The Worst Product I've Ever Reviewed... For Now

The Humane AI pin is... bad. Almost no one should buy it. Yet.
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0:00 What Is it?
2:30 The Hardware
4:26 What Does It Do?
8:14 The Review (It's Bad)
15:00 Smartphones are OP
21:20 A Victim of Its Future Ambition

[@Mrwhosetheboss]

Spot on, their ambition is full on Star Trek, their execution is pure Toy Story 😅

[@siywl_classics]

Now imagine it being used as an access point and authentication for nuclear launch codes

[@TridomeYT]

😂😂😂

[@DevKamesh]

Yup😂

[@jevieyt]

lol

[@maskedtitan6372]

what baffles me the most is their audacity to charge 24$ per month for a product that you've already paid 700$ for.

[@MrModikoe]

$700 & a $24 subscription is total madness...

[@IemonandIime]

If you could completely replace your phone with it, that price would be acceptable

[@Kane0123]

Plus a data plan right?

[@savedfaves]

If it was a good idea, executed well with several days of battery life, a certain portion of people would justify the expense... but the concept is flawed because smartphones and smartwatches are conceptually better, much more useful and already exist, and for an affordable price.

[@sinatraforeign]

​@@IemonandIime huge if

[@NiazAslani]

🤣😂

[@lethatsinkin]

"this thing is a victim of it's future ambition", damn I didn't expect to see such hardcore lines in a tech video

[@lucasblanc1295]

Those are the kinds of devices that are ahead of their times. Tech is not there yet, the price is not there yet. But it leaves us imagining.

[@ImFangzBro]

Same thing with the Virtual Boy, tbh. You compare it to a modern VR headset, you can see the similarities.

[@Alestrix76]

its

[@JohnPetersonTX]

I could see this being useful for blind people. Seriously. When he asked the pin to describe the room, or identify the car. The lack of screen does not matter for them. Great review. Reviewers are not cheerleaders. They are our trusted advisors. Thank you Marques.

[@thelivingmystery.africa]

I completely agree a few modifications and it’s perfect

[@DH-rt3fk]

This is exactly what I thought when he asked for the room description. Making this an accessibility device would give it some promise and space to grow the product.

[@NadjibSamsung]

Still doesn't justify its insane price

[@podrumkaleto5042]

Or you could develop an app or software feature for the iphone. Because a phone already has a much better camera and you own one. I bet something like this already exists as well on phones.

[@htanenaspigkouinoskieginep8685]

it would be great for an accessibility device

[@notawesomebread]

The lack of a mobile app is 100% by design, because if at any point you pulled out a phone to set up something on the pin, you would immediately realize that the phone could do anything the pin can do but better. They want you to forget you already have a better device.

[@theshivelyshow5784]

and i guarantee most people are going to the website on their phone anyway

[@z50king29]

The goal is to be phone free, so they can't start it out connected to a phone and then take away connection later

[@hellowill]

If this was an app it wouldn't stand out from the 100, maybe 1000 other AI apps that simply wrap OpenAI/GPT. This is honestly genius from a product/marketing perspective. As an engineer, I have to hand it to those guys, they can get people interested in complete and utter bullshit.

[@monad_tcp]

@@hellowill I'm an engineer too, I'm baffled by the marketing over AI crap. Somehow they figured out how to sell boring statistics and tables of autocomplete as a fun toy and people liked it.

[@Beefy_McWhatNow90]

@@z50king29I feel like the Apple Watch could’ve done a better job at a cheaper price.

[@randalldeeb]

"Never buy a product based on the future promise of updates to it." That is great relationship advice.

[@lostchild2003]

ie, every EV built?

[@matomekgatle4023]

amen

[@4thorder]

LOL amen brother!

[@SuburbaniteUrbanite]

Yeah what about Tesla? All of that is promises yet tech freaks lap that shit up like it’s oxygen.

[@Pettywyze]

Great advice. I Could've used this 17 years ago . Would've saved me a lot in child support.

[@betric0077]

Soldiers..🪖

[@easy_eight2810]

Honestly, it's criminal how they charge you $100 more for a color change

[@ForceFreeTrainergirl06]

yeah but that's the same with most devices even down to household appliances sometimes! I don't understand why but.....

[@Pllayer064]

All companies do that. It's a scam.

[@McNasty43]

@@ForceFreeTrainergirl06 Depending on what color it is, whether it's metallic or gloss or has metal flake, etc, it really does cost more to paint. There's more coats needed for the different finishes, and time needed for those coats to off-gas. Especially in cars. Now in this case, $100 is fleecing you a bit, but I could see an extra $20-$50 being reasonable.

[@jimhalpert0]

@@Pllayer064 Usually those colors are limited edition

[@mxracingunlimitedltd7784]

@@McNasty43 Apple of all companies doesnt charge you for the different colors. Arguably a lot of the black, silver type style's look the same, but they do have colors as well..

