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The Ai Pin is not a scam, and the story behind it-and the company, Humane-go way beyond the initial "negative reviews". Today, Krazy Ken takes you through Humane's history, the philosophy behind Ai Pin, the new developments since the product launched, and much more-all with a sprinkle of optimism, and a healthy dose of brutal honesty.
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00:00 Introduction
00:19 Imran and Bethany
03:06 Founding Humane / Investments
06:08 Ai Pin Tease and Reveal
10:14 Ai Pin Launch
11:44 Hardware and Software (LIGHTNING ROUND)
12:39 What Does Ai Pin Do?
14:09 Why is Ai Pin Failing?
15:30 The Good
16:12 The Bad
21:01 Ai Pin is Not a Scam
22:49 For Sale
23:43 Who is Ai Pin For?
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Company is trying to get brought (Samsung HP Dell Apple Lenovo Google Microsoft Amazon too name a few!) but are deemed over priced a real world price is closer to 15 too 35 million not around a billion dollars
It's kinda sad that "it's not a scam, it just sucks" actually is pretty much praise given just how many increasingly blatant scams there are in the tech industry.
Beginning to get more "normal" today... Release a product, but release it unfinished and overpromised, leaving initial buyers as beta testers.
ehhh the advertisting in compare to the price and what it actually can do =
it sucks and don't live up to what was promised aka its a scam then (sorry ken first time we disagree here its not as good as advertised and in the UK for example thats against tranding standard laws and is classed as defrauding aka scamming someone)
dont reward a fish for swimming
Your face is a scam
Especially the AI tech industry in particular
$25/mo subscription kills it all by itself.
But it includes the phone plan, but i agree 25 bucks a month is a lot
bingo
@@dambukarincasi9576 Everybody already has a phone plan. Nobody wants another one.
@@dambukarincasi9576wait it includes a plan I can use with my phone? Since this device would be handy but a phone would be needed alongside it to use in between events or classes.
Or is it a plan for the device only? Because that’s the issue. It needs to be paired with a phone and this thing costs more than my phone. If it were cheaper I would have considered it
It IS technically a phone data plan too but honestly I'd take a smartwatch instead. I mean eventually you'll HAVE to use an existing computer interface to even manage dealing with this subscription.
Cathode Ray Dude summed it up: they're not profitting by making anything we consumers can buy - they're profitting by making a business that another business can buy.
For $800 bucks plus $25 per month I will take the extra work to just pull my phone out of my pocket.
Working for a company where if you are honest you will be fired it means it’s a bad company.
I agree with you on both accounts.
You just described all corporate companies though.
A "good" company in this case will have to be NOT a company. It will HAVE to be a flat structure, an anarchist organization on its own scale.
Word!
I love the whole, "you dont need to take a phone out of your pocket, install an app, learn how to use it, blah blah blah", when their solution is "buy an entirely new product, set it up, pay monthly fees, learn how to use it" if it actually worked lol
You'd be shocked at just how many new products are a solution in search of a problem lol
@@Krugis As Seen On TV products have been doing that for decades.
@@cujoedaman Definitely, but as seen on TV products don't usually get millions in funding and actual venture backing. I guess the only real difference between As Seen On TV products vs modern bunk like Waterseer or AI Pin is that only one attracts idiots with big wallets
The owners do strike me as smug & arrogant so finding out their employees were ignored or even fired when raising concerns doesn't shock me.
A consequence of working at apple for so long, I suppose.
@@AltimaNEO Right! That's basically the "Steve Jobs special" right there.
@@AltimaNEO Or maybe that's why they picked Apple?
"I was upset at seeing children glued to smartphones. So instead they'll just be confused just trying to figure this thing out!"
Humane with the most transparent “Let’s sell high because our stock is about to plummet because our product is gonna flop,” move ever
Exactly. This feels like it was made "just good enough" to possibly entice a buyer and then that's it. They're going to get out with a golden parachute but their employees are on a timer with an axe hanging over their heads.
@@BewareTheLilyOfTheValley Yep. Opening this video with "This is not a scam" is borderline misinformation. It's CLEARLY a scam.
