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Imagine a couple people trying to use a device like this, which mostly interact by voice, in the same space…
I’ve been following this for a while now. Weird that I haven’t seen mention of the STNG combadge because this is a ripoff of that.
The main problem with this type of device is that you have to speak to it. That’snot going to work in a crowd. Even if it does “work” it would be annoying as hell. People are already awful with Bluetooth headsets.
So this is going to be another Google Glass(hole) type thing. Interesting idea and tech but poorly implemented.
AI pin, what’s my credit card number?
It’s happening to streamers already:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Watch… [reddit.com]
So it’s like a Star Trek: TNG communicator with far less style and functionality?
What we really need is a phone that can double as a phaser. Bonus if it can be overloaded and used as a hand grenade.

… used as a hand grenade.
Samsung: Already on it!
I was coming here to mention the combadges.
I used to be a mobile developer back in the days of Palm Pilots and Windows CE PDAs. Back then the buzzword was “convergence”; all the information devices you carried would get rolled up into one thing. Well, we’ve got that, and it’s so fundamental to the way we think about mobile devices we actualy can’t see the drawbacks.
Trying to make a tiny form factor device like this do *everything* is really that knee-jerk convergence thinking continuing to drive the way we conceive of systems. Sure, if you don’t
These people need to do a couple surveys to see how many random strangers are interested in this, because it appears to be a solution without a problem.
Most of my phone use now is Internet and texting, and games when I’m waiting. The camera’s occasionally useful too.
The time for a Star Trek com badge is past, we’ve done better.

The time for a Star Trek com badge is past, we’ve done better.
We spend several centuries developing the complexity of the modern languages used by billions today, only to devolve back into using our opposable thumbs typing on a virtual keyboard we promised was gonna be obsolete 30 years ago because aforementioned, communicating with pictures now..also known as what neanderthals were scrawling on cave walls several thousand years ago.
Oh yeah. We’ve dun dun betterrer alright. The Missing Link should be named Fuckin’ Irony.
How is typing a devolution? Written language is surely more advanced than verbal language, and societies that adopted writing early demonstrated noticeable technological advancement. Verbal language allows us to communicate. Written language allows us to articulate highly complex ideas.
There’s a reason we only have Julius Caesar’s perspective of the Gaulic wars and most of what we know about the Gauls comes from him.

How is typing a devolution?
It was more a realization than anything after listening to one-too-many salesman on the computer convention floor selling the advantages of talk-clicking your Win9x start menu alive, along with one-too-many ads bragging about now naturally dragons speak humanese.
Like many, I’ve spent a lot on keyboards that ironically emulate a near 40-year old keyboard design, and laughed a lot at those selling alternatives. Regardless, today’s generation often listens to movies and videos at faster-than-normal speed, mak

How is typing a devolution? Written language is surely more advanced than verbal language, and societies that adopted writing early demonstrated noticeable technological advancement. Verbal language allows us to communicate. Written language allows us to articulate highly complex ideas.
Gee, that’s odd. And here I thought written language allowed others to ASS-U-ME and ‘articulate’ far too wrongly about implied tone, intention, sarcasm, and all the other shit that condemns people all the time when the written word is misinterpreted far more often than a recorded voice.

There’s a reason we only have Julius Caesar’s perspective of the Gaulic wars and most of what we know about the Gauls comes from him.
Uh huh. There’s also a reason we have far more than 31 flavors of the Bible too.
Just because people frequently make the mistake of somehow believing that writing captures their tone doesn’t mean that writing is a lesser medium. It just means that they are lesser writers.

Written language allows us to articulate highly complex ideas.
Even more importantly, it allows us to communicate through timescales longer than individual lives.
Since we now hold the immense capability of recorded video and audio, they would be considerably better to convey everything that gets lost in translation in the written word. Constantly and horrifically. HOW many variants of religious texts have been warped beyond belief?
We do this to ourselves ALL THE TIME and still today, via email or text message. Hell, we only recently invented a #sarcasm identifier…as we try and interpret the historical musings of several generations of smart-asses and trolls. G
Video and audio are highly inefficient methods for communicating many ideas that writing excels at. For example, technical manuals leverage the ability of writing to allow one to quickly find information. It’s also extremely common for video, especially when conveying information, to utilize the written word.
Also, video and audio would do little, if nothing, to prevent things from becoming lost in translation with time. Even if someone had been around with a camera to record Jesus’ sermons, no one would und
The phone can be turned off, put in a pocket, left at home etc. So can this thing. The difference is, if you’re wearing this thing, you’ll look like a jerk. Not that I’m saying this will kill the market – bluetooth headsets make people look like jerks too and those have been popular for over a decade.
The bigger difference is that your phone has more functionality and is more practical.
This thing is a significant downgrade from a phone and a Bluetooth headset.
does that $24 plan have roaming? high speed cap?
own phone number?? why can’t you just use your own sim with your own number and plan?
Because if they made it frictionless like that, pretty much all of Humane AI’s users would quickly move their SIM to a different device once they find out what a half-baked concept this actually is.
Because SIM trays take up space inside small devices, and require extra engineering and volume for ejection mechanisms and liquid / dust proofing seals in comparison to an eSIM that can be provisioned over WiFi and is likely already included in whatever SoC or 5G modem they’re using.
Oh, wait, in the modern world there is no place for anything sensitive! Let’s just blast all those messages and emails out loud for everyone around you to hear and not give you any way of replying, either, without letting everyone around you hear every single thing! Totally not going to cause a lot of trouble for people, no, sirree.
Ooorrrr maybe this is just a blindingly stupid idea and it’ll get scrapped soon after launch as people realize all the caveats.
Are you suggesting this thing isn’t capable of bluetooth audio device pairing?
I get the complaint on replying, but there’s still very inexpensive methods of having text-to-speech remain private: a bluetooth earpiece.
Paying a pretty steep price for a device that’s tied to T-mobile and can’t do anything a traditional phone device can’t also do, but can’t provide a decent screen nor decent touch interface…
Yeah, this will be a complete and utter failure…
Except you can easily find phones for 200-400. The ‘flagships’ are over $1K, but you don’t *have* to buy a flagship.
“Can it play videos or games? Color projector? Does the projector track your hand or are you forced to keep it in a certain position? Will ot work easily when worn at an angle like on people with big boobs? Can it take photos and videos?”
All good questions, to which we can add, “How does it handle the fact that your hand is not designed to be a projection screen?” If it *does* handle color, then the fact that your hand is not pure white means the color is going to look like crap.