[@Gwunhar]

People got mad about this review? This was...kind. You went out of your way to not just trash the thing.

[@hyperventalated]

My thoughts exactly. I expected him to fair, and he was, but he also gave it so much more benefit of the doubt than I would have. He tried his best to meet it half way and the product just couldnt make it.

[@docmanhtn8345]

I just see people defending marquees from invisible haters

[@pronoygms507]

@@docmanhtn8345 I just found a few of them already in the comment. Maybe you're blind.

[@God__Emperor_]

No some perma online twitter weirdos got upset. But they get upset about everything so who cares.

[@1200halo]

You can tell people who are upset didn't even watch it

[@kashrex]

That 'describe my environment' ability will be great for the visually impaired

[@fahdthejedi]

I think it’s the best use for this product!!

[@hawkeye7527]

I absolutely thought the same. Take this pin, tweak it so that it doesn't require visual queues and movements, and then it is perfect for the visually impaired. And the translation feature is an extra bonus!

[@manitoba-op4jx]

.... it would need a headphone jack

[@maddyrevenge]

Yeah this is really the only valuable differentiator from a smartwatch as far as I can tell. But then again, phones can already do it as well, so it seems like a big expense just for that purpose.

[@Legority]

true, but this is already a feature on many phones, especially iPhones. iOS has the ability to describe what is seen by the phone's cameras

[@omarsahyoun5284]

From the online hate i thought you SLANDERED the product and its creators. SAVAGELY slayed them. Then i watch this and im like, youre more moderate and kind than most

[@cargnome]

A lot of comments are saying that this could be a great product for blind people, and I agree for the most part. The biggest problem is the price tag. It's like, "I know you're blind, so here's a product that only does half as much as a smart phone, but at the same price plus a subscription service." As if we're charging them more for being blind. Also, the laser projector would be useless for a blind person.

[@stacuee]

it definitely has potential to be beneficial for someone visually impaired but yeah it doesn't do enough yet nor have all of those accessibility points yet

[@JB-DJ]

21:09 That was smooth

[@DizzyBusy]

It could be developed more as a medical device or part of the service, like service dogs or wheelchairs for people who can't walk. Covered by insurance or just directly provided by the government. It could be more profitable for the company to sell directly to the government. That's usually a reliable contract

[@marcinf6324]

I agree. but you have Seeing AI which is free. He can also describe the environment, people, and read labels.

[@OnyxTyrant]

Yeah, but the way it currently is blind people would likely have difficulty unlocking it. It relies 100% on the projector.

[@adjgamer]

Please don't take this video down, I keep seeing pressure on you on Twitter but bad products should be called out. If a company actually fails after you said the product was bad, then it was going to fail on its own.

[@danielsilicon4993]

They're not going to fall. As long as there is a consumer base and with AI refining itself. People who buy this know exactly what they're getting. I think what needs to be called out are those who are way to quick to dismiss anything that isn't up to their expectations. It takes a certain type of person to value this product, as it is supposed to be a downgrade and something that can be improved on years down the line. Lots of people not only want to free themselves from the smartphone and doomscrolling... but also the online shopping, Uber and such apps that people are trying to get away from.

[@hydro9652]

@@danielsilicon4993I agree, although this product is terrible now I have a feeling in 20 years it will be a very convenient device. If anything this bad review is giving it more eyes on it then ever. I think it’s the future

[@slghtmedia]

⁠@@danielsilicon4993just delete the apps then. paying $700 for an actual garbage level device is quite the opposite of freeing yourself

[@JustJeff777]

@@danielsilicon4993This company was already failing long before this review.

[@ZanderRound]

He would never take a video down, good too see the big KZbinrs be brutally honest

[@Im_Behind_You]

Marques entering his villain era on main. Holy shit

[@necondaa]

Did you even watch the video?

[@sxrhad435]

@@necondaano need to imo

[@benadrylcucumberman981]

Bro only saw the title

[@necondaa]

@@sxrhad435 I’m going to

[@megatronskneecap]

@@necondaaEvidently not and a lot of other creators are saying similar things now the embargo on this product has been released. It’s good but not worth $700 with a $21 a month fee.

[@winwinpc]

I felt that. We now live in a world where in tech, they will sell unfinished ideas, get the money from the consumers and finish the tech along the way.....we're now part of their beta tests. Consumers buy products not ambitions. We aren't investors here. Tech should make life easier, not more complicated.

[@Mursheed_6]

Any one after A2D

[@lokeshsanjeevan1199]

Ofc ofc😂❤

[@ramastro976]

Ippotha bro😅😅

[@RC_RZ]

Dho 🫡🤣

[@aswinsrinivasan419]

hi soliders

[@rizkan4980]

We are everywhere ❤ From SriLanka

[@AmadeusAlmighty]

"Never buy a product based on future promises" is a phrase I keep hearing more and more often in review videos. I need companies to stop shipping beta products to consumers. You don't need my today money for a tomorrow product.