@@JamesR624 No, selling off the company so soon is scummy as all hell, but not an outright scam. The next buyer might indeed do their best to make this device amazing or maybe they use the tech or AI and repurpose it for something else. It's just very alarming that they're wanting to sell so soon.
@@BewareTheLilyOfTheValley Those employees at Humane better have their resumes up to date and started looking elsewhere for a job before the axe-man cometh for them.
@@Blur4strike The employees are doomed. A scam company on resume is a big no no
The big problem really is that voice is not a good way to interface with a computer, and you should only consider it if you have a disability that prevents you from using other options.
I've been a dev since the 80's and I think voice is a terrible way to interact with ANY electronics device, unless you are disabled.
I love having it as an option and I find it quite convenient, but it has to be A. Good and B. Not the only good or even primary interface.
Really the only place I see it as good option (if it works well) is a car. You just don't want to be looking for buttons or looking at screen when driving. Any other place... I simply don't get why would anyone use voice. It's usually not faster, it is invasive (u usually aren't alone, I don't need to hear you talking to your phone)... I really actually hate it.
I agree, I often don’t phrase Alexa questions well.
My mom loves voice control of set-top box for some reason, but personally I agree with you. If you can reach your remote control quickly, it's going to be *much* faster than voice.
They basically said "hey let's take a smartwatch, but pin it to your shirt and replace the easy-to-use touch screen with a laser projector that's unintuitive and doesn't work in the sun, then decouple it from smartphones so it's way less useful, more expensive, and drains its battery at a crazy rate because it has to do all the processing and cellular communication on its own!" Anyone with any sense could've seen it was a bad idea. There's no real use case for the device that isn't already filled by better devices. They could've just made an AI assistant app for smart watches or even their own smart watch with a special AI assistant button, but instead they got cocky and thought they could singlehandedly invent an entirely new form factor that would replace existing devices even though nobody asked for it.
Why would you invent a smartwatch with a dedicated assistant button, when that's already a thing?
To be fair, many smartwatches don't work great in sunlight either.
They should've just made a pocket smart watch because wrist watches are for ladies.
@@TheNightshadePrinceguess you carry around a pocket watch
I wouldn’t want a smart watch. I like the device itself and the projector but it needed to be paired with a phone for battery life and to be less expensive. It’s more expensive than my actual phone.
Wasn't the "Google Glass" supposed to do the same thing in 2013?
I think a more modern Google Glass would work far, far, far better than this for half the price. Just offload compute and stuff to a phone like a smart watch.
@@andrewmorris483 Even if the Glass had it's issues, the purpose felt obvious. But with the Ai Pin and Rabbit R1, fell like solutions to nonexistent problems.
If Apple was a dry riverbed, then Humane sounds like Cleveland's Cuyahoga River until the 1970s. That river was so polluted that it caught fire at least 13 times until it was finally cleaned up. I don't expect Humane to be rehabilitated.
_See the river that catches on fire!_
And so was born the forerunner of the communicator badge from Star Trek: The Next Generation. It would take 378 years before it became useful.
So true! Can you imagine using your ST:TNG comm badge in a ship-wide emergency to try and hail a fellow crew person...and the comm interjects, "By the way, there's a special on raktajino in 10-forward for the next 5 minutes. Shall I put in an order for you?"
The communicator badge is like that exactly because it's in a TV show; the actors can speak aloud what they're doing so the audience hears it. In the real world, the idea of crowds of people where half of them are talking loudly to their chest wristwatches is ridiculous on it's face.
@@sammoore2242 😆🤣 Yes! Imagine all the AI would be needed to throw out all the explosions, shouting and calamity so YOUR darned comm badge could understand and respond to YOU!😆🤣
Though it's probably not canon, I do remember a Star Trek novel (I think it was the Voyager edition of the "Captain's Table" series) having a character (Janeway, I think) actually talking directly to her com badge to get its date of manufacture, etc.
And given that the com badges handle not just direct communication, but translation as well (even for those who aren't wearing one), I can see these evolving into the com badge.
@@AustynSN Yes! Probably, AI and circuitry in the 24th century was/would be so advanced that ALL processing cane be/could be done on-chip. Or...would that be NO PROCESSING AT ALL on-chip? Did they/would they strike a good balance? Fascinating!
