I DO NOT GET IT
People Gave Them $230 Million For This??
What costs as much as an iPhone but didn’t need to?
Oh, my. Two former Apple employees raised almost a quarter of a billion greenbacks to start Humane and build a quasi-smart-phone that you wear on your lapel. It costs a hundred dollars less than a brand new iPhone 15 and does a whole lot less.
But Sam Altman of ChatGPT fame was one of the, umm, let’s be polite and say one of the people who put money into a startup that has a really good shot at the Ig Nobel Prize for technology.
No, that’s not a compliment.
I just listened to Wired’s Gadget Lab podcast about Humane’s Ai Pin product. The hosts did an excellent job restraining laughter as they valiantly tried to talk about the features and benefits. If I worked for Wired and had been assigned this task, I would not have been able to remain so composed.
In a nutshell, this is a phone that has no screen. It does have a display, or rather, you have it because it can write images and text on your open hand with a laser. You can take pictures and video with it, though you can’t really see what you got until you later log into their website using something that uses a browser like, oh, I don’t know, an iPhone, maybe? Or you can project it on your…
