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I’m guessing that, unlike the Spotify Car Thing, there’s no conceivably useful application a jailbroken one of these could be repurposed for.
There are definitely things the Spotify Car Thing could’ve done.
It’s a potato, sure, but there are still uses. Displaying some PC information, weather information, using it as a macro-pad (someone actually did that one)… or doing the thing it was designed to do: show some album art and the song you’re playing, and giving play/pause, skip buttons.
Shit, even a desk clock would be better than nothing.
E: ah, I see you said unlike, not like. Never mind.
People have jailbroken the Car Thing and are using them to control home automation/media playback and display information.
Yeah, so they have some use
Yeah, we all know that. OP was saying that Humane Pin doesn’t even have that capability.
That hand projector might be fun for cosplay shit. Give Adam Savage box of old ones for his shop.
As long as you’re cosplaying indoors or at night. The thing isn’t bright enough for daylight.
I would wager that turning it into a clock that uses text to speech to tell the time when you tap the touchpad and the laser projector to see it visually, would be the only solution where it doesn’t overheat instantly.
I think it relies on the server backend, which they’re closing down, to do pretty much anything including TTS
Yeah, their “innovative AI operating system architecture” doesn’t seem very innovative now.
True. The yield is too small for it to be useful as a bomb.
I guarantee this was their goal all along. Build up something to have a larger entity come through and buy the company. Wish I had thought of it but I’m not a fan of screwing over the user base.
So essentially the same business plan as 95% of all tech startups of the past quarter-century.
They wanted 1 BILLION, and they got $230 Million
Insane they got even that.
Released in April 2024; killed in February 2025.
I’m curious what’s the financial outcome here for the customers? I don’t remember what Humane’s price model for these pins was, and none of these articles are discussing it. For example… Eh I’ll just look it up.
Oh my god it was $500-$700 up front plus a $25 monthly fee. That’s just horrible; will the customers be getting refunds? [Looks it up] Nope.
https://www.theverge.com/24126502/humane-ai-pin-review
https://support.humane.com/hc/en-us/articles/34243204841997-Ai-Pin-Consumers-FAQ