2 months from release to make one of Ken’s videos. That’s both an honor and a failure at the same time.
It's a scam on investors, not consumers.
Even if flawed, the product was made and partially delivered. I don't really feel sympathy for investors who seriously believed there was a demand for this. A real scam are things like "Theranos", where product and technology never existed.
I am shocked and amazed how anyone could expect it not to suck
How in the world was this idea pitched and accepted? "It's like a smart phone, but worse in literally every way possible."
Truly baffling people threw millions of dollars at this thing. What an unfortunate waste of raw materials that will just end up in peoples bottom drawers or landfills.
the idea wasn't to be "better than a smartphone," at least not in terms of functionality- the idea was to give you many of the benefits of technology without taking you out of your environment- i.e. walking around with your head down looking at your smartphone screen.
@@Tahngarthor there's apps for that already work with the smart phone.
They said, "want to lower your yearly taxable income"
if you talked with sales people level normies when they announced it, you would know the idea. they sold it as a device that would do whatever your imagination would want it to do. just have it on and you don't have to remember anything from the meetings, then get notes of them through the power of AI. it will remind you of your relevant meetings through power of ai and work as your personal assistant sending invites etc.
like thinking that it would do any of that is really dumb if you have any technical aptitude, but if you don't have then why wouldn't it be able to do all that with all that funding, it's the year of the aaaiiiiiii after all. and people thought that it would do that stuff, they didn't stop to think that if they had that technology why would they limit it to a device etc. it's not for anyone who thinks.
This is a textbook example of "the answer to a question nobody asked" or "a solution looking for a problem".
That’s something Steve Job said too.
Your wife "interrupting" your product tease TED Talk has to be the trifecta of insufferable tackiness.
Or it was a way to demonstrate an IRL situation where youre in the middle of doing something.
It seems like, before inventing any new human interface device, one must ask "Does this just do what a cellphone already does? If so, does it do those things demonstrably, unquestionably better?"
If the answer to those questions are YES and NO respectively, then it's time to step away.
I think that's where Apple stumbled with the Apple Watch at first, then learned how to make it a proper extension of the phone. The Watch offering real-time fitness information, working like a remote for the phone, being able to see where you're walking all without having to take out your phone, helped it find its place. In this case, the Watch was able to be reworked into "it does do everything the phone does, but it makes the UI better because it's always on display."
You say that, but I would answer Yes and No for smart watches but that seems to be a pretty lucrative segment.
@@Dipsoid you know, I would’ve said the same thing, until I actually got an Apple Watch. I’m not necessarily a massive fan of Apple, and I jokingly said for a while that the Apple Watch is a solution in search of a problem, but I have to say that I frequently use the Apple Watch on my day. It’s a lot easier for me to quickly text back someone without taking out my phone, or set a timer, or check my heart rate. Plus, it’s a watch. So there is that.
This thing always reminded me of a Kickstarter project. Something that sounds great in a pitch, but when you actually get it, you realise it's a complete nonstarter. Bascially the Ouya of AI, just with a lot more money burned.
i like that "kill stupid owner" feature, when you ask for HL3
Gabe Newell said that HL 2 switched to the "episisode modem" so "no fan will have to wait six years for the next release".
With HL 6 being released this year (or has it been released already?), I'm now looking forward to HL 7. I hope this one will be gold.
In other news, I strongly believe that talking industrial-strength bullshit should be punishable by law.
Doesnt matter how much money your throw at polishing a turd, it still remains a turd.
But it's so shiny 😁
You could roll it in glitter instead!
This speaks volumes, I would've guessed you'd have to wait like 7-10 years to make a video on the AI pin, but no, SAME YEAR IT WAS RELEASED.
I'm just imagining how many of these things are gonna wind up in the washer.
Honestly, i really can't fathom any practical use for this thing.
I doubt they sell more than 10k units.
Back in April, I saw someone on the subway with a Humane AI Pin and to this day, that guy was the only person I saw with that AI spec garbage on his chest. I wanted to laugh but I kept it to myself.
he was likely a YT reviewer reviewing the product rather than a consumer.
