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- All right, so this is the Humane AI Pin.
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It is a brand new product,
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and a really, really
interesting form factor
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of an ultra futuristic wearable computer.
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So in a time of all these
crazy gadgets and Vision Pro,
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and wearable glasses,
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it's so sick that we get so many
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genuinely new first
generation products like this
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to give a shot.
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Unfortunately, it's also
the new worst product
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I think I've ever reviewed,
in its current state.
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There's just so many things bad about it.
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It's so bad, in fact,
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that I think it's actually
kind of distracting
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to like understand what
the point of the device is
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as we go through it.
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So I'm gonna have to separate
it out for this video.
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First, I'm gonna tell you what it is,
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and what it's supposed to do,
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and then I'll tell you what my experience
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has actually been using it.
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(mellow instrumental music)
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So this thing is a
small, wearable computer,
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with an AI inside,
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that can help you throughout your day.
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It's about the size of a large watch.
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It has a camera and a microphone,
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and can interact with
the world around you.
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But in case you can't use that as input,
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there's also a touch pad
and a projector inside,
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with this super new
style of gesture control,
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with the projection on your hand.
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It costs $700, plus...
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A $24 a month subscription plan
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for the data that comes with it,
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and all the services and
all the online storage.
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But yeah, $700, plus a subscription.
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It's already a fun start.
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So one of the big things off the top is,
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this does not pair to
your smartphone at all.
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This is its own standalone device,
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with its own internet connection,
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with its own phone number.
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And so this little AI assistant
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just goes everywhere with
you, it's always connected,
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and that's...
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You can choose how much
or how little to use it
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alongside your smartphone.
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So you know, on its face,
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maybe that's kind of
a cool idea, at least.
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Like the idea is you
talk to it like a person,
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it answers questions, it
gives you historical facts,
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or personalized recommendations,
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or helps you out with things,
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like brainstorming or remembering things.
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It can make phone calls,
and send text messages.
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A ton of stuff.
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The unfortunate reality though,
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is this thing is too much of a pain to use
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to actually want to do most of that stuff
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alongside your phone.
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But we'll get there.
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(mellow instrumental music)
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All right, let me actually
start with the hardware.
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This little thing, the
build of this thing,
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is actually impressive.
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Like genuinely, I think if
you're looking for a reason
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to feel like you're
not getting ripped off,
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the hardware packaging actually
kind of accomplishes that.
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Like this pin is solid, it's
aluminum, it's dense feeling.
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There's three colors, actually.
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There's all matte black,
which is the cheapest one.
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Or for a hundred bucks more,
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you can get white or
this black and silver one
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that I'm using.
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And then there's a lot of
sensors packed up there.
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There's a camera, there's
microphones, there's lights,
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there's a tiny class 2 laser projector.
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So this whole thing is
like really densely packed.
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And then the magnets also
that connect everything,
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are super strong.
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So the back of this pin
is called a "booster".
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It's another battery.
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So it's got its own internal battery,
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but then once you attach
it to your clothes,
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it cleverly, through your
clothes, magnetizes there.
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It makes a nice sound when you do.
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And that's how you get it attached.
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So you get two of these boosters.
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And since there's the internal battery,
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you can literally hot swap between them
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so the thing stays alive.
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Very clever.
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And then it also comes with
this extremely well-made,
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and also very, very
reflective charging case.
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So you can pop it in there,
or just your battery in there,
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keep it topped off.
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That charges by USB Type-C.
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This thing is nice.
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And it also comes with this
like desktop charging puck,
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where you can magnetize in the battery,
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or the whole thing.
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The pin and the booster at the same time.
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So that is a lot of charging
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and battery related accessories,
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but they all come with it.
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And this pin, you know,
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it's also got these
lights up at the top here
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that light up anytime
you're doing anything.
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And there's also a small
pin light notification
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for when there's
something waiting for you.
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So between the weight of the parts
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and the strength of the magnets,
how it all slaps together,
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like you can tell that a lot of effort
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was put into the
craftsmanship of this product,
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which I very much appreciate.
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It's the best part of the pin, by a lot.
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(mellow instrumental music)
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Okay, I want you to forget
about the smartphone
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in your pocket for a second.
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Like just for a minute, just
pretend that doesn't exist.
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Ignore it, right?
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This little pin can do a lot
of stuff, and is very helpful.
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So again, think of this
thing as an AI assistant
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that's like by your side,
all the time with you.