Can it take photos and videos?
Don’t know about the rest, but this one is easy to answer: there’s a camera lens on it in the product photograph in TFA. So I would assume it’s not there for decoration, and is functional to some degree.
..in the olympics of stupid ideas
Does anybody actually believe this is a good idea?
Or is it just some kind of sick joke
Projecting a crappy image onto your hand? Really?
Seems more like a Monty Python routine
It is clearly a project aimed at separating the gullible from their money.
So successful then? Even if not to anybody’s but their own benefit….
You’re not watching movies on it. It projects the text of your text messages.
I don’t know why so many commenters in this thread have forgotten that bluetooth audio is a thing.
If you have earbuds connected, why would the device pay attention to any commands not being transmitted from those? And also, you have to touch the device before it goes into command mode, so that basically takes care of all your bitching except for the monochrome projector – how many colors do you need your text messages in?
Nothing creepy about this. No, not at all. /s
Pretty-much useless, with no display. Unless paired with glasses, which is even more creepy, but that we will eventually have to get used to.
How is this “humane”? Did they throw in a buzz-word there.
Oh, I see it projects an image on your hand?
Talk to the hand! LOL
Meanwhile, I have a watch that does much of what this does, without the creepy part. I can go out without a phone – for a walk, for a bike ride, and still stay in touch and have a little screen with som

A simple T-9 pad, 5G cell radio, bluetooth transmitter and battery in a small form factor that can be a pocket watch, watch, pin or live in your pocket. You can dial using the T-9 or by voice and send/receive texts through the same interface. No displays or lasers required.
I think you just invented the Nokia 3310 and added modern radios. There’s probably a market for it though!
This device is no different for voice calls than if someone has their phone in their pocket and a pair of earbuds in any given scenario. A rude person is going to be rude with this, the same that they are rude with their phone, so I don’t know why everyone seems to think that it’s a core deficiency with this product.
Rudes are gonna rude, and they always have.
Ah, Imran Chaudhri, the idiot who convinced Steve Jobs that iPhone didn’t need a back button. I’m guessing his device will lack all buttons whatsoever.
I’ll stand up for this one. A lot of people (including myself, to some lesser extent) are addicted to their screens. OK, in this modern world, you sort of need to have a cell phone. This is a way to stay connected without having your Tiktok-addiction-device on your person at all times. Speakerphone is no big deal. Surely the device will connect to a pair of bluetooth headphones, and then it’s just the same as any other phone.
Too expensive, I’d say, but for some people it’s worth it. My main objection

I’ll stand up for this one. A lot of people (including myself, to some lesser extent) are addicted to their screens. OK, in this modern world, you sort of need to have a cell phone. This is a way to stay connected without having your Tiktok-addiction-device on your person at all times. Speakerphone is no big deal. Surely the device will connect to a pair of bluetooth headphones, and then it’s just the same as any other phone.
Too expensive, I’d say, but for some people it’s worth it. My main objection would be that an Apple Watch with cell phone connectivity is a better solution for screen addicts.
You can get a dumbphone for about twenty bucks. For fifty you can get a nice one. I’m very happy with my Nokia 2720.
[offtopic] The KaiOS dumbphone operating system is a bit bloated and needs some tweaking to make it usable, get rid of google’s tracking etc. KaiOS is like a committee sat down and said “we need an old-school phone without all the cruft of a smartphone,” then they met a week later and said “oh but we still need instant messaging, navigation and voice activation” and bolted a bunch of half-bake
I was unaware that buying one of these things completely pre-empts and cancels one’s ability to slightly think ahead and bring a different portable device / book / magazine if you know you’re going to be waiting around. I mean, what do people do on subways and multi-hour aircraft trips where they don’t have cell service? Immediately have a panic attack, or just continue riding the train / airplane until they DO have connectivity at the next stop?
$100 says it supports bluetooth audio, and will have some fo
If the product was smaller, more stylish, and significantly cheaper, then maybe. At $700, forget it!
If you can make something that looks like a broach and that can pair with earbuds and give internet access for say $200, then maybe. But at $700 any random phone kept in a bag would have similar utility.
If the Ai Pin supports that, we’d still have people talking out loud, but we can’t hear the other side
and it would work well with the bluetooth speaker phones in cars
I’d use one then
It’s a prototype too
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