Another big issue is that, if the company closes, without the cloud based services, the AI Pin will cease working. And, at only "34.2 grams (1.2 ounces)", it won't even could be used as an expensive paperweight.
Yup. Reminds me of the Tiger NetJet from back in the day. You bought the hardware but every game it could play was online, so once the service shut down, you were left with a useless piece of plastic.
How did they screw up 'take a photo'? It's one of the ultimate spur of the moment hands free things people want to separate themselves from "oh, god, he's got his phone out for pictures" moments.
Ultimate dealbreaker.
I like the reminder on his phone... "return AI pin"
The product reminds me of watching an old scifi movie where they show something that was futuristic when the movie was made but looks dated now.
Star trek....
The lack of phone app was undoubtedly done because as soon as you have to reach for your phone to do something with the pin, you've negated the entire point of the pin, and reminded yourself that a superior product already exists and is in your hand.
As a standalone tech device, the pin was a failure. As a tech demo/stepping stone, it probably provided some useful data and development. We're a step closer to a Star Fleet Comm Badge.
It's amazing how these days you can create an AI startup, completely funded by VC, launch a failed product, and then sell the company for 1 billion.
Thanks for allowing me to assist in the research for this episode! For those wondering what the technical specifications are for the Ai Pin itself, here they are:
SoC: 2.1 GHz 8-core Snapdragon 720G ARMv8 processor (with a dedicated AI engine developed by QualComm) with 4 GB of RAM
eMMC: 32 GB of storage
Camera: 13-megapixel ultra-wide with a resolution of 4160 x 3120 pixels, 120-degree FOV (field-of-view), f/2.4 aperture, and 1080p @ 30 FPS video
Weight: 34.2 grams (1.2 ounces)
Height: 47.5 mm (1.87 inches)
Width: 44.5 mm (1.75 inches)
Thickness: 8.25 to 14.98 mm (0.325 to 0.59 inches)
Ah yes, putting a whole smartphone chip inside the very small wearable form factor. No wonder why this gets overheated so quickly and the battery only last a couple hours
Is the processor throttling due to the heat and lack of power? It would not surprise me.
800$ for 32gb and 4 gb ram?
Couldn't they...you know give more?
@@EldobelU They don't even needed this much (CPU and RAM) since it's almost all handled by cloud. But the engineers with the mind in "powerful" and "AI" made some dumb choices, apparently.
But we can't expect efficient software today, so it's fine.
Great episode. You should do the Rabbit r1 next since it's an actual scam lol
It's absolutely not a scam, it's just a shit product that warrants nothing more than an As Seen On TV infomercial and a
"Before I go through the bad things...."
_Pulls out stack of paper._
"Let me go over the good things."
_Pulls out single sticky note._
XD
I'm still getting unavoidable Twitter ads featuring stills from your channel with that trash ass desktop swamp cooler now that it's summer.
As for this particular device... this device cannot do anything that a smartphone cannot already do as well, just better. And yes, I understand the concept. A smartphone must be pulled out of the pocket, it is not fully voice controllable, etc. But that's something which can be fixed. There is no need to create a new standalone device. This device could as well have been a smartphone accessory. A mic, a speaker, a camera, a touch pad - all of this can already be connected to smartphones via Bluetooth. And by not having to take care of the network connection and most the data processing, the device also will require way less power, so it can last way longer on a battery charge. And as for software services, just write an app. This device is not really a competitor to an iPhone but rather a competitor to an Apple Watch.
It might have been better as a speaker, mic, camera and so on device. The fact that you could wear it all the time as a sort of body camera would be pretty cool too. I already have a smart watch. They make smart rings too. A smart glasses type device would also work along with smart headphones/earbuds.
Sooner or later we will get implants for mic, speaker, camera so that we do not need all of these devices. I seen something where a wearable contact prototypes are in the works now.
15:39 List of good things "reads post-it note"
freaking hilarious haha
I like the concept of the pin, in the sense that having a device that can use a laser to display simple things like time, or incoming calls. Paired with a Bluetooth headset, and that alone could be a neat replacement for much of what I use my phone for. The form factor is a novelty, and that novelty is the main edge over something like the lite phone.