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So, you can ask it things.
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It doesn't have a wake word,
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it only turns the mic on and
listens when you touch it.
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So you can go...
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(AI Pin beeps)
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How tall is the Empire State Building?
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(AI Pin beeps)
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And then when you let go,
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it starts sending that
query off to the crowd.
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The-
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- [AI Pin] The Empire State Building
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is 1,454 feet tall to the tip.
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- The Cloud.
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And then gets you an
answer, which is great.
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And it also is multimodal.
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So that means it can look at the camera,
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and see things, and interact
with the world around you.
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So...
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(AI Pin beeps)
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Look and tell me what you see.
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(AI Pin beeps)
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So it'll scan the room,
use the Cloud again.
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That little noise was it
taking a little image,
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sending AI image to the Cloud,
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analyzing it, getting it back,
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then deciding what to tell me.
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- [AI Pin] You are sitting in front
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of a camera and a laptop.
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The camera is on a tripod
and pointed at you.
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The laptop is open, and
you are looking at it.
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There are three pictures of
dogs on the wall behind you.
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There is a window to
the left of the camera.
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There is a boom mic on
the table in front of you.
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There is a red carpet on the floor.
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- Great.
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The camera can also take pictures,
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or up to 15 second videos,
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which it auto uploads while charging.
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It can also remember things
you tell it to remember.
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And all these things will
show up in the Humane Center.
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So it's like this online web portal
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for all things connected to the pin.
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There's no app, it's just the website.
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So there, you can see a whole
history of who you've called,
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and texted, and what you've listened to,
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and what answers it gave to
your most recent requests,
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and all the things you
told it to remember.
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It is pretty well-rounded.
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I think probably its best
tech demo feature though,
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is the translate back and forth.
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You got a two finger
gesture, you can go...
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(AI Pin beeps)
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(Marques speaks in Spanish)
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(AI Pin beeps)
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- [AI Pin] Where's the library?
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- So it auto detects the language,
translates it to English,
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and the person who speaks
back can translate back,
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as long as you hold on the
pin and listen to them.
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Pretty cool.
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This is all voice stuff though.
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So if at any point you're in a loud area,
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or a very private area,
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and you don't wanna interact
out loud with your voice,
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that's where this projector comes in.
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So it seems crazy, but
you activate it like that,
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and then you just hold your
finger out, your whole palm,
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and it becomes a projector screen
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for the laser projector
built into the pin.
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So it takes a little practice,
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but eventually you get used
to holding your hand up
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in just the right spot,
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and then the UI gets
projected in this green 720p
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mini screen on your hand.
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So you basically use your hand,
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try to be as flat as possible,
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and then to interact with it,
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there are some movement gestures.
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So there's a time of flight sensor
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that keeps track of movement,
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and you move your hand around kind of like
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rolling a marble around in
your hand to select something,
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then pinch to select.
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You can then make a fist to go back,
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and then you literally push forward
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to move deeper into a menu.
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So this is like a 3D UI you have to learn.
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This is obviously very
brand new for people,
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but I think to be fair,
it is pretty intuitive.
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I think if you get a
quick 60 second lesson,
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you kind of already have
learned all the things you need.
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When you first connect
the booster to the pin,
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you can unlock it, and
unlocking it with my pin,
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is like this...
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Move your hand through space
to select the numbers thing.
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It's literally like moving back and forth
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through a Rolodex of real numbers.
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So it's one of those like
borderline magic things
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where the first time you see it,
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you kind of just get it, and it clicks.
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Even if it is a little fidgety,
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and a little bit inaccurate
and kind of slow.
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But that gets us into the review.
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(mellow instrumental music)
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So, unfortunately...
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This thing is bad at
almost everything it does,
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basically all the time.
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Where do I even start?
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So I guess first of all, okay,
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it's supposed to just
answer questions, right?
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It can kinda do that sometimes,
but one, it's often slow,
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because most of these requests
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go to the Cloud and come back,
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and there's just a long wait.
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And two, it's often wrong,
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because AI still can hallucinate,
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and there are still issues with it
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just not understanding correctly,
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or just saying the wrong thing.
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And that's not even
mentioning server timeouts,
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if you have a poor internet connection,
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which happens to me all
the time in this studio.
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So when they do most of the demos,
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like on their websites
and in their videos,
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they'll ask a question,
and then they'll let go,
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and keep talking to fill the silence,
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so it's not awkward as
you wait for an answer,
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and realize how long it is.