[@BlueIsLeet]

Funny thing is you've never developed or ran any tech products apparently... A lot of income is put right back into development especially for startups and this model is needed. crowdfunding, etc. Money needs to come from somewhere to keep building.

[@thebeatconnect1]

I slightly disagree. I think first product of anything is to gage interest and see if there's even a market. There's no point of spending millions to release something that may or may not be successful. However, I do agree on it does need to be polished. Even if it showcasing some of the potential features

[@EmirhanYasdiman]

​@@BlueIsLeet that's called investing. you know investors who invest in startups? that's where the money comes from.

[@BlueIsLeet]

@@EmirhanYasdimaneventually it must come from customers though right?

[@aliothspectranet5678]

@@BlueIsLeet I don't think most people develop or run tech products chief

[@cloverthird]

"It costs Seven Hundred Dollars plus a subscription" had to keep replaying that part

[@KiwiCatherineJemma]

I would worry that as soon as that company goes bust and stops billing you the $24 a month, almost all functionality will be gone.

[@Fireboss4321]

@@KiwiCatherineJemmaok but the thing is that we already pay 25+ dollars a month on phone data, this pin will ideally be a replacement of phones.

[@audio_boys]

And don't forget, if you want a different color that will be a light, breezy extra hundo

[@Mayflower-Yev]

@@Fireboss4321 All Imma say to that is a GIANT _hell no_ .

[@freefalling4271]

⁠@@Fireboss4321thing is, where I’m in, there are multiple data service providers. So if a service provider goes bust, which is extremely unlikely given their position in the market, then you can simply switch to another provider and your phone will still be as functional. This product and its lifeline ties solely to one random company. If it dies or it stops providing the service, then that product is as good as gone. This is a far far cry from replacement to phones. It will take maybe another 10-20 years of innovative development for this to ever stand a chance.

[@Astartes-6969]

The fact Marq got hate for being an Honest Reviewer is so dystopian. Like all you Whales are actually Pro Corpo? Keep doing what your doing Marq.

[@mohamedhubaib786]

*Hi Soldier* ❤ A2D Army

[@alwayz247]

I don't remember ever watching Marques start a review by saying: "This thing is bad at almost everything it does basically all the time." He knows how much power he holds when it comes to make or break for a tech gadget, especially a new gadget from an unknown company. So the fact that he chose to say this tells me how bad this device really is.

[@vu1cana]

Its pretty consistent with the other major reviewers i follow. Verge was pretty harsh as well but i think the most damning one is by mr mobile who very clearly is trying to love the product but just cannot.

[@outermarker5801]

Thought the same

[@paradonym]

He not just has the power to destroy a product, he has the power to destroy the company behind it. Like stocks are moving because of video uploads.

[@justahugenerd1278]

@@vu1cana The "I refuse to talk to you through this shit device" quote from Cogen was hilarious

[@DD23-1]

When you see its power, yes its very bad. I felt uncomfortable when it was telling you exactly what your surrounding is. Very creepy!

[@UyeGaming]

If it wasn't for the laser display, I would have felt like this device was made for people with poor eyesight.

[@bigfroggy22]

That's what I was thinking. Would be really useful for fully/partially blind people to locate objects and furniture in rooms they enter

[@fuzziestlumpkin]

If it was reliable, maybe. Anyone relying on this thing for actual help with sight issues is gonna end up in traffic though.Or at least with Frosted Flake marinara for dinner

[@andreab5185]

I think this is the future for a device like this, with an affordable price and performances, obviously.

[@shammy7042]

@@bigfroggy22 its not fast tho they will be doomed in a hurry lol

[@mbauerish]

Also for people that need other kinds of assistance. If someone gets lost guardians could not only get the GPS position but also a live photo that could be handy to locate them. Also they could communicate with a guardian/real human assistant at any time without the barrier of picking up a phone.

[@arunbandu]

A2D

[@Dave1502]

The worst thing about this is the $24 a month subscription without which the device is inoperable. It's basically a cell phone subscription which most people would already have. So you'd be paying twice for a phone service, and being held to ransom each month or face having a $700 piece of worthless aluminium lying in your drawer. You'd never be able to sell it on either.

[@CHAITHANYAkitta]

i was thinking just replace that AI with google voice, connect it to your phone, make it plastic and remove subscription, it becomes 10X better. also remove that battery in the back which attaches magnetically that should solve half the heating problem..

[@Mister_Durden]

Crazy that it wont connect to your phones data

[@4th_wall511]

I thought the worst part was if you pay for the service it doesn't even work

[@rockhurstu]

⁠@@Mister_Durdennot so much crazy…just an artificial barrier that makes them $. Most companies would rather sell you on a subscription than make an accessory that’s one and done sale. Very soon our phones will leapfrog these things.

