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What not to wear: Humane’s Ai Pin
The buzzy wearable tech reportedly has a prohibitive cost and tendency to overheat.
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By
Dave Lozo
12 April 2024
less than 3 min read
The reviews for Humane’s new Ai Pin are so negative that you’d think it spent time in the Amazon researching spiders.
The Madame Web of wearable tech, which aims to one day replace your smartphone, is being universally dragged it for its prohibitive cost ($699 + $24 a month for a T-Mobile cellular plan through Humane), tendency to overheat, inability to provide reliable answers to voice queries, and how sunlight makes it nearly impossible to read information it projects onto your hand.
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Numerous reviewers were disappointed with the camera: Inverse likened the photo quality to an iPhone 4, while Engadget said it was worse than a Nokia E7 from 2012.
Most critics felt compelled to mention that its response time is too slow.
The only music app it supports is Tidal, which costs another $11 per month.
There’s still potential. Reviewers found that the first-gen product felt very beta, including its Vision feature that analyzes your surroundings. Humane has promised software updates to work out the bugs, and The Verge expects the Pin to get better as the overall state of AI improves.