The Humane Ai Pin Will Become E-Waste Next Week

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• garretble@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  “Become?”

  🌎🧑‍🚀🔫👨‍🚀

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  • sparky@lemmy.federate.cc ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I love that this meme can be fully depicted using emojis. I demand emoji versions of other common memes.

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    • Ogeon@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      💁‍♂️🦋

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    • OldChicoAle@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      🚶‍♀️👀😡

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    • Desso@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      🔥🐶☕🔥

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    • doopen@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      🔥🏠😏

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    • Fillicia@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      ☝️✌️ ✌️🤙

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    • KAYDUBELL@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      🤷🏻‍♂️ ☠️

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    • Driveway4964@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      😫👉😼

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    • kuberoot@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Not a meme, but relevant youtu.be/-ZNoNHk8lbQ

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• AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’m guessing that, unlike the Spotify Car Thing, there’s no conceivably useful application a jailbroken one of these could be repurposed for.

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  • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    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.

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    • AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      People have jailbroken the Car Thing and are using them to control home automation/media playback and display information.

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  • simplejack@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That hand projector might be fun for cosplay shit. Give Adam Savage box of old ones for his shop.

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    • rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      As long as you’re cosplaying indoors or at night. The thing isn’t bright enough for daylight.

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  • biggerbogboy@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    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.

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    • ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I think it relies on the server backend, which they’re closing down, to do pretty much anything including TTS

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  • Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    True. The yield is too small for it to be useful as a bomb.

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• Concave1142@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  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.

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  • nyan@lemmy.cafe ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    So essentially the same business plan as 95% of all tech startups of the past quarter-century.

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  • Brunbrun6766@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They wanted 1 BILLION, and they got $230 Million

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    • Damage@feddit.it ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Roughly 230 million more than I made in the same timeframe

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    • Evotech@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Insane they got even that.

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• floofloof@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Released in April 2024; killed in February 2025.

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  • DemonVisual@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I guess the buyer qualifies for a refund, I wonder if they would even want the device back

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• zipzoopaboop@lemmynsfw.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Hold on this might not be as bad as it sounds. How many sold? Like 5?

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  • criticon@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Did they really sold any? I’d think they all went to tech reviewers and influencers

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  • kokesh@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I think anyone paying for this must have been mentally challenged.

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• sunshine@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  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.

  www.theverge.com/24126502/humane-ai-pin-review

  …humane.com/…/34243204841997-Ai-Pin-Consumers-FAQ

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• Jeffool@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I sometimes think of “who bought these?” I mean, I’m a little bit of a data hoarder. I never want to lose those Google chats and emails I’ll never look back on. I downloaded my Twitter data (that I’ll never reference) before deleting it. But what nerd mother fucker like me, has the money to pay hundreds of dollars on this, and a subscription fee, for a service to take data I’ll never own?

  If I had that kind of money to waste, I’d just use that extra monthly subscription money to buy media to fill up servers (that I bought with the cost of the Pin,) on my home network.

  And I don’t even have a home network or a house, but bet your ass I’d have those and a million other things before this became a remotely attractive option.

  This is like Quibi. You see it and you can easily understand it on one, far-off, level… But here in reality I’m just left confused. “What were they thinking?”

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• CorrodedCranium@leminal.space ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It reminds me a bit of Garmin acquiring Pebble and discontinuing support. This does sound significantly worse though

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