[@James-es1fg]

I’m surprised they didn’t go public with the product with the soul plan of being aquired by google

[@snazzoid]

So basically, it does everything way worse than a $300 dollar phone while asking for a subscription on top of it?

[@jotarokujooraoraoraoraora]

Precisely lol

[@davekuss]

Technically your phone requires a subscription too, if you wnat to use it when not connected to Wi-Fi, it's just a subscription to a 3rd party telco

[@t6hp]

​@@davekussYes, but the pin also needs that. So, with the pin, you have two subscriptions as a base.

[@cbjewelz]

That’s what I’ve been saying for ages and everyone keeps touting “yea but it’s first gen”. It still needs to be useful. Keep the first gen in the lab then

[@Maximk0White]

Yep

[@sylwesterpastuszka5593]

This is why Marques is one of the best and why people trust him when it comes to his reviews. No BS, just honest review. Positives and negatives, if they are there he will tell you about them. Very good and informative video.

[@RockefellerSteel]

People said he was being too harsh, but when you remember that this thing is $700 + a monthly data plan, it’s pivoting itself as a competitor to smart phones. And it completely gets bodied by smart phones

[@iPtrck]

​@bubblepaw-iw6mdexplain your logic

[@mikaeruu0309]

@bubblepaw-iw6md well why not just buy a samsung phone that is better than an apple phone and ALSO better than a pin that isn't even as good as apple actually. Can you play pvz in this thing? nope!

[@Powderlover1]

@bubblepaw-iw6mdlol spot the android loser.

[@swift_ragee1962]

@bubblepaw-iw6md lol which iphone user hurt you?

[@cholling1]

@bubblepaw-iw6mdAnd a rubber chicken is even cheaper. What's your point?

[@Spellfork]

Wait, wait, wait!? They made a screen-less mobile phone, no physical buttons or controls and they are asking $700 for it plus almost $300 more per year if it's even gonna have any functionality... Now that's some next level crazy!

[@Vandassar]

Add another $100 if you want to have a different colour.

[@johnblomberg389]

AI Hype train🚂

[@chrisblake4198]

People said the same about early mobile phones. Then a few years later we got smartphones and now people with landlines are fewer by the day. I don't think they've got the right form factor yet, but someday someone is going to find the first step to the end of smartphones, and it will be clunky and expensive at the start too.

[@TheForbiddenOne55]

​@@chrisblake4198exactly. This is a solid idea with bad execution, but it is the right step in the way of innovation. Somebody will get it right one day....

[@insomnia20422]

THATS INNOVATION! THATS BRAVE AND STUNNING!!! and a bunch of horseshit...

[@pratheepraj123]

@A2D Channel soldier like👍

[@gingersoda2524]

Sootha muditu ponga bro

[@tnspironyt6281]

A2D Soldiers!!!!!

[@CubanB1978]

You didn't ruin this company. Their horrible product did.

[@ClavinZKL]

Yes he did..

[@evancono3298]

@@ClavinZKL Should people not call a product bad when its bad? We need honest reviews to know what to buy.

[@ClavinZKL]

This is the 1st of its kind. Yes it will suck BUT.. reviews like these actually help the company. But let's see how his tech will evolve.

[@whenallelsfails21]

​@@ClavinZKLoh whatever. For 700 dollars you get: "It has potential for the future...maybe"

[@PAASAMBOB]

@@ClavinZKLFor the tech to evolve, the company needs funding. They need money, it’s fundamental to develop anything. So hurting their sales isn’t exactly gonna help.

[@jonathanngo7452]

You could have dunked on them so much harder, but you absolutely did not. So constructive criticism is damaging enough to "ruin a company" these days? No. Your pre-alpha product ruined your company.

[@breadmoneyarchival]

Tired of having a screen in your hand? Well now your hand *is* the screen!

[@Doxsein]

In Soviet Russia, the screen hands you!

[@ManiSampathHemachandran]

நல்ல பதிவு.நன்றி.

[@blade990]

The problem is, it's NOT an AI in a box. It's a receiver and transmitter in a box. Everything is done on their servers/cloud. So nothing is truly being processed locally.

[@Holof92]

Are there any AIs that are not in the cloud??, genuinely asking

[@user-cm4wd1sn8d]

@@Holof92 At the commercial level, not many. Google pixel phones have built in tensor cores that handle some AI loads. However you can build and run open source AI models on most consumer hardware if you wanted to.

[@davidk1717]

@@Holof92 This totally depends on what you mean with 'AIs'. In general there are a shitton of AI features already in our mobile phones. Especially Apple has a high focus on running them locally on device. If you are talking about Language Models specifically, then not only in early beta phase. E.g. in the Google Pixel 8 Pro and the Samsung S24 will be Gemini nano available (which is an on device language model). Also Apple will most likely present something in that regard in the beginning of June at WWDC. Overall there is a lot of research going into making these LLMs smaller and more efficient in performance so we can move more powerful models onto devices.