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But even on this fast studio wifi here...
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(AI Pin beeps)
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Who designed the Washington Monument?
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(AI Pin beeps)
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- [AI] Finding designer.
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The Washington Monument was
designed by Robert Mills,
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a prominent 19th century
American architect
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from South Carolina.
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The construction was
eventually completed by-
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- Okay.
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So you can just hold your hand up
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to put your answer on your hand,
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and interrupt that it's talking so much.
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But even that was like a
pretty good performance
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for the AI Pin.
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In ideal, fast wifi conditions.
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But there are many, many times
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when I feel like it's way slower,
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and it seems like it goes to the internet
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for almost everything.
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I mean there's a few queries I guess
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might be local, like...
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(AI Pin beeps)
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What time is it?
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(AI Pin beeps)
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- [AI Pin] 11:42 AM.
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- Like that's pretty fast.
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If I ask the battery life,
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it can tell me that pretty fast.
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But it feels like
basically everything else
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is just shoveling it off to the Cloud,
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not computing on the device,
and it takes a while.
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But it's also just wrong all the time.
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Like, I remember asking it
days before the solar eclipse
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when the next eclipse
was, and it said 2044.
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I asked it, "What's some
good Asian food in the area?"
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And over and over again it thought I said,
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"What's the best ash?"
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For some reason?
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When is the next Nets game?
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(AI Pin beeps)
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- [AI Pin] Finding next Nets game.
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The next Brooklyn Nets game
is on Sunday, April 14th,
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but no specific opponent
or location is provided.
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- I just Googled it.
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It says it's the 76ers,
so that's kind of weird.
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(AI Pin beeps)
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What's the traffic to the
Empire State Building from here?
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(AI Pin beeps)
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- [AI Pin] Finding direction.
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Use the voice command feature of AI Pin
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to ask for traffic information
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to the Empire State Building,
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and it will provide you
with the details you need.
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- I did?
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This stuff happens all the time.
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But then, speaking of battery life...
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Really bad.
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(Marques laughs)
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And inconsistent, which is annoying.
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So, it's already kind of bad enough
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that you have another device,
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that you also have to
charge every single day.
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But with this, it's
actually more than that.
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You have to constantly
babysit the battery,
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and swap out boosters
and charge this thing,
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and keep it charged
multiple times per day.
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So like I said before,
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you get two of these
things that come with it,
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and I've had a pin nuke through
the entire booster battery
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in two hours, while not
really doing much of anything.
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I've also had it last like four hours
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while doing a whole bunch of, you know,
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photos and videos and
requests and laser stuff.
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And it's also just like constantly warm
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the whole time.
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Just all the time.
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Which is a little bit concerning.
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I'll also say, multiple
times in various situations,
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I've had it just overheat
for seemingly no reason,
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and tell me to wait a
while for it to cool down.
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I think the heat problem is also amplified
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because of the gap
created by whatever fabric
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is between the booster and the product,
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that it is actively, inductively charging.
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You know, it is a lot of
very impressive engineering,
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but wireless charging is
notoriously inefficient,
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and loses energy via heat,
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and that's what's happening
in here all the time.
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So just the fact that it's warm,
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just this warm puck on my chest all day,
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was just enough to never quite
forget that I'm wearing it.
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Well, that and the weight.
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Look, it's well-made, like I said,
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it's really impressive hardware,
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but it's just a little...
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I mean, you see that little sag?
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It's just a little too heavy,
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in the same way that Vision
Pro is just a bit too heavy.
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When you're wearing the thing,
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you just wanna make it
as light as possible.
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It's why a lot of this
stuff is made of plastic.
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So when you decide to go
aluminum instead, yeah,
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it's just a little too heavy.
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I feel like Humane in
a lot of their videos,
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they've got all these thick
fabrics, and like heavy jackets,
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so it doesn't really pull
down and sag nearly as much.
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But if you wear some lighter
weight materials like I do,
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especially when it gets warm outside,
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this is really gonna start to be noticed.
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And yes, there are some
optional accessories
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that are lighter weight,
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but you never quite forget about it.
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This pin cannot set a timer.
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This pin cannot set an alarm.
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This notification light they
put up at the corner here,
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it's there and it works,
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but it is basically out of my
peripheral, my field of use,
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so I almost never see it.
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And you know, they also chose
this corner for the light,
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which means it's designed to be worn
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on this half of the body,
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which is fine, and you
get used to it there,
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but that's also exactly
where most seat belts go,
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in the US anyway.
