Humane plans to open Ai Pin pre-orders on November 16, starting at $699 plus $24/month for unlimited calls, texts, and data via T-Mobile, shipping in early 2024
Are they trying to succeed? … @sdw@mastodon.social : I don't have a wisecrack or snark — this takes a lot of courage and a lot of vision to do. It's worth celebrating that there's talented people trying to do something very different. — [image] Harry McCracken / @harrymccracken@mastodon.social : I'm all for bold new devices in utterly new categories, and at least it should be possible soon to have a well-informed opinion on exactly what Humane does and how it does it. https://www.theverge.com/... @counternotions@mastodon.social : Humane's next product (to compete with Apple's Vision Pro) will be Monocle, sources say. — https://www.theverge.com/... X: @humane : This is the Humane Ai Pin https://hu.ma.ne/ [video] Joanna Stern / @joannastern : And no, I haven't gotten to see this in action yet. It was pretty clear the company didn't want seasoned reviewers to try this thing yet. Hopefully soon! Avi Greengart / @greengart : This is very much a “how it does it” product, not just “what it does.” That's why the @Humane pedigree is so important, with so many ex-Apple employees, including people who specialized in key elements of the iPhone's user experience. Steven Tey / @steventey : Humane's new AI Pin launch feels akin to the iPhone launch back in 2007. Lots of skeptics in the beginning (too expensive, too bulky), but it ultimately revolutionized the way we interacted with the world. What a time to be alive. [video] Michael Grinich / @grinich : it's easy to throw cheap shots at people trying new things, especially if you've never built something from zero yourself. but to me, it's blindingly clear how much focus and sweat went into building the @humane ai pin. you might not be impressed with their vision or today's... Brie Wolfson / @zebriez : @grinich @Humane 💙 I've long wanted to do a series called v0 that shows off first versions of things. here's airplane, nike shoe, and internet chat via ARPANET. this is the attempt to transmit the text “login” from UCLA to to a computer at the Stanford Research Institute. Only the first two... [image] Joe Rossignol / @rsgnl : My reaction to Humane's AI Pin: I'm not sure if there will ever be a tech product with as much clear-cut utility as the iPhone again. A phone, camera, music player, video player, internet browser, calculator, map, photo album, flashlight, game console, notepad, wallet, TV remote,... Kontra / @counternotions : How serious can you be if you can't spell the name of the first and the only product you just introduced, in various places, on your own site, but I digress. ↓ [image] Sam Sheffer / @samsheffer : michael thank you for the thoughtful and kind words year one @humane has been the most epic and challenging year of my life i am eternally grateful. i feel so proud. so happy. so fulfilled. we have arrived... at the starting line Avi / @avischiffmann : My thoughts on Humane-as the other “wearable AI” founder: FORM FACTOR Personally I built prototypes of all wearable AI form factors: pins, clips, watches, ear-pieces, necklaces, etc. Humane will have the following issues: · Choosing daily where to place a pin results in... [image] Joe Gebbia / @jgebbia : This is like a Daft Punk album release for hardware — insane details, took forever, and worth the wait 👏🏼@Humane Trung Phan / @trungtphan : Humane's Ai Pin is very interesting. But based on how often I misplace my AirPods, there's a 100% chance I'd forget it on the shirt and it would end up in the washing machine. [video] Robert Scoble / @scobleizer : @steventey I was first to buy an iPhone at Steve Jobs' personal store. This is nothing at all even close. The iPhone replaced something we already had: a phone. This replaces nothing and introduces a new use case most don't know they have. Not even close. Alexis Ohanian / @alexisohanian : It's easy to dunk. It's much harder to build, for years, on something the way this team has. Congrats @Humane team — I'll be ordering! Scott Belsky / @scottbelsky : whatever the outcome, there are genuine pillars of innovation here that will influence the category of AI-first devices and interfaces for years to come @tailosivetech : If I had a dollar for every time someone said this is like the OG iPhone launch... Sar Haribhakti / @sarthakgh : Not to be pedantic but we should expect veterans of company founded by Steve Jobs to get protein content of almonds and location of eclipse right in the launch video after incessant anti smartphone marketing and over 200 million in funding Neil Cybart / @neilcybart : Humane isn't getting “shade” for doing something different and new. They are getting shade for making 15+ year old tech look more useful and practical. Meanwhile, using Vision Pro for just a few minutes makes the iPhone (and all other consumer gadgets) feel dated. [image] Aaron Ng / @localghost : Congrats to Humane on the launch. It's fun to dunk, but releasing a moonshot hardware product like this is