[@rez9159]

@@Holof92Sure, stable diffusion is usually installed local and runs offline. There are many features of commercial software that are considered as "AI". In the field of audio production deezers spleeter stem extraction algorithm is widely integrated. And also stuff like Ozone relies on AI features. In foto editing there are also offline features. But AI is also a buzzword and there is not always a clear line if something is AI or another complex software algorithm, created without machine learning etc.

[@RazielXT]

@@Holof92 There are plenty of different AI models, some like LLaMA are small enough to download and run locally. But smaller you go dumber it usually gets, so best AI will always be run on servers because you need a LOT of RAM to load big model.

[@lofinchill9425]

As a consumer it’s important to have OPINIONS and well critiqued product reviews so consumers can manage their expectations. Companies are too comfortable putting out poor quality products and not getting honest feedback so innovation remains stagnant. Companies have no problem if you falsely misrepresent their products with praise & positive feedback but cry about the truthful negative feedback. Use the feedback to improve the products! Simple

[@chocolatecaramel4447]

Excellently stated!

[@saram404]

Came from twitter?

[@nickwallette6201]

I wouldn't say it's poor quality (and granted you weren't specifically saying this was), it's just... absolutely nothing but a proof of concept device. I can't imagine anyone who actually needs this, or would even materially benefit from it. It's interesting tech, and some of the concepts here could be very useful. But as a consumer-oriented item? uhhh... Who is this supposed to be for? So I don't know that this is even really meant to be a market hit. If I had to place a bet, I would assume this is designed to be, technically, a functional device. And it meets that goal. It allows them to register patents, develop point solutions that can be licensed to other manufacturers, and gives everyone something to add to their engineering portfolio.

[@lofinchill9425]

@@whosenameisitanyway customer reviews are generally to inform other customers. I’m not saying they don’t have a product roadmap but there could be insights from the review that they may not have realized was as much of a concern (like lag time, inaccuracies, etc). For $700 plus a subscription, it should be just as useful as my mobile phone..

[@stare4539]

yes

[@joswinthomas]

A2d

[@unknownff6665]

a2d👍

[@theweekthatis]

Thanks Marques, this will go nicely in my Fisker.

[@zuzutm3391]

I mean, whole electric car for 20 something grand, not bad I would say even if it slightly sucks.

[@theweekthatis]

@@zuzutm3391 oh yes, I agree.

[@SuntzuMocro]

😂😂

[@mondlit]

😅

[@NotADuncon]

Fisker? Hardly ever knew her.

[@ThofuGear]

700$ and a subscription for a voice assistant and a slow ass experience is wild 😂😂

[@GetPhiledIn]

$700*

[@evolicious]

Better yet, any smartphone from the last 20 years does what this stupid thing can do (and far better), for a fraction of the price.

[@ridass.7137]

@@evolicious*10 years

[@anapple6912]

@@GetPhiledIn people read it as 700 dollars not dollars 700

[@riotman3579]

Looks like a advanced version of life alert for older people. Thats the only group it may benefit.

[@princeprince706]

A2d👽

[@TheBatracho]

Smartphones truly are OP lol. We kinda take them for granted, but the number of devices they replace and the number of things they can do is truly mind boggling.

[@Seforagf]

Perdón, que significan las letras OP?

[@Iumertz]

@@SeforagfOverpowered (it means they are too great, incredible)

[@potatochan3080]

@@Seforagf OP es el acrónimo de "Over Powered", es decir que algo es demasiado poderoso y no le existe competencia.

[@adil.670]

I think phones are the ideal design for an assistant device , just a flat all screen small device that will only get more powerful , with more powerful processors and cameras maybe in the future will have even more things like a powerful projector so you don't even need a laptop

[@richardrackley2430]

@@adil.670 Wait until technology like Neuralink is normalized and you realize that that devices will soon just interface with our brains and send images to our eyes

[@desultorilypanacea]

"I don't trust this thing to order laundry detergent." 😂 Haha what a epic burn.

[@benjen5518]

😂😂

[@xXChoccyMilkXx]

Still better than Mac Pro wheels

[@christopher_campbell]

*an

[@handlemonium]

HumaneAI: Are you humanly inhuman enough to use it?

[@lanetimepditty]

@@xXChoccyMilkXx At least the wheels served their purpose...