As for ideas to help it be better in the future, a second camera, to create a stereoscopic image would help the laser self focus on your hand, and the added depth perception would make identification a bit easier. It would also make the device even more expensive, so.... Probably not the best option.
It's the battery, the short life of the battery that kills this product. It does too much from that cute bell sound to laser projector. All take power and this thing is small, too small.
great video ken! that guy sam you mentioned looks SO familiar, just can't put my finger on it.
have you installed and tried 1.1.4? a lot of the issues you / reviewers / early customers were having have been addressed. would love to hear your thoughts!
Thanks for watching! I want to try it. I'm just waiting for "overnight" to happen because I guess it only updates overnight while on the Charge Pad. 😅
I feel like if Humane got a license deal with Viacom/CBS, they probably would made a killing if the pin was designed like the Starfleet logo as seen on The Next Generation.
If the two finger gesture won't work just give it the one finger gesture
The early adopter base is gonna be small, the type of person to try out interesting tech is often also the type of person to not leave their house too often, and if you're already sitting at a computer it quickly becomes pointless
I really enjoy you’re channel & felt this review was some of your best work . Because it shows that you have good integrity .
in my area where it can get to 120F at the peak of the summer, that would mean there's like a month or two out of the year where this thing is completely unusable since it'd be overheating on idle.
To be fair, all modern electronics fail under similar circumstances. They're all built super small with minimal cooling and minimal space between heat generating components.
@@bluedistortions my thinkpad, though not happy, will at least continue trying to function in those conditions, and my phone is similar. like i dont expect it to run as fast or work perfectly, but it shouldn't be completely be shutting down...
One core issue with both the AI Pin and Rabbit was that those hawks jumped in when the core technology was still in its infancy, and nobody had any idea where things were going. Just a couple months after they failed, what Humane promised might be possible. Hell, the agent system Rabbit promised and never delivered on? Somebody in the open source AI community actually built it. It's not a clone because there was nothing to clone - he just looked at Rabbits promise, thought "that's a cool idea", and built something similar. Except the thing he built works, while Rabbit doesn't.
That half life 3 bit at the end was hilarious
Problem i see with this device. It has hinged everything on AI before that itself has reached maturity. While LLMs have wowed us last year, in practical application their inaccuracy is simply too lacking to render it viable as the basis of a commercial product or service. And that is something MANY of the gold-rushers are starting to learn the hard way. Humane included...
I don't agree. The device itself is bad. It should be, at best, a smartphone accessory. If the AI parts worked perfectly, it would be still be dumb compared to something a fraction of the price that reuses all the technology already in my pocket.
@@weekendrobot Yes and no.
The concept is as gimmicky as it can get and reeks of naivety in thinking people would be jumping at the bits for a Smartphone minus screen that costs more than most cause they thought installing a Snapdragon processor was a good idea.
But i can't ignore that if they went for the Accessory approach. They would have never gotten past a concept sketch. They managed to sell the pin as a luxurious stand-alone device and i know better than to ignore the boutique crowd. Manage to turn it into a statement and you can get away with being this expensive, just look at Apple which is established as a major source of inspiration behind this botched venture. But even that requires it to at the very least: function. And it didn't... cause AI sucks...
So i'd say we both are correct in a way. just in regards to different demographics.
@@Foxhood I can see your point. I agree that as an accessory, there is no company. Anyone can build an accessory that hooks into your phone and calls out to ChatGPT.
I fully expect we will see actually useful phone accessory versions of this concept come out in a few years by existing companies for a fraction of the price. No revolution, just evolution.
But I don't think even if the AI on this was perfect, this is a sellable boutique device. The display is terrible, the ergonomics are terrible, the battery life is terrible, it overheats, it's too heavy. If it was actually a decent device then I think you have a point. This device will not be saved by better software.
That’s the thing to stand any chance this would literally need to be the perfect version of what this might be one day. An AI assistant that can flawlessly do almost all the basic things I would want to do with my phone without me having to put in the effort. Even then I still think a smartphone with that AI assistant as an app with access to everything in my phone and also an actual screen would still be better which calls into question if this could ever be a standalone device.
14:20 Love the reimagining of Gamers Nexus's "Thanks Steve"
When someone says "This is NOT a scam", that's an immediate red flag that it IS INDEED a scam.