one of the hardest things you can do in consumer technology. Guillermo Rauch / @rauchg : I'm very excited about @humane's Ai Pin. A truly novel vision for human-computer interaction. Can't wait to try one. https://time.com/... Avi Greengart / @greengart : Not joking: the most revolutionary aspect of the @humane AI pin may be the hot swappable battery system. Why isn't this a thing on XR headsets, portable game consoles, and more? Sophia Goldberg / @sophgoldb : I don't want the Humane ai pin I just want an iPod shuffle David Pfau / @pfau : I am absolutely begging everyone who works in tech to read Foucault. Dustin Curtis / @dcurtis : Not sure if this is a glimpse of the future or a ridiculous toy, and that makes this product really exciting. It's easy to criticize, but it has unbelievable potential. Incredible design, too — several of the original iPhone designers worked on it. https://hu.ma.ne/ Kyle Russell / @kylebrussell : posting my first shirtless pic since I started using the AI Pin to measure my protein intake [image] Tim Carmody / @tcarmody : I'm actually coming around on Humane's New AI Pin? At first I thought “that's too expensive.” But seeing what you get, I feel like the price point makes sense. The demo is also very impressive. https://hu.ma.ne/ (If only I hadn't just spent so much money on a new MBP!) @panzer : I think a lot of casual critiques (mostly in abstract or off hand) have focused on the time and money that has been spent on this. But if you've ever spent time on product you can see the enormous branching pathways that had to be walked to get this list of features. @panzer : Ok, I love it. Kyle Russell / @kylebrussell : watching the Humane video looking for nits to pick like... (I'm sorry, I love that they're trying something new and wish I could play with one for an afternoon) [image] Alex Kaplan / @alexkaplan0 : This has been a weird product launch. First at TED, then at a fashion show, and now via Twitter. I guess it's an interesting entrant to the fast growing “Her” AI space like @RewindAI and Pendant. Good luck! @dylanmcd8 : Seems interesting. I think the AI software is very cool and has a lot of potential. As for the hardware, the computer vision stuff is cool, but the rest would be better experienced on a smartwatch imo. And I know for me, personally, a voice and speaker-based product won't work. Jake Sawyer / @naxum : This is an interesting take on computing, but showcased with low energy in an incredibly boring presentation full of background noise? Isn't this the big reveal? M. Brandon Lee / @thisistechtoday : Here is the Humane AI Pin, a $699 smart wearable device, powered by AI, with a projector, camera, speaker, microphone, and touch surface to help you interact with it. You can even navigate by changing the position of your hand while using the projector. It is certainly... Ken Kocienda / @kocienda : watch the vid! @drjimfan : I think the pin is a great stride towards “ambient intelligence”, where AI fades into the background and emerges naturally when you need it. I can imagine having the GPT app store streamed to the device, switching agents depending on the multimodal context around you at the... Kyle Russell / @kylebrussell : the estimated protein in the almonds is way off and it got the location of the next eclipse wrong in the launch video Steve Moser / @stevemoser : If Humane Ai Pin had launched a year ago the AI assistant would have been the most interesting part of this launch but now that ChatGPT is integrated into more experiences the most interesting part is the ambient computing and photo capture which means it competes more with a smart watch or smart glasses than the iPhone. It could be interesting as a wifi only device, but it sounds like it isn't designed for that. Gruber ( @gruber ) still has the best take on the looks of the Ai Pin when he said it “looks the iPhone you would get in a Happy Meal.”... Ben / @benhylak : some thoughts on humane. 1) look how the weight of the pin deforms the collar (and this is probably a fairly heavy weight shirt) [image] Alex Ker / @thealexker : The everyday AI is here. Humane AI pin just launched. It's like Samantha in “Her,” an on-demand virtual assistant with the full context of your life. 3 takeaways on the future of AI products: 1. The future is fewer apps, more workflow and experiences. To be adopted as a... [video] Ryan Hoover / @rrhoover : Who's buying one? [image] Neil Cybart / @neilcybart : 1) I can see why they leaked all the details beforehand. Shouldn't the presenters (the co-founders) be excited to announce this? They seemed like they were in prison, forced to record an unveiling video. 