This article is a goldmine lmao, but my favourite might be
There are no wake words so it’s not always listening, […] it doesn’t do anything until you engage with it, and your engagement comes through your voice
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They just need to make a version that looks like a Star Trek communicator badge.
Also requires 25/month subscription and you sacrifice privacy of all your shit lol
What’s your phone bill?
That said, this is gimmicky as fuck and won’t go anywhere.
My phone would absolutely not be replaced by this device and thus I’d be stuck paying two phone bills. No thanks.
Notice that in the video in their webpage they clearly state that you can “engage” with it by voice, touch, or gesture. But somehow it doesn’t have constantly on sensors? It’s also a subscription service on top of the $700 or else it is just an ugly useless clothes pin. And it can’t be tampered with or it disables itself and has to be reactivated by them. So, no right to repair. This is vaporware.
The projection stuff looks sooo gimicky and terrible to interact with. There’s also no way people will be talking out loud to interact with their messages and emails. This is essentially a bluetooth headset repackaged. This is not going to do well at all
Yes, I haaate voice activated stuff. Sometimes, dictating a text is nice. In the right surroundings where no one has to hear me over-pronouce every syllable. In a car is the best spot for this.
But the vast majority of the time, I’d rather wait until I can type or whatever.
Good thing it creates a bubble of sound so no one will hear your confirmation email for 2.5 liters of water based lube.
So the thing laser-projects onto your hand as a screen. Does this mean we can now expect cellphone assholes to blind us with lasers by dropping their hands while it’s still projecting?
And a bodycam that is on 24/7 that, unlike cops, you can’t turn off at convenient times, and is constantly reporting to a centralized corporation. I’m sure it’s not going to be another step on the privacy hellscape that is technology right now.
No way is something that size transmitting video all the time, or even processing it on board to upload summaries. The battery would last about an hour
According to the article (if you’d bother reading before commenting) it doesn’t record all the time and when it is, a little light on it would flash.
But seriously? You actually think that little thing could handle non stop video recording and storage without going dead every like 2 hours?
Not only did I read the article, I watched the original reveal during a ted talk six months ago and read the press releases then. They touted an AI assistant that would be context aware and anticipate the user’s needs, and evolve with the user. They faced backlash on social media then. How does an AI predicts your needs unless it’s listening and watching everything you do? Not just the camera but access to all your digital data as well. This new video is just to announce when it will be open for pre-purchase. But the led indicator and the “it won’t be listening to wake up” was added to address the criticism.