Waking up to this is so comforting.
You broke the algorithm with that last question!
As a pin owner and someone who rather likes it, I appreciated this review.
Most of what was said is on point but some of it is now dated and wrong since the 1.1.4 update this week.
- The pin really doesnt overheat anymore in normal usage. Im sure it still will at somepoimt but seems to take more than twice as long until it does.
- The battery is now great. I get about 6 hours per booster and the pin so get about 10-12 hours now before I have to swap the booster.
- Responses are getting faster now. They seem to be testing a new pipeline and I get surprised when the response is immediate. Being on cell slows it down compared to wifi.
Everything else he said is still accurate. The quiet speaker during translation is probably my biggest annoyance.
My biggest concern isnt really the pin but them trying to sell as it makes the future uncertain.
I’m gonna download this to watch on flight tomorrow
Thank you for a very balanced report on this product. A tribute to your professionalism in looking into multiple aspects for wide coverage of the topic. Keep up the good work!
AR Glasses is what I want. It's a shame Google Glasses went away. I would have been a proud Glasshole (it's legal to film in public without consent). Just think what they would have evolved into today.
"Tech companies treating paying customers like beta testers" sums up what's wrong with so much of tech right now
Exactly. A very big dedication. It always never perfect at the beginning. I pray and wish them a very huge success. I really wanna see this company succeed in every way.
Notice that the Good bar is minuscule to the Bad bar on the title bar.
Where?
@@rockpie.squashfsLook at the progress bar.
This was THE BEST ever review of the AI PIN. WOW. GREAT job! It was very honest and thorough! Amazing. And the very last line… about being like a teenager… it was spot on! It might survive all the downs and come back like a crazy good product after all, because the concept is GENIUS and the people behind it (although not great marketeers) seem to be very true to life and down to earth type of folks.
I was hoping this did a lot better on release than what this gave us. Thanks for the honest review and the humor.
Call me old fashioned, but I don't even want a computer that learns about me... To me a computer is a tool, I don't want a learning computer just as much as I don't want a learning hammer.
A computer is a tool that primarily works with information.
A hammer is a tool that is for physically hammering in something.
Of course I want my primary information tool to learn about me. I just don't want the drawbacks that come with that, such as others finding out stuff, or it misunderstanding, ...
I've heard of the AI pin but I always skipped paying attention. Watching the marketing you replayed I'm suddenly intrigued. While it may suck, I really like the "in the moment" idea. I really hope they can recover and execute the vision. I think it would work a lot better as a phone accessory (no new number, better battery life) than a standalone product.
Love the final seem where you added the sparks lol
This feels like a product ahead of its time. It's not going to live up to everything the devs wanted it to be, but I would not be surprised if, in a few years, we start to see products like this take off in a more polished form. Screens are always going to be useful, but there are definitely tasks that would be better suited to this. Personally I'd love to see a device like this used for real-time audio translation to help bridge language barriers. I work in customer service, and I would legit use a device that could translate conversations out loud multiple times a day. Yes, there are apps for it and they work ok, but I think something like this could be a faster and more intuitive solution
I remember seeing Imran in Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare in 2007, it's insane how far he's come.
been waiting for this
Last August, my phone fell out of my zipper pocket (I messed up and I guess I forgot to zip the pocket) while riding copperhead strike at carrowinds around 1pm. That was a feeling that SUCKED... But it didn't even cross my mind for a second to jump the fence to get it... I waited until close and the crew found it. Surprisingly only the case was slightly damaged.
It needs to be repurposed to pair with AR glasses to make them more lightweight and "glasses" like, basically filling in the scans and processing necessary for a good AR experience
Man it’s so good to see this channel finally blow up, been watching since the hildron days
The last spark had killing me!! 🤣🤣😂
This device is trying to solve a problem virtually no one has (yet). At least you can see that the team involved has worked for Apple, the logo, the aesthetics... have that Cupertino seal.
The classic "If I don't look at it, the problem won't exist" attitude.
Tbh I'd quite like a device similar in concept when having to work in casualty scenes or in an ambulance when needing to make contact but I've got gloves on.