2) They were able to do the seemingly impossible and make the iPhone... Michael Gartenberg / @gartenberg : “But it's not yet entirely clear what you're supposed to use it for.” Relieving you of excess cash you might have in your wallet. https://www.theverge.com/... Michael Gartenberg / @gartenberg : It's a smartphone without a screen or apps, costs $699 and needs a $24 a month subscription that comes with a phone number that I certainly don't want. This is a problem begging for a solution. I give it a year at best. Maybe 500k units sold. Maybe. https://www.theverge.com/... Stephen Hall / @stephenjhall : This device itself isn't really that interesting, but the category of screenless AI devices is extremely promising—especially once models run locally. Diego Jimenez / @diegojimenez : It's really interesting that the subscription plan of voice + data + gpt4 + cloud storage (now I get why they hired all those ex-Apple icloud/infra people) is almost as important for their model as the device itself. Excited to try this out! Thomas Maxwell / @tomaxwell : To me, text just feels like a much more efficient way to navigate/consume information. Having to do everything through voice/audio is slow and cumbersome. Will be interesting to see how this does. LinkedIn: Paresh Dave : Humane™ is trying to get people to rethink their relationships with smartphones by giving them a new option: A phone you wear all day. … Forums: Hacker News : Humane launches $699 Ai Pin r/technology : Humane officially launches the AI Pin, its OpenAI-powered wearable r/singularity : Exclusive leak: all the details about Humane's AI Pin, which costs $699 and has OpenAI integration r/hardware : Exclusive leak: all the details about Humane's AI Pin, which costs $699 and has OpenAI integration r/technology : Exclusive leak: all the details about Humane's AI Pin, which costs $699 and has OpenAI integration Beehaw : Humane's AI Pin costs $699 and $24 a month with OpenAI and T-Mobile integration Msmash / Slashdot : The Humane Ai Pin Launches Its Campaign To Replace Phones
The Humane AI pin is finally announced. $700 for the device and $24/month for a subscription to a device that is effectively a way to chat with ChatGPT on the go without using your phone. While I love seeing a company innovate on hardware design, I think this product seems more…
There's a lot of hostility or at best skepticism towards Humane, but the funny thing is none of that actually about the product. It's about how the founders presented themselves. They seem to have put a lot effort into a carefully planned comms strategy, and the strategy mostly…
it's never a good sign for a new product when the company apparently goes out of its way to not have actual product reviewers touch or experience the thing when its announced https://twitter.com/...
Not sure I've seen such hatred towards a company and unreleased product as I've seen towards Humane. Can we just see what it is first? Good lord. I get a lot of this is their fault managing expectations through fashion shows, TED talks, and expensive teaser ads, but still. 😅
This reminds me a bit of General Magic. Some of these ideas will be everywhere in a decade, but probably not from this company. Too early, trying to create too many new things at once, and most of them not ready. In particular, we are nowhere close to being able to subsume eve…
This seems like a lot of hoops to jump through to do essentially what I can do with AirPods and a service (for now, although likely native next year) in iOS. I mapped the action button to take dictation and send to GPT4. It's making a lot of work in place of something that is b…
The Humane AI Pin is such a radical device that I don't think the price or subscription will stop the people who are interested in buying it, but I imagine that customer base is still very small. Still stoked this exists though. Crazy tech ideas still exist 🥳
The Humane Ai Pin introduction video is... bizarre. https://hu.ma.ne/ Super low-energy, low production value, and the first few minutes are a list of shortcomings and what it doesn't do before they tell us anything positive or demonstrate any features. — Are they trying to suc…
I don't have a wisecrack or snark — this takes a lot of courage and a lot of vision to do. It's worth celebrating that there's talented people trying to do something very different. — [image]
I'm all for bold new devices in utterly new categories, and at least it should be possible soon to have a well-informed opinion on exactly what Humane does and how it does it. https://www.theverge.com/...
And no, I haven't gotten to see this in action yet. It was pretty clear the company didn't want seasoned reviewers to try this thing yet. Hopefully soon!
This is very much a “how it does it” product, not just “what it does.” That's why the @Humane pedigree is so important, with so many ex-Apple employees, including people who specialized in key elements of the iPhone's user experience.
Humane's new AI Pin launch feels akin to the iPhone launch back in 2007. Lots of skeptics in the beginning (too expensive, too bulky), but it ultimately revolutionized the way we interacted with the world. What a time to be alive. [video]
it's easy to throw cheap shots at people trying new things, especially if you've never built something from zero yourself. but to me, it's blindingly clear how much focus and sweat went into building the @humane ai pin. you might not be impressed with their vision or today's...
