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The Humane AI Pin Is Exactly the Disaster We Deserve
Let’s just get this out of the way: the Humane AI Pin is a flaming train wreck.
I watched the reviews drop—I think it was last Tuesday... or maybe Wednesday morning? My entire feed just became a non-stop roast session. And honestly, watching MKBHD methodically take this thing apart in his review, calling it "the worst product I've ever reviewed," was both painful and incredibly satisfying.
Because this isn't just about a bad gadget. This is about an entire culture of tech-bro hubris finally getting the public smackdown it’s been begging for. For years, we've been fed this diet of slick keynotes, messianic founders talking about "changing the paradigm," and venture capitalists throwing obscene amounts of money at anything that sounds like it was ripped from a bad sci-fi movie.
And the Humane AI Pin is the perfect poster child for that nonsense.
A $700 Answer to a Question Nobody Was Asking
This thing was sold to us on a cloud of pure, unadulterated marketing fluff. Remember the pitch? They were going to free us from our screens. We were promised "seamless, screenless, and sensing" computing. My translation of that? "Clunky, useless, and barely functioning." It's a $700 pin that you stick to your shirt that gets hot enough to cook a tiny egg, has the battery life of a mayfly, and can't even set a timer correctly.
You spend all that time and money, get all these ex-Apple big-shots in a room, and this is what you come up with? I mean...
It’s a solution to a problem nobody has. Seriously, does anyone actually believe that holding your hand up to a tiny, janky projector is better than just… pulling out your phone? The phone that already does everything the Pin claims to do, but, you know, actually works. This is just shameful. No, shameful is too polite a word for this. It’s an insult to the intelligence of anyone who has ever used a piece of technology.
When Hype Meets a Reddit Firing Squad
And the gall to charge not just the initial seven hundred bucks, but a monthly subscription on top of it. I think it was twenty-four dollars a month? Maybe twenty-five? The point is, they want you to pay a subscription fee for the privilege of beta-testing their garbage.
This reminds me of that "smart" toaster I bought a few years back. It was supposed to connect to an app to make the "perfect" toast. Half the time the app wouldn't connect, and the other half it just burned the bread. I ended up just using the damn lever like a normal person. We keep trying to solve these non-problems with tech that just makes life more complicated. Just give me a button that works.
Anyway, the best part of this whole debacle wasn't even the professional reviews. It was watching the online forums tear this thing to shreds. I saw one comment on Reddit that just said, "It's a solution for the 0.001% of times you have groceries in both hands but desperately need to know the capital of Bolivia." And that, right there, is the whole story. The comments were full of people calling it a "spy device for your chest" or "a glorified Pager from 1996." Are you seeing this pattern too? People aren't just disappointed; they feel like they've been lied to. They see the hype for what it is.
They Built a TED Talk, Not a Product
This isn't a failure of engineering so much as a failure of imagination. It’s a failure of listening to anyone outside the Silicon Valley bubble. They built a product for a TED Talk, not for a human being. They were so high on their own supply, so convinced they were building "the next big thing," they forgot to ask if anyone actually wanted it.
And that’s why this is the disaster we deserve. We let the hype cycle get this out of control. We retweeted the slick announcement videos and let the VCs convince us this was the future. We let them think they could sell us anything.
Then again, these founders got over $200 million in funding and I'm just sitting here yelling at my laptop. Ah, who am I kidding, nothing's gonna change anyway. They'll just "pivot" and call it a win.
It's a $700 Paperweight
At the end of the day, what we have here is a perfect, expensive monument to delusion. It’s a testament to what happens when you prioritize a slick narrative over a functional product. It’s not the future of computing. It's not even the present. It’s an embarrassing, over-hyped, under-delivered piece of junk, and I, for one, am glad it failed so spectacularly. Maybe, just maybe, it'll serve as a warning. But I doubt it.
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