"Hey Google, call Bob" "Hey Siri, send text I'll be late to wife". There, saved you 800.
That last bit was a nice touch
I really love my pin and hope to see it do well, it has taken me from being stuck at my desk researching to being able to compute anywhere. To be honest I’d be really sad without this device (I’ve been using it for the past month) I admit it’s a niche product but if you have ever had an assistant, you’d know sometimes your assistant makes mistakes. Atleast with the pin you can call it an idiot to its screen less face
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I feel the word “scam” gets thrown around so much that people don’t know what it means anymore.
If a product isn’t everything you wanted it to be, everything that the manufacturer wanted it to be, you weren’t scammed; you were disappointed.
This is the best summary of the ai pin and the history of the company! I like the company, and the idea of the product but it needs more years of work before an actual release
The "try again" moment reminded me of Squidward with the conch. You literally can't make this stuff up 😭 life really does imitate art
Great video .
Great video, very detailed background on the company which is interesting
That ending POP!
It wasn't supposed to be a scam for the unfortunate users who shelled out that absurd price tag, it would mostly do what little they claimed it could do. It was supposed to be a scam for whatever company bought them out after that.
I don’t see where it is today but where it will be tomorrow with good AI. This can be great for the minimalist, disabled or elderly. I could even see ditching the cell phone but pairing it with a tablet for when you need to get more involved with something.
Haha the ending caught me by surprise. The only people buying this or any other shenanigans (like "smart" glasses), are the people that are like "ooOoh phone with no screen, futuristic!" Without thinking about how useful that is in practice.
The Tinder icon at 3:48 got me good, haha.
I wonder if they thought it'd be a commercial success, because it seems blatantly obvious it'll flop. Maybe it's because it's other people's money?
Thank you for this excellent overview. I have great respect for hardware builders. This product must have sounded incredible during the initial investor pitches. As a designer, I understand the intrinsic desire to create something world-changing. We often believe that innovation is all about having a clever, unprecedented idea. However, in hardware, is is all about execution. It requires a difficult journey of close collaboration with engineers, iterative development, and sometimes making compromises or adopting others' ideas. It seems to me that this duo wanted to be the visionaries of this product at all costs. Their first presentation gave off an arrogant vibe, as if they alone knew what the future holds.
I love -Apple- Artificial Intelligence.
Also pls bring back Tech Misadventures
That outro got me!
This is EXCACTLY WHY i am a late adopter, and this is EXCACTLY WHY i wait for a product to MATURE before i make buy/no buy decision.
I do seriously think that a lot of the problems with this thing, as well as the other similar products of its ilk, are because they don't want you to remember you have a phone.
Like several of its biggest issues could be solved by making it interact with an app on your phone. The Phone could handle some of the local processing and make its battery more efficient. It wouldn't need its own phone number or anything because it could piggyback off of your current carrier, which would also reduce the price by not requiring a monthly subscription to use it. And so on.
But the problem is that it's trying to replace your phone not work in tandem with it. And I honestly feel like that is more of a decision made out of necessity than desire. Because ultimately if you have your phone on you when you're using this device, you instantly can see how just using your phone is a million times more convenient than whatever this garbage is. Not to mention that it's a lot more private and practical to use when in a public space. If I'm on a crowded subway I'm not about to try and shout over everyone else so that I can verbally ask my pin for directions to a place when it can't even visually show me those directions.
I mean hell can this thing even download and let you listen to podcasts and music and such? People use their phones for more than booking appointments and ordering pizza. Even if this has entertainment features, they're still going to be way more limited and more annoying to navigate without a physical screen to touch. And you're limited to basically just audio media.
Ultimately it is quite literally trying to solve a problem that not only doesn't exist, but literally everything it can do can already be done faster and more easily with your phone.
I cant wait to see what this will be in the near future
It's such a great concept
Hit the nail on the head - this isn't a "scam" - it's just an unrealized product.
A moment of self reflection and honesty would have told them this thing was doomed to fail. Unless they were hoping to sell the company before the product crashed and burned.
I love the humour in the videos ,the part where you said the AI PIN sucks and then the clip 'Thanks' or that list and you pull a small post-it for the positives😂 lets just say it got me in stitches