@grinich @Humane 💙 I've long wanted to do a series called v0 that shows off first versions of things. here's airplane, nike shoe, and internet chat via ARPANET. this is the attempt to transmit the text “login” from UCLA to to a computer at the Stanford Research Institute. Only th…
My reaction to Humane's AI Pin: I'm not sure if there will ever be a tech product with as much clear-cut utility as the iPhone again. A phone, camera, music player, video player, internet browser, calculator, map, photo album, flashlight, game console, notepad, wallet, TV remote,…
How serious can you be if you can't spell the name of the first and the only product you just introduced, in various places, on your own site, but I digress. ↓ [image]
michael thank you for the thoughtful and kind words year one @humane has been the most epic and challenging year of my life i am eternally grateful. i feel so proud. so happy. so fulfilled. we have arrived... at the starting line
Humane's Ai Pin is very interesting. But based on how often I misplace my AirPods, there's a 100% chance I'd forget it on the shirt and it would end up in the washing machine. [video]
@steventey I was first to buy an iPhone at Steve Jobs' personal store. This is nothing at all even close. The iPhone replaced something we already had: a phone. This replaces nothing and introduces a new use case most don't know they have. Not even close.
whatever the outcome, there are genuine pillars of innovation here that will influence the category of AI-first devices and interfaces for years to come
Not joking: the most revolutionary aspect of the @humane AI pin may be the hot swappable battery system. Why isn't this a thing on XR headsets, portable game consoles, and more?
Not to be pedantic but we should expect veterans of company founded by Steve Jobs to get protein content of almonds and location of eclipse right in the launch video after incessant anti smartphone marketing and over 200 million in funding
Congrats to Humane on the launch. It's fun to dunk, but releasing a moonshot hardware product like this is one of the hardest things you can do in consumer technology.
Humane isn't getting “shade” for doing something different and new. They are getting shade for making 15+ year old tech look more useful and practical. Meanwhile, using Vision Pro for just a few minutes makes the iPhone (and all other consumer gadgets) feel dated. [image]
Not sure if this is a glimpse of the future or a ridiculous toy, and that makes this product really exciting. It's easy to criticize, but it has unbelievable potential. Incredible design, too — several of the original iPhone designers worked on it. https://hu.ma.ne/
I'm actually coming around on Humane's New AI Pin? At first I thought “that's too expensive.” But seeing what you get, I feel like the price point makes sense. The demo is also very impressive. https://hu.ma.ne/ (If only I hadn't just spent so much money on a new MBP!)
I think a lot of casual critiques (mostly in abstract or off hand) have focused on the time and money that has been spent on this. But if you've ever spent time on product you can see the enormous branching pathways that had to be walked to get this list of features.
watching the Humane video looking for nits to pick like... (I'm sorry, I love that they're trying something new and wish I could play with one for an afternoon) [image]
This has been a weird product launch. First at TED, then at a fashion show, and now via Twitter. I guess it's an interesting entrant to the fast growing “Her” AI space like @RewindAI and Pendant. Good luck!
Seems interesting. I think the AI software is very cool and has a lot of potential. As for the hardware, the computer vision stuff is cool, but the rest would be better experienced on a smartwatch imo. And I know for me, personally, a voice and speaker-based product won't work.
This is an interesting take on computing, but showcased with low energy in an incredibly boring presentation full of background noise? Isn't this the big reveal?
Here is the Humane AI Pin, a $699 smart wearable device, powered by AI, with a projector, camera, speaker, microphone, and touch surface to help you interact with it. You can even navigate by changing the position of your hand while using the projector. It is certainly...
I think the pin is a great stride towards “ambient intelligence”, where AI fades into the background and emerges naturally when you need it. I can imagine having the GPT app store streamed to the device, switching agents depending on the multimodal context around you at the...
If Humane Ai Pin had launched a year ago the AI assistant would have been the most interesting part of this launch but now that ChatGPT is integrated into more experiences the most interesting part is the ambient computing and photo capture which means it competes more with a sma…
The everyday AI is here. Humane AI pin just launched. It's like Samantha in “Her,” an on-demand virtual assistant with the full context of your life. 3 takeaways on the future of AI products: 1. The future is fewer apps, more workflow and experiences. To be adopted as a... [video…
1) I can see why they leaked all the details beforehand. Shouldn't the presenters (the co-founders) be excited to announce this? They seemed like they were in prison, forced to record an unveiling video. 2) They were able to do the seemingly impossible and make the iPhone...
“But it's not yet entirely clear what you're supposed to use it for.” Relieving you of excess cash you might have in your wallet. https://www.theverge.com/...
It's a smartphone without a screen or apps, costs $699 and needs a $24 a month subscription that comes with a phone number that I certainly don't want. This is a problem begging for a solution. I give it a year at best. Maybe 500k units sold. Maybe. https://www.theverge.com/...
It's really interesting that the subscription plan of voice + data + gpt4 + cloud storage (now I get why they hired all those ex-Apple icloud/infra people) is almost as important for their model as the device itself. Excited to try this out!
To me, text just feels like a much more efficient way to navigate/consume information. Having to do everything through voice/audio is slow and cumbersome. Will be interesting to see how this does.