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So, not their fault,
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just another annoying
thing about using it.
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The photos look pretty bad,
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and the videos look even worse.
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They're square-ish in
aspect ratio, very noisy,
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and they max out at 15 seconds.
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The hub that everything
syncs with, for me,
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just randomly stops working,
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and I have to refresh it
to get it to work again.
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The projector...
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As impressive as a technical
achievement as it is,
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it's just not very readable.
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It's not particularly bright outdoors,
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and it gets dimmer the
further from your hand it is
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because of physics.
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And unless I knew what
those words were saying,
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I really can't read very much.
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And...
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(Marques chuckles)
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There are no apps.
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There just are no apps.
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So when you first sign up
with your Humane account,
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you get to sync with four accounts.
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There are your Apple,
Google, Microsoft, and Tidal.
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So the first three are
basically for your contacts,
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and then the last one, Tidal
is the exclusive music partner.
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So there is no Uber access,
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there is no Spotify access,
there's no WhatsApp,
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there's no calendar, no
Gmail, none of that stuff.
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It's just...
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I can't book a flight, I
can't buy something on Amazon.
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It just will not do any of that stuff
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that I just do on my phone.
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(mellow instrumental music)
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So I know I've said like
a bunch of the downsides
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and the problems this device has,
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but I really genuinely
think the biggest problem
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this pin is going to have,
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is that smartphones are kind of OP.
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The number one thing I've reminded myself
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from the week of using this pin,
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trying to get it to do stuff,
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is that smartphones are not
going anywhere anytime soon.
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And I think a lot of the comments online
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have already picked up on this,
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even without testing and
using the pin, which is,
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okay, there seems like a lot of overlap
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between what this is and
what a smartphone can do.
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But everything that this pin does,
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a modern smartphone
does better and faster,
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and easier and in higher quality,
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and just better in every way.
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Like your smartphone obviously
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takes better pictures and videos,
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and you can frame things more easily.
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Of course, a phone can call
and text people more easily.
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You can use it in more
places, loud places,
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private places, use it
with literally any outfit.
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Also, a phone, like you
can quickly Google things,
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it's faster to message people back.
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And of course, it can email people,
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and use all kinds of app experiences.
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Do you know what happens
when you try to just
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send someone a picture from the AI Pin?
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You already know how
to do it on your phone.
00:16:23
With the AI Pin, okay,
you take the picture,
00:16:25
then you either try this with your voice,
00:16:27
or you pull up the picture,
00:16:29
which is just a green
720p jpeg on your hand.
00:16:34
I guess that's a good
enough preview, sure.
00:16:36
You go to send it, you pick your contact,
00:16:38
or type in the whole phone
number with the gestures.
00:16:43
Eventually, you go to send,
00:16:45
and it has its own internet connection,
00:16:46
and it sends a link to view the picture
00:16:51
in the Humane web portal.
00:16:53
Like the difference in how easy,
00:16:56
how frictionless that is here versus here,
00:16:59
it's not even close.
00:17:00
And there are honestly many times
00:17:01
where I'd be trusting this pin,
00:17:03
like I'm reviewing it,
I'm living that life,
00:17:04
I'm using it, and I'd ask it something,
00:17:06
and I would wait so long,
00:17:07
and my phone would just
be sitting right there,
00:17:10
where I could just pick it
up and Google the answer
00:17:12
in the time it takes me to get hopefully
00:17:14
the right answer on the pin.
00:17:15
It's just...
00:17:16
Phones are OP.
00:17:18
(AI Pin beeps)
00:17:19
Look and tell me what this is.
00:17:20
(AI Pin beeps)
00:17:31
Or I'll just do this, I guess.
00:17:34
Ah...
00:17:36
It's a Cybertruck.
00:17:37
- [AI Pin] The photo is of a Cybertruck.
00:17:39
An electric pickup
truck produced by Tesla.
00:17:44
- Yup.
00:17:45
Also, I gotta say, when
I say phones are OP,
00:17:48
like screens in your hand.
00:17:52
So sick.
00:17:52
Just for the last like 10% of any UI,
00:17:55
like you can get almost all the way there
00:17:57
with just your voice interaction.
00:17:58
But let's say you call an Uber,
00:18:00
and you say, "Take me to
the studio from an Uber."
00:18:03
Even if it could do that, which it can't,
00:18:05
but let's say it could.
