaker for me instantly. That’s not negotiable
You have two of those battery things - so you need to swap the battery every 2 hours - and recharge every 4. If they can double that - problem solved. They could give you four batteries instead of two - but that would become a pain in the butt alarmingly quickly.
@@SteveBakerIsHereunfortunately it's still a pain in the ass. Even if they double it, you're still swapping out every 4 hours. For $700 and then $24 a month I'd rather just use my phone, it does more and doesn't die anywhere near as fast lol
Loved the review. Curious what the photo behind you on the monitor is. Looks so familiar. Anyone know?
This thing looks like a modern version of a prototype "smart device" that I saw a while back. That prototype thing was a micro projector and a Raspberry Pi-sized custom PC that hung around the neck like a heavy convention badge. A demonstration showed it reviewing a product on a shelf while displaying prices at local stores and other info, while using the product as a screen for the projected data imagery.
As for the Humane AI Pin, I think a lower price point of maybe $200 and the $24 subscription could be better for those who can't or don't want to pay for a $500+ smart phone and $50+ cellular subscription.
They should pivot into making it a blind persons assistant. Add more features and price it slightly higher. I love the "Tell me wat you see feature"
I had the same thought. The camera being attached to your shirt would allow it to identify obstacles or items when shopping, give directions, read signs, etc while keeping a persons hands free.
Otherwise the translate feature was the only other feature that seemed useful.
Exactly my first thought too, may a useful for the visually challenged but definitely not for the general public. A voice and projection interface is never going to be faster and especially more accurate than a touch display, vision is a primary human interface.
They've probably invested too much at this point to have it only cater to such a small demographic.
literally the plot line to the Kdrama Start-Up
what a great idea! They could just do away with the clumsy fist projector interaction thingy and just have it as an assistant so blind people could simply say "help me find the supermarket" and it could monitor everything and tell them "left here, walk 50 metres, right here" etc.
If this product was $39.99 with no subscription fee, I'd still have to wonder if it was worth buying.
Exactly! For 19.99 I would consider trying that thing
For normal people yes, for someone extremely busy who doesn't want to use a phone all the time (getting a phone out is surprisingly slow and prone to distraction) you could probably sell these for a *lot* (if it was better).
@@maxhaughton1964 A lot sure, but 700 dollars is an insane amount no matter how good it is. That is like a flagship motorola phone or 1-2 generations back for an iphone or samsung. I could see up to 100 maybe if it was a perfect version of what they were trying for, itll simply never be worth the same as a phone
@@maxhaughton1964
You can get a fairly decent smartwatch for a reasonable price that does connect to your phone and is even closer to you than that pin is. It has more versatility as well, basically lose the projector.
I've never met an extremely busy person who was well off enough to buy one of these who didn't already own a far superior smartwatch.
You're kidding right? For the price of a lunch you could buy this to test it out, I think most people would
Thanks for reviewing products like this and saving your viewers from wasting their hard earned money. Greatly appreciate your work.
Did I understand correctly, that when putting in phone numbers or selecting contacts you can't just SAY the number/name out loud? You have to use the projector handwavy UI?
Tech like this makes you realize how impractical the cool futuristic stuff you see in movies actually is.
Asimov and Kubrick are having the laugh of their lives. Even if they're both dead.
and yet to get to the practicality of the tech in the future, somoene had to iterate through all of this crap....so someone had to have bought into it in those respective universes.....
Meanwhile every executive that watched ready player one: "oh my god this looks like what everyone would want and not at all like a dystopia let's make it!"
Its not impractical its not well executed. Projector and camera should be all that is in the pin and make the main device something like a wristband or smartwatch and utilize the phone for things we would normally like messages.
they actually stole the Star Trek communicator
Tony Stark: how did you solve the snatching problem
Stain: snatching problem?
😂😂😂
I was gonna say anyone can just rip this off your shirt but who will with how bad it is. lol
Classic Icing joke, marvelous
No one is going to snatch that turd device. Hell, if they did they could have it easily because it is not trackable. LOL
Make it undesirable...hands down the best defense 😂
I’m surprised anyone would buy a spyware like this.
I mean… this only exists because Siri, Alexa or google assistant doesn’t integrate with multi modal LLMs yet. It’s not a future product. It’s a custom box that runs chat gpt
That's a good thing, though. Those assistants are already clunky enough half the time without hallucinating everything.
Exactly and itd bsd at it
@@haruyanto8085nice bunny
right, this is useless once that happens, becasue you can keep your phone in your pocket and get most of the functionality through a pair of earbuds or smart glasses. The hand gestures are gimmicky, it's much faster to type on tthe phone if you need a screen. I'd be willing to play with this at $100-$200 price-point with no subscription (pair with phone for data service). $700 + a sub, this product is DoA!