My theory about what happened at Humane... Founders pitch investors on a hand laser thing when it's a napkin sketch. They raise too much money, hire too many people. They build a prototype, but too late. Turns out the laser UI sucks and eats too much battery. “Hmm. …
There's something very positive to be said for a good computer you don't need to stare at, but I think visual cues matter for most people, so I don't know about that. The path of the eclipse was wrong. The almond math was wrong. Unsure if that matters.
The philosophy and ideas behind the Humane Ai pin are legitimately interesting, but the form factor is such a non-starter for normies. Meta Ray-Bans, the Apple Watch, and AirPods all operate in the same universe with more natural form factors. And those Ray-Bans are half the pr…
Today Humane announced *three* products. A chat GPT wrapper. A camera without a screen. Swappable batteries. ChatGPT. Useless camera. Batteries. Are you getting it?
First impressions on Humane: Hardware, to me, is a home run. Functional but not dull, friendly while still futuristic. Love the “hack” of building the battery into the magnetic *back*, which makes hot swapping possible. Also love that $699 gets you the pin, cable, an extra bat…
The Humane AI Pin feels like the Clubhouse of wearables - cool features that are easy to port over to existing products. For Clubhouse, it was other social media apps. For Humane, it's phones, wearables, and ambient assistants. I'm rooting for them but it's hard to not call ou…
Humane will be lucky to sell 10,000 of these Ai Pins, only to watch a company relaunch the same product in 10 years for double the price. [embedded post]
My thoughts on Humane-as the other “wearable AI” founder: FORM FACTOR Personally I built prototypes of all wearable AI form factors: pins, clips, watches, ear-pieces, necklaces, etc. Humane will have the following issues: · Choosing daily where to place a pin results in... [image…
Yeah, if only Meta had thought to put AI in its new version of Ray-Ban smartglasses. Oh wait, they did, and it works amazingly (available now, not in 2024, and for half the price).
I am hereby requesting 5-8,000 words to be written about Brother Spirit, and potentially a full 10 episode Netflix series set inside the Brother Spirit Cinematic Universe https://www.nytimes.com/... [image]
“Pin” is meant more as a metaphor to evoke the “sentiment of attaching it to your clothing” than as a physical descriptor. We couldn't call it the AI tin of mints clipped to your chest. Marketing vetoed that one. https://www.wired.com/...
“People with pacemakers should consult their doctors about potential magnetic interference, Chaudhri says.” Oh, it doesn't have health features and also, it might kill you. https://www.wired.com/...
As a tech enthusiast, I'm excited to try this out. As a consumer, I'm still unsure how it is going to fit in my daily life, but it's great to see consumer electronics that are not giant touch screen slabs. https://www.nytimes.com/...
I shared about this recently. It can ultimately be Jarvis-like -> A look at Humane's $699 clip-on Ai Pin, the culmination of 5 years of work, $240M in funding, and 25 patents; Humane expects to sell ~100K in the first year https://www.nytimes.com/... [image]
What comes after the iPhone? Silicon Valley has been asking that for years. Humane thinks it has the answer: A new device that trades screens for AI and lasers. The journey starts with a Bhuddist monk named Brother Spirit. w/ @eringriffith https://www.nytimes.com/... [image]
“We want to have powerful compute with us at all times, and that's really what it's about,” Has either of them ever seen an Apple Watch Ultra? Always with me & I can use it standalone with a cell connection that doesn't require a new phone number for $10 https://www.wired.com/...
“It's really touching people from every background, every age group, globally, in terms of what we're feeling and seeing in feedback."" Translation “all our VCs love wearing it on their Patagonia vests and convincing themselves this is the new iPhone” https://www.wired.com/...
I joined @Humane towards the tail-end of this chapter but everything the team has accomplished since the start is nothing short of mindblowing And like I said, today marks the start of a new chapter in what promises to be an incredible journey This is the Ai Pin and I can't... [i…
🌘 NEW: @trippmickle and I spent time inside Humane, the wildly ambitious A.I. hardware start-up that's trying to break our smartphone addiction. Their solution? More technology of course! (thread) [image]
“Whether any of them can become socially acceptable or withstand the scrutiny of the fashion police is a major question” nope My smart watch is great at being invisible w/my phone always handy when I need more. Also, I don't look like a dork with my watch https://www.wired.com/..…
Here is a 4500-word interview with a founder who wants to push personal computing forward. I am sure no one will read it, but they should because it tells you a lot about how the mind of a founder works. @imranchaudhri @humane https://om.co/... [image]
A whole generation is growing up talking to machines. It is an interface shift, much like mobile was for another generation. I explain the why of the AI Pin here https://om.co/...