Seeing that it's a super flawed idea, surprising that Humane put in so much effort in this product. I thought it was just a quick cash grab attempt.
Reminds me of juicero, apperently it's engineering was also pretty solid.
Hacking the Humane AI Pin
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#32Earlier quoted context omitted.
I agree. It looked like a solution in search of a problem. Which is very common when everyone has big hires screens and oodles of compute power in their pocket. What can a new entrant offer which couldn't be an app?
Workstations put a computer on your desk. Laptops put a computer in your backpack. Smartphones put a computer in your pocket. (I’m not sure what is next, but it’s coming, eventually.)
Some people think it is the eyeball (glasses), some people think it is the brain (NeuraLink). Some people think it is the wristwatch. The pins were an attempt at a pendant. I don't think anyone has tried the necklace, yet. A glove might also be interesting. If the peripheral keeps shrinking, it could be a ring, or set of rings, or an earring. Or a fairy that follows you around like in Ocarina of Time. We could write a theorem about convenience of use and capabilities at different scales for peripherals. It is worth noting that some sizes never really go obsolete, but rather enhance in power and capability.
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#33Ooh, this is cool. The Humane was a cool form factor, and I always thought that hand laser projection thing looked awesome. Upshot is the author is a ninja and is building an open assistant platform on the pin, which first requires that the old pins be jailbroken. Significant (successful) effort ensues.
It makes me think of those laser projection keyboards that were widely sold as novelty items about 15ish years ago. It was futuristic even back then but considered mostly impractical
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#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
Workstations put a computer on your desk. Laptops put a computer in your backpack. Smartphones put a computer in your pocket. (I’m not sure what is next, but it’s coming, eventually.)
Some people think it is the eyeball (glasses), some people think it is the brain (NeuraLink). Some people think it is the wristwatch. The pins were an attempt at a pendant. I don't think anyone has tried the necklace, yet. A glove might also be interesting. If the peripheral keeps shrinking, it could be a ring, or set of rings, or an earring. Or a fairy that follows you around like in Ocarina of Time. We could write…
Interaction on smaller devices is harder, so they focus more on consumption. The smart glasses will probably be annoying to interact with so you’ll just get a TikTok feed of endless content and maybe a single input to skip the current content and train the feed.
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#35Seeing that it's a super flawed idea, surprising that Humane put in so much effort in this product. I thought it was just a quick cash grab attempt.
Reminds me of juicero, apperently it's engineering was also pretty solid.
The juicero wasn't well-engineered, it was overbuilt, and comically so. Apparently BOM cost did not feature in the product requirements.
There's a saying - anyone can design a building that stands, but only an engineer can design a building that just barely stands.
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#36A bit off topic perhaps but what's difficult about making this a product? Please forgive my ignorance. Its just a microphone, speaker, could be a Bluetooth controller and a battery, and have it go through your phone. Maybe a small local neural net to monitor for keyword locally. I guess it's a few more parts if you don't want it to go through your phone, but is that all that's happening here? What am I missing? Is th…
What do you mean by 'making this a product?'
Building proofs of concept isn't that hard.
When you need to produce thousands of them, and you've got market/product/engineering requirements, V&V, component sourcing, production tooling to set up, and, importantly, a budget, things get hard (or at least time consuming) quickly.
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#37Seeing that it's a super flawed idea, surprising that Humane put in so much effort in this product. I thought it was just a quick cash grab attempt.
While I agree it was ultimately flawed, I think it's likely that the core team at Humane genuinely thought this was the future of computing, and clearly put in a lot of effort.
... And maybe something like this is, it was probably just too early.
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The actual idea itself seems flawed rather than just the implementation. Ordering an uber on your phone and seeing where it is on the map is always going to be easier than trying to do it through voice and a hand projector. And the rabbit was just an android app bundled with a low end phone.
I agree. It looked like a solution in search of a problem. Which is very common when everyone has big hires screens and oodles of compute power in their pocket. What can a new entrant offer which couldn't be an app?
The answer is so clearly the glasses and always has been. Private audio output, visual information on a HUD.
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#39A bit off topic perhaps but what's difficult about making this a product? Please forgive my ignorance. Its just a microphone, speaker, could be a Bluetooth controller and a battery, and have it go through your phone. Maybe a small local neural net to monitor for keyword locally. I guess it's a few more parts if you don't want it to go through your phone, but is that all that's happening here? What am I missing? Is th…
They engineered it properly, which costs a lot. Rabbit R1 was much like how you described; repurposed cheap Android phone with minimal gimmick.
This one looked a lot more lovely thanks to the amount of brain juice spent on it, but otherwise, the end result was ~same.
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#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
Reminds me of juicero, apperently it's engineering was also pretty solid.
The juicero wasn't well-engineered, it was overbuilt, and comically so. Apparently BOM cost did not feature in the product requirements. There's a saying - anyone can design a building that stands, but only an engineer can design a building that just barely stands.
> There's a saying - anyone can design a building that stands, but only an engineer can design a building that just barely stands.
Haven't heard that one but it makes a lot of sense lol