My thoughts on Humane–as the other "wearable AI" founder: FORM FACTOR Personally I built prototypes of all wearable AI form factors: pins, clips, watches, ear-pieces, necklaces, etc. Humane will have the following issues: · Choosing daily where to place a pin results in decision fatigue, and it's frustrating to fiddle with multiple pieces when you constantly take clothes on/off. · You wear it all day so the battery weight needs to be comfortable. Pins/Clips pull on your clothing, in their demo you can even see it sagging Imran’s heavyweight shirt. · It has to look socially acceptable so it must look like traditional accessories. But who wears a pin? While the design looks nice, it stands out too much. · You wear it outside so it needs to withstand the elements and be easily hidden. Again making you fiddle with the attachments as soon as it starts raining. All in all, Humane severely breaks the MAYA principle, which is often the main reason why breakthrough products fail. From my testing, an amulet style necklace is the only right way to go for an AI wearable. UTILITY Apple beat Blackberry not because of the interface but because the underlying customer experience was significantly more useful. A phone, an internet navigator, and a music player are all high value breakthrough products on their own. The Humane Pin is grasping at straws by looking at almonds and telling you what direction the eclipse is in — things that are not 10x upgrades to daily human existence wrapped up into a form factor and experience that is subpar. I believe the focus of AI wearables should instead be on passively collecting personal context of the wearer to feed into applications such as a proactive AI companion accessed via your phone. Simple, well executed, low cost AI wearables in conjunction with the smartphone will be able to replicate most of if not all Humane’s features without the user having to buy into a new ecosystem. This is not to say the ai Pin isn't elegant in software & hardware, but it doesn't mean that it'll win over lightweight solutions added to existing mobile platforms. But only the market decides. See you there next year 🫡

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