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The Humane Ai Pin Is a Clunky, Limited Vision of the Future

This wearable, touch-activated “second brain” is too bare-bones and not all that useful.

The Ai Pin will read out its answer (it takes quite a long pause to think), but lifting your palm in front of the device will activate the “Laser Ink Display” and silence the spoken response. I wore the Ai Pin to a friend's birthday party, and every time I used the projector, the person sitting far across from me at the dinner table kept wincing and I'd see the green light flash across her face. I know the cofounders created it as a way to stay rooted in the real world and to avoid having a screen in front of your face all the time, but to achieve that goal, this thing needs to be 100 percent reliable.

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