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4 futuristic things the Humane Ai Pin can do as a smartphone alternative

mashable.com 4 futuristic things the Humane Ai Pin can do as a smartphone alternative

Let's take a peek at the so-called 'smartphone killer.'

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I am calling bullshit on all of their points.

No screen, but a projector to project on your hand? WTF? So not only will it far less information, but it will be a pain to use...

Voice commands? Meaning I will need to tell everyone around me what I am doing? Also calling bullshit on getting them to work in a busy area.

No it can't, there are no ways to detect nutrition from a picture of a peice of food

Privacy? Yeah, get back with me in 20 years when it has been proven to not sell, leak or have data stolen, then I'll be impressed.

In conclusion, this is as real as the Skarp laser razor is.
- No it can’t, there are no ways to detect nutrition from a picture of a peice of food
  
  Why not? at least to the extent that a human can. Some AI model recognizes the type of food, estimates the amount and calculates nutrition based on that (hopefully verified with actual data, unlike in this demo).
  
  All three of these functions already exist, all that remains is to put them together.
  
  Ok, if you take any book, keep it closed, how many times do the letters s, q, d and r appear in the book?
  
  There is no way to know without opening the book and counting, sure, you could make some statisticsl analysis based on the language used, but that doesn't take into account the font size and spacing, nor the number of pages.
  
  Since the machine only has a photo to analyze, it can only give extremely generic results, making them effectively useless.
  
  You would need to open the food up and actually analyze a part of the inside with something like a mass spectrometer to get any useful data.
- You have to talk aloud so that you're included in the distinct lack of privacy this thing has.
I hate it. I don't want to speak to people who are wearing one.
- I feel like that with being photographed. Being in a room full of smartphones, and associating me with them in a large database somewhere. Having someone's kids use tick tock on my home network. Etc etc. We are massively under corporate surveillance, and I despise it.
- I'm going to actively avoid people doing so, and I feel like others will as well.
  
  If someone walks up to you and they're filming you on their phone, how would most people react?
  
  Fortunately there's almost no chance of this thing getting off the ground
- What if it looked like a Star Trek communicator?
  
  I... I've never really watched Star Trek. I think I could get into it but I've just never really sat down and watched it. I've probably only seen an episode or two in my whole life.
  
  I'll see myself out.
  
  What if it looked like Iggy Pop? Zac Efron?
Ai Pin has a "prominent Trust Light" which turns on when the device is in use.

Let's all place bets: What will be the first mod or patch for this device? 🥷🏽
- Literally a piece of tape.
  
  Those raybans that some have mentioned here will literally disallow you from recording or taking a pic of it detects something in the way of the activity light. We don't know what physical tampering may accomplish though.
It's a neat idea, but frankly, I don't want or need other people hearing my business. It needs to pair with (smart?) earbuds.
- Yeah, this whole product is an exercise in doing things not because it's more practical than what we already have but simply because we can... for $700 + $24/month... No thanks...
- It supports earbuds from watching a random YT video about it that popped up on my feed from the creators
For some reason this is making me wish Jobs were still around.

I’d hope he’d have some subtle burns about this product … maybe about how we’re visual animals and you can’t just throw out decades of progress on screen tech and call that innovation. Maybe something about how we’ve got one voice but 10 fingers and two eyes.
A built-in 13-megapixel ultra wide-angle camera can be used to capture photographs and videos I bet other people won't like the camera any more than they did with Google Glasses.

Photos can be viewed using the “Center” website on any web browser. Want to see photos? Gotta go to the website. All photos therefore shared. Along with notes, music listened to, reminders .... Nuh-uh!
- Wow for the low cost of several hundred dollars you can violate the privacy of you and your loved ones forever.
Another tech that is going to be utterly irrelevant as AR glasses become a mainstream reality like it or not.
- as AR glasses become a mainstream reality like it or not.
  
  Just like the segway was going to change the way we build cities?
  
  Or how cryptocurrencies will replace national fiat money?
  
  Or how google glasses have already become a mainstream reality?
  
  Or how everyone will watch TV in 3D all the time?
  
  Or how everyone will play games in VR?
  
  Just because a technology is possible it does not mean it will become ubiquitous.
  
  Hey, I still believe VR is gonna happen... someday... :'(
  
  I fully agree, but to think XR is not going to be the next computing platform is a little surprising. A little as I remember a lot of people saying they would never carry a computer around with them too.
I mean, it's fun that a techbro thought "isn't the TNG combadge cool?" and actually went and made it, but this was a Youtube video, not a product launch.
The Meta Ray-Bans have a better path to success than this. (Honestly, if they weren't tied to Meta, I'd love to get a pair.)

Mike Elgan had a great piece of why this will not take off:

https://mikeelgan.substack.com/p/why-humanes-ai-pin-wont-succeed-676

He makes a ton of great points.
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