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- Author, Zoe Kleinman
- Role, Technology editor
A new AI-powered wearable device designed by two former Apple executives has been scorned by reviewers.
The AI Pin is a small square brooch which can answer questions, take photos and videos, and send messages.
Its maker, Humane, suggested it could “reimagine the human-technology relationship.”
Reviewers disagree: “this thing is bad at almost everything it does, basically all the time,” wrote Marques Brownlee.
One of the world’s best-known tech reviewers with 18.5 million followers on YouTube, in his 25 minute appraisal he described it as a good idea in theory – but in practice the worst product he had reviewed so far.
I have asked for my own hands-on with the AI Pin but have been told it is currently unavailable in the UK.
Initially only launched in the US, it costs $700, plus a $24.99 monthly subscription. Humane raised nearly $250m in funding to develop it.
It does not have a screen but can project images onto the hand of the wearer and comes with some basic gesture control.
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