00:18:07
And as you're waiting, you're like,
00:18:08
"I'm gonna just go grab a snack
00:18:09
from this Starbucks on the corner."
00:18:11
How do you adjust your
pickup location with this?
00:18:17
Ugh.
00:18:18
Just that friction of,
00:18:19
I could just do it in
two seconds on my phone.
00:18:21
Or buying something online is another one.
00:18:23
I've seen a lot of demos
where someone's like,
00:18:25
"Plan me a trip to Europe.
00:18:27
Plan me an expedition."
00:18:28
I don't even wanna buy
detergent online on this,
00:18:31
because I need to check all
the ratings and the titles,
00:18:33
and make sure I'm ordering the right one.
00:18:35
I do not trust that with just my voice.
00:18:37
But I think most critically,
for the AI assistant part...
00:18:41
I actually love the idea
of a virtual assistant
00:18:44
that you can talk to like a human.
00:18:46
Like this is something
we've been chasing for years
00:18:49
with Google Assistant, and Siri and Alexa.
00:18:52
And now with this new
form factor of, you know,
00:18:54
a little AI in a box that
can be with you everywhere,
00:18:57
maybe that can deliver even
better on that specific promise,
00:19:02
But the thing about a good assistant
00:19:04
is it needs to know everything about you.
00:19:08
That's even true with a human assistant.
00:19:10
Like, it needs to know your schedule,
00:19:12
it needs to know where you go every day,
00:19:14
it needs to know who you talk to,
00:19:16
who your preferences are
personally and for products.
00:19:19
Like it needs to know
everything about you.
00:19:21
And your smartphone already
knows a lot of things about you.
00:19:26
But this is a standalone device
00:19:29
that doesn't talk to your phone,
00:19:31
and so it doesn't know any
of the things about you
00:19:34
that your phone knows.
00:19:35
So just from that,
00:19:36
it's already at such
a massive disadvantage
00:19:38
for the smartphone for being helpful.
00:19:40
I mean, you can do what I did.
00:19:42
Fully immerse yourself
for several days straight,
00:19:44
and tell it to remember everything,
00:19:45
and call people, text people from it,
00:19:47
but it will always have that gap.
00:19:50
And that's not even
mentioning this, like I said,
00:19:52
it has its own phone number,
00:19:53
and so if you text people
and call people from this,
00:19:57
yeah, it can summarize all of
your messages from the day,
00:20:00
and all that stuff from
these conversations,
00:20:03
but it doesn't see any
of these conversations.
00:20:07
So if you're texting here,
00:20:09
this is not the same thread.
00:20:11
That gap is always gonna be there.
00:20:13
So I guess that begs the question,
00:20:15
why didn't they just make
this connect to your phone?
00:20:21
Everyone has a phone.
00:20:23
That's the question that I think
00:20:24
a lot of people are wondering.
00:20:26
And I think...
00:20:28
This is my theory, but I
think Humane wants this thing
00:20:33
to eventually be a very powerful
standalone device someday.
00:20:38
And in order to get it to that future,
00:20:40
they can't set the precedent now
00:20:43
of connecting it to your
phone, 'cause then that means
00:20:45
they have to remove that
feature in the future,
00:20:46
and they don't wanna do that.
00:20:48
So this device as it exists today
00:20:51
is hamstrung by its ideal
future version of itself.
00:20:56
It's like Vision Pro.
00:20:57
Like I talked about it
in the Vision Pro review.
00:20:59
It doesn't actually pair
to your iPhone in any way.
00:21:01
It's its own standalone computer.
00:21:03
And of course, Apple sees down the road,
00:21:05
that could just be like a
little pair of smart glasses.
00:21:07
You don't need an iPhone to use that.
00:21:09
But now, today, this thing is a victim
00:21:12
of its future ambition.
00:21:14
(mellow instrumental music)
00:21:18
It was really hard to come up
with a title for this video,
00:21:21
but I will say, at one point,
00:21:23
my working title for this was,
00:21:25
"This product is either
the dumbest thing ever,
00:21:29
or I'm an idiot."
00:21:31
Because yes, it's really,
really, really, really bad now.
00:21:37
But every once in a
while, and I mean a while,
00:21:41
I would use it,
00:21:42
and it would do exactly what
it's supposed to do quickly,
00:21:45
and I'd get it.
00:21:46
And I'd really feel like that's
how it's supposed to feel,
00:21:50
and I'd do another request,
00:21:51
and it would remind me of reality.