Funnily enough, I feel its whole schtick is that it doesnt connect to your phone, but thats its biggest downfall. It could use your phones processing power instead of going to the cloud, itd know all that information about you to be a great assistant. But then they wouldn’t get to charge you a monthly fee that if you don't pay bricks your device.
EDIT: yeah maybe people are right about the cloud thing, may take longer locally on your phone. Still doesn’t excuse it not connecting to your phone to get to know you and be a better device right out the gate. This thing is DOA because it wants to be something that you phone isn’t but completely fails on 99% of the things it aims to offer
Def the biggest mistake
your phone ain't gonna do what a few thousand dollar GPU does in the cloud. They could have fit a Snapdragon whatever in the pin, just like in a phone, so you have the same processing power, but that ain't no GPT.
@@vhategThey could not fit a chip in that thing without destroying the battery life
Or, just make an app. Better yet, just wait till Google/Siri received AI improvements over the next year and this thing would be laughable at best.
This device serves no purpose except for maybe the visually impaired, for that I can see a product like this being useful.
it should be faster. if you ever used chatgpt voice you know what i am talking about. chatgpt also runs on the cloud. i think they use gpt4 api so i am not sure whats the problem.
Okay, I finally watched more of the review and finally there's a clip of this product where someone activates it. Ask the question and then you see it real time do the query and answer and how long it takes! It's been frustrating me in particular that every single rabbit r1 device keeps doing a cut at it, which considering how much lag there is on this device makes me wonder if like the rabbit takes like 12 seconds long or something.
Since the hardware sounds nice-ish... They should just open source the firmware and let anyone develop anything on it that they want to. I could imagine the open source community going nuts and making this thing pretty decent.
But how would they then get the juicy subscription money out of us
Go on then, what should they build? 😂
MAKE IT PLAY DOOM
Imagine an API that connects to your own personal layout of apps in that menu (where MKBHD rotates his hand), and you can choose what app to pull up, and you can customize it. I'd have it connect to spotify, a health app (which is connected to my phone to see steps and how far i've run), and who knows what else. The weather. Messages. Grocery list?
I totally agree with Matt, the api/modding community would have a hay day.
And for monetization, Humane could just make the modding api and keys which you have to pay for, so you get access to a very good base to do what you want. Further, they may not even need a subscription if we aren't using their AI features and doing it all local on our phones, because they need that money to pay for servers, power and all that computing power (which is hella expensive). As MKBHD said, they don't want to have their device supplement a phone and instead replace it, so they could still keep the old device with its subscription and Cloud computing but also give power to their consumers. Win win.
Ha! So bad actors would just write line of code and have it overheat and blow up on people's chests??
Too big of a risk
This feels like an evolution of body cameras for police, fire, ambulance and security rather than something for the general public.
The hospital near me wasted a ton of money on basically the same device, it’s a “hands-free” voice assistant worn in the same place cops wear their radios (near the lapel), that allows nurses and techs to all send messages or call each other, set up quick face-to-face meetings on the fly… as long as the English-language TTS model can understand e.g. an Indian RN’s pronunciation of an Ethiopian PCT’s first and last name or a Hispanic patient’s first + last name. They mostly hate the object and have to reissue the same command 2-4 times. Oh, and the product is from like 2018.
As someone who sold bodycams for a living, I couldn't agree less. This would be so distracting at best.
The only innovate thing they achieved were a clip on expandable battery. A typical bodycam lasts 8-12hrs. But clearly the product has a long way to go
@@gloryfvdes258 *innovative
Ya, when you have a far superior AI/screen/camera/internet in your phone, it begs the question "What's the purposes of this device?!"
It may have a niche application for law enforcement, perhaps best for visually challenged.
As an Industrial Design student, I learned a lot from this video. Amazing insight on product design and development! 👏👏👏
I see good application of this product if iterated well. It has applications in adventure sports, journalism, content creation, law enforcement and defence.
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No
Go away farmer
Why
Why does it matter lmao you just bored 😂
This product is a great example of someone inventing a problem to try and fix it instead of actually finding a problem in the real world that needs fixing
Maybe blind people would benefit from the surroundings thing? That's the only thing I can think about that would be useful
Well summarized
@@MrSolidBlakeGamingcan’t see the menu on ur hand….
Why dont you find those problems and fix it ?
Why are you here ?
@@gsaucesuan4639I agree. It's probably a good time to be an entrepreneur
One more thing , i think we can't use it some place.....like in the library , meeting room etc. that require silence .