[@WellnessWarriors009]

Soldier 🪖 assemble

[@DMariMuthu-xt5cp]

I searched and found you 😂

[@WellnessWarriors009]

@@DMariMuthu-xt5cp oh really

[@robotman011]

Fisker must be breathing a sigh of relief since they are no longer the worst product lmao

[@handlemonium]

Trollolo

[@ethanmartinez808]

😂

[@devonkennedy1386]

Well, I mean they are a completely different category of vehicle so I believe they are still the worst there

[@fakealizer8280]

Fiker has way more poteintial than this AI pin thing

[@Laharl890]

Is fisker still breathing though? 🤔

[@astrosoup]

This would be a lot more useful if it wasn't designed as a consumer product, but as a companion for someone working with their hands needing very specific assistance that it could be set up to do natively. Imagine a carpenter who could ask it for measurements or where they set their hammer, or for someone taking in a shipment, it could save the paperwork and double check it for any issues, etc. Devices like this need to be more specialized.

[@yokohamaborn]

Exactly! This is a great idea. It could be deployed with teams or workforces as well to enhance skills of workers, keep track of movements in warehouses, improve safety compliance, retrieve information from specific databases and local conditions (inventory, shipping status).

[@joshh345]

I was thinking law enforcement as well. They already have to wear body cams, something like this could act as a body cam plus add safety features like alerting dispatch if it detects shots fired, a crash, and real time gps. There’s potential in the right application.

[@thetoixhunter]

Genius! Maybe if we give police these they won’t be idiots😊

[@KillerRatedM]

@@thetoixhunterbro think police in general are idiots

[@claranguematio6717]

Jarvis 😊

[@AnandEditz]

Vaa arunachalam (a2d Soldiers) ... Nee inga varuvanu theriyum 😂

[@Kxxh883]

🤣

[@monica6396]

😂😂

[@LunarLinds34]

You were unbelievably fair AND kind in this review. Danny Gonzalez did a video on this same product month ago and I never heard anyone say anything about that

[@saucyboi7789]

Yea I watched it

[@rumadbruh]

Company only going after MKBHD coz he got more subs and reach.

[@kiiimiko]

I was wondering if this was the same product!

[@vivlodia]

yes!! lmfao I'm so glad someone else mentioned danny's video too

[@gigiapollo]

Marques is a legitimate threat to the success of this company. Danny never was. Danny making jokes at the expense of Silicon Valley bros coming up with goofy solutions to made-up problems isn’t poisoning the well of customers, they’re not watching his videos. Potential buyers are watching Marques, and his reviews are trusted for a reason.

[@Video_Crow]

22:15 I love that the absolute best use scenario for this product could easily be done by a $30 digital voice recorder

[@devonkennedy1386]

Can you please explain what “OP” stands for in the video??

[@wertot2752]

Overpowered

[@apollo4295]

​@@devonkennedy1386OP = Overpowered. It's typically a gaming term. "Phones are OP" means "Phones are extremely good."

[@qwerty-or1yg]

Or even our phones have it this day. Like "hey, Siri" just does the job.

[@dingus1720]

or by the smartwatch i already wear, or through carplay/android auto on the phone i already have

[@edwardmedina1236]

Oh - Hell no. $700 plus a $24 sub a month? So what, if you don't sub you can't use it? WTF? So a total of $988 and then every year I have to keep spending another $288 until the price goes up, I'm sure. So it does everything your phone does but worse? I get we get phones and pay out the nose for them and then pay for our connection, but the phone has the internet, a phone, a camera, a calendar, a reminder, about 10 million apps you could use from tracking your blood sugar to making flight reservations, maps, geolocation and everything in between. Wait! Can't you enable your Google Assistant on your phone and say "Remind me of blah, blah, blah in an hour" and it will do that and you don't have to click on anything on your phone or do I have a superphone? Thank you for this review.

[@Aburner1109]

yeah, it's legitimately very funny to me that this product was literally obsolete *before even being launched* but I'm also a little mad, because this could have been something interesting if it was more minimal and less expensive.

[@aravind6522]

Any one from a2d channel?

[@stevegonzales527]

700 and a subscription...? its like companies never learn that people are tired of subscriptions and on expensive gadgets...

[@456death654]

But they do it because there is enough people that don't care and still pay. Don't ask me why

[@alexlabs4858]

Not just any subscription… a $288 per year subscription.. Sounds lovely.

[@FcoEnriquePerez]

I mean, CELARLY done by ex-apple employees.

[@timsmith4970]

They need subscription to collect your data

[@NihongoWakannai]

There is no way this is made for the average person.

[@iDard3n]

5:44 missed opportunity to put super random items in the room to have it unveil lol

[@5GTrevor]

super hekkin random omgz

[@tokyowave9370]

@@5GTrevorabsolute quirky chad sigma Kai Cenat skibidi toilet bleach my ball hair lolz

[@dannymartial7997]

"What do you see?" "The Men in Black neuralizer, the iPhone 16, Tesla Cyber-Roadster SpaceX edition, and a McWhopper"

[@carlstevenwilletts]

Can you imagine how many LTT store products Linus would have put in the room?