00:21:53
But here's an example, right?
00:21:54
I've said a thousand times, like,
00:21:57
my best ideas, golden rule,
00:21:59
they always show up when
I can't write them down.
00:22:01
Like when I'm about to fall asleep,
00:22:03
or I'm in the shower, or driving, right?
00:22:06
So I'm using the pin,
00:22:08
I'm driving to the studio
and I have an idea.
00:22:10
I'm not trying to write
it down on my phone
00:22:13
while driving or pull over,
00:22:15
but I had the pin, so
I'm driving and I just...
00:22:18
(AI Pin beeps)
00:22:19
"Remind me of this cool ABC outro idea
00:22:22
for the Humane review."
00:22:24
(AI Pin beeps)
00:22:25
And I just kept driving.
00:22:26
And it wrote it down, and it saved it.
00:22:28
- [AI Pin] Saving memory.
00:22:29
- And when I go check the Humane-
00:22:31
- [AI Pin] The outro idea
for the Humane review
00:22:33
has been saved.
00:22:34
- The voice is kind of annoying.
00:22:35
But now that's up in the Humane AI Center,
00:22:37
so when I arrive at the studio,
00:22:38
that thing that I told it to remember,
00:22:39
is sitting there waiting for me.
00:22:41
That was nice.
00:22:42
Or the other thing, the
unique first person videos.
00:22:44
I could put it in the center
of my chest, and take videos.
00:22:47
I would never want to
distract myself while driving
00:22:50
taking a video, but you know,
00:22:52
even though the quality's not great,
00:22:53
that's the most frictionless
version of that,
00:22:55
along with smart glasses.
00:22:57
That's great.
00:22:58
And I think number one,
on top of all of this,
00:22:59
is if you ask me like,
00:23:01
"Who should buy this device right now?"
00:23:04
I mean, nobody should buy
this device right now.
00:23:05
But if there's one person
who would most consider it,
00:23:08
it's the person that wants to spend
00:23:12
as little time as possible
with a screen in their hands.
00:23:15
Like as little time as
possible on their phone.
00:23:17
And that's me sometimes.
00:23:19
I don't wanna doom scroll
00:23:20
the second I pull my
phone out of my pocket.
00:23:22
For that person,
00:23:24
if they want that at the
expense of everything else,
00:23:27
this device represents just a glimmer
00:23:30
of hope for that future.
00:23:31
Now the problem, of course,
is with this device,
00:23:34
there's just so much more
friction and fumbling
00:23:38
and annoyance that comes with it,
00:23:41
that you don't wanna do it,
00:23:42
even though you would accomplish the goal
00:23:44
of less screen time and
living in the moment.
00:23:46
But yeah, that's the issue with it.
00:23:49
I literally had a moment,
00:23:50
like we did a shoot in Ohio the other day,
00:23:52
which was like a travel day.
00:23:54
And I woke up in the
morning and I thought like,
00:23:57
"I don't want to deal
with this pin today."
00:23:59
Like I have driving, so the
seat belt's gonna be annoying,
00:24:02
and then we're gonna go to the airport,
00:24:03
and then probably gotta take it off
00:24:04
through the metal detector
and then put it on again,
00:24:06
which means I have to log
in with the pin again and...
00:24:08
Just all this, and I just was like,
00:24:11
"I don't wanna have to
charge this seven times.
00:24:13
Like , I don't wanna wear it today."
00:24:14
So I skipped it.
00:24:16
And you should probably
skip this product too.
00:24:18
And never buy a product
00:24:20
based on the future
promise of updates to it.
00:24:23
Obviously, this is a product
that has a long way to go,
00:24:26
and there's a team behind it.
00:24:27
And look, I gotta say,
as a brand new product,
00:24:30
and a team trying to make something new...
00:24:33
That, I respect.
00:24:34
I respect the attempt.
00:24:35
Because we don't get a
lot of totally new stuff.
00:24:38
But yeah, this has a long way to go.
00:24:41
They do have a roadmap, actually.
00:24:43
I'll say.
00:24:43
They've shared it.
00:24:44
There's some decent stuff on there,
00:24:45
including number sharing,
00:24:47
but that also has no date
and no other information.
00:24:50
So I'll just say, good luck.
00:24:54
Godspeed.
00:24:55
Thanks for watching.
00:24:57
Catch you in the next one.
00:24:58
Peace.
00:24:59
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