[@Hideyoshi1991]

​@@tokyowave9370no dabu-dee-dabu-doubt

[@jodmemes4719]

A2D SOLDIER'S LIKE PANNUGAYA

[@thoughts_of_mine_]

Soldiers assemble ⛑️

[@redthunder6183]

11:40 if its dying in 2 hours, with no screen, no (currently) active camera, no local processing, and constantly warm even though it shouldn't be processing anything... and the whole product is based around AI, that happens to be bad. where increasing the training data will improve AI performance... you can be sure as hell that thing is recording EVERYTHING for more training data. I would read the terms of service agreement on that thing ASAP

[@rakdurrre]

I don't think it is taking photos to train itself. Could it be taking photos to learn more about you, your life, your habits, your activities?

[@BryanHaskin]

It likely phones home a lot and wireless charging would make it hot

[@megamegaO]

Honestly the battery is just shit.

[@redthunder6183]

@@rakdurrre most likely recording audio, which can be automatically transcribed to text and used to train and improve their language model which seems to be having the most issues

[@itsomegali5342]

​@@rakdurrre you are underestimating how much of a workload that is.

[@BBLRAOKWEN]

Remember back in the day when you could buy a product and it didnt come with a monthly subscription? 😂😂

[@DBRONCOSfan]

Pepperidge Farm remembers.

[@IndyAvocadoKid]

@@DBRONCOSfanHeh, this boomer shot soda out of his nose just now, thanks, my sinuses have never been cleaner😂jk

[@erinfindsen4953]

Gather ‘round children…

[@hamizannaruto]

Not really because TV is just a monthly subscription that is way too overpriced too.

[@tumbles8350]

"for a moment just forget about the smartphone in your pocket" *panic*

[@skunkjo3195]

I'm surprised there has been backlash to this (I came from reddit). I am not a techie at all and even I had heard about this product months ago. It's not like it's a mom & pop lemonade stand, this is like a big product. Also this was a great review! Measured, fair, interesting. I was expecting some crazy rant. Now I'm subbed!

[@Aburner1109]

Well I was blown away by this. A less versatile smartwatch that requires constant internet access to work is already an insane pitch, how did it get to the point where they decided it needed a terrible camera and unreadable green projector? This could have honestly been a good product for the blind or visually impaired, but instead they made it prohibitively expensive. For all their "human-focused" branding, this company seems incredibly cynical, and incredibly blind to what might actually benefit society. One of those things is cheaper products that assist the disabled.

[@jonathanjoestar275]

100% spot on

[@99seaweed]

In product design one of the first steps is creating fictional but realistic "personas", essentially forcing you to define your target market... I don't know what happened here for this product, they might've asked ChatGPT to create these personas.

[@RubiksQbSolver]

I was thinking the exact same thing.

[@user-qz5um1be6c]

17:26 The fact that he opened google for Google Lens instead of using the circle to search feature just to show how slow the pin is, is just wild

[@TheMightyBlackstar]

Thank you for your honesty and continued trusted advisory 🙌🏾

[@lordoftheyee]

Thank you for an honest, unbiased, and well rounded review. Dont let anyone try to change your opinion, or how you do a review. Keep up the good work.

[@WickidestTing]

They should pivot into making it a blind persons assistant. Add more features and price it slightly higher. I love the "Tell me wat you see feature"

[@jonathanisom]

I had the same thought. The camera being attached to your shirt would allow it to identify obstacles or items when shopping, give directions, read signs, etc while keeping a persons hands free. Otherwise the translate feature was the only other feature that seemed useful.

[@BillAnt]

Exactly my first thought too, may a useful for the visually challenged but definitely not for the general public. A voice and projection interface is never going to be faster and especially more accurate than a touch display, vision is a primary human interface.

[@PathwaysOfZen]

They've probably invested too much at this point to have it only cater to such a small demographic.

[@Jwm367t]

literally the plot line to the Kdrama Start-Up

[@MrElliotGear]

what a great idea! They could just do away with the clumsy fist projector interaction thingy and just have it as an assistant so blind people could simply say "help me find the supermarket" and it could monitor everything and tell them "left here, walk 50 metres, right here" etc.

[@trumanhicks6404]

Not sure why there is a debate here. You are a reviewer it’s your job to tell us when stuff is trash. The day you change is the day you become something else

[@treznev.v2]

people love to stir drama for clicks, none of this is even real.

[@yDrewy]

The day it changes, is the day your under contract via sponsorship….

[@BobRadu]

For me it was the title. The review itself was very fair, the title was a bit sensational

[@joshuapowers4623]

It's not that there's a debate. What's happened is, starting with Musk being treated as a super genius for a decade after claiming he'd colonize Mars, these tech bros have grown accustomed to being judged today based on the things they say they'll eventually be able to do at some unspecified future date. That's now starting to cease to happen.

[@trumanhicks6404]

@@joshuapowers4623 “Tesla cybertruck by 2020”😂

[@dhruel]

This thing looks like a modern version of a prototype "smart device" that I saw a while back. That prototype thing was a micro projector and a Raspberry Pi-sized custom PC that hung around the neck like a heavy convention badge. A demonstration showed it reviewing a product on a shelf while displaying prices at local stores and other info, while using the product as a screen for the projected data imagery. As for the Humane AI Pin, I think a lower price point of maybe $200 and the $24 subscription could be better for those who can't or don't want to pay for a $500+ smart phone and $50+ cellular subscription.

[@lounirs]

I saw all the fuss about this video on Twitter, but now that I'm watching it, I feel like you're being really fair. I love how it always feels like you show the product as it is

[@dbecker33]

This seems like a product that they designed, hoping they’d get bought out by Apple or Google, but neither company showed interest, so they kept going, hoping and praying they’d convince a larger company to give them their billions so they could walk away…until they had no more time and no choice but to deliver the product 🤣

[@Goku17yen]

So true

[@wasteexpression]

I feel like apple should've bought them. it could be a really good companion to siri.

[@Carnaticmango]

This company is heavily funded by Microsoft who missed out on the whole smartphone thing.

[@EduardoVelezIII]

@@wasteexpressionI bet Apple would see this as just a worse version of the Apple Watch

[@mycelleismybffl]

its actually started by ex apple employees

[@stumbling]

There is a fundamental constraint being overlooked by the designers: audio is sequential, it is a very basic method of information transfer. We are much much better at taking in information visually, we can scan over a page looking for a particular phrase very quickly or get a quick understanding from diagrams and pictures, there is no audio equivalent to this.

[@eggsforpedro]

Spot on

[@XtergoBlue]

Let him cook

[@mathewhex7045]

This is an excellent point

[@DunMiCKeYZhao]

That's exactly why don't ever send anyone multiple 60" of voice messages.

[@TreeLibrary]

Or they will make free jazz audio

[@vishalcomrade2145]

A2D ❤❤

[@ed10523]

Hello Marques. This was Concise and well executed. You were actually Humane in your review. Take care!

[@keppycs]

Bluetooth earbuds synced to your phone can do mostly the same things. Turn it into a similar wearable accessory, add some powerful speakers, with the AI assistant from your phone, and it's basically the same product. And you don't even need an expensive ass subscription!

[@WolfCatBirdPigMan]

yeh you can squeeze your earbud and do 98% of what this thing does lol. What a fail of a product.

[@pjmmccann]

Yeah, but like, you know, ummm, Zen, man...

[@SilvioBritto]

Or a new voice oriented suite of stuff in the Pixel Whatches (Dick Tracy style)

[@morfasto]

And private.

[@a_a7287]

You could do this with a smartwatch too.

[@gregoryf9299]

Hey, hats off to the Humane leaders for convincing investors to get this idea off the ground! That was some serious salesmanship!

[@miac6376]

Love the positive attitude here😂

[@pinkisforpimps]

Millions of dollars 😊

[@Merc399]

Literally wtf

[@AkashPadmanabhanL]

There is a hype around a similar product called Rabbit. Its like a Humane pin with UI.

[@Mutantcy1992]

People invested in whatever Elizabeth Holmes was doing, and that product wasn't even possible.

[@john_c1]

Thank you for an honest review. So refreshing to watch

[@dhinesh-Bala]

A2D Soldiers😎

[@draconVR]

I don’t understand why people hate this review. Lots of people trashing on Marques for his review. He went out of his way to NOT completely rag on the pin, while also stating is many flaws. If I were in Marques’ shoes, I’d be absolutely destroying it. Figuratively, and MAYBE literally.

[@tylersmash7134]

Where's these comments I keep hearing about?

[@wotermelon_]

@@tylersmash7134 some twitter users (not regular folk), did not like this review for fucking reason, because it affected the company's sales and overall brand value too much, and he can't have so much influence on the industry due to the colour of his skin so they were pissed. Doesn't matter though, no real tech entusiasts were bothered in the least.

[@tylersmash7134]

@@wotermelon_ if it's a garbage product then the company deserves to lose money.

[@draconVR]

@@wotermelon_ I was gonna say haha. Yeah some people get really butthurt for no reason. People who likely won’t even use the pin.

[@pinguaina]

but then he fanboys over apple vision pro. Like vision pro is trash

[@smartereveryday]

Dude. I cannot think of a single tech review video that's ever made me laugh out loud like this one. "This.... thing is..... ad at almost everything it does......basically all the time." I appreciate you sir.

[@luisguzman2772]

Imagine the hell of trying to use this in a concert😂😂

[@rafaelskt4ever]

Hey Destin

[@green_universe]

I fear he's flaming everyone this year.

[@jakeb6043]

I knew it was a bad device but I didn’t understand it was a bad device until I saw this review. Lol

[@roejieks]

I’m getting dumber everyday

[@schonkigplavuis8850]

This is why i follow you for YEARS. you're a man of principle.

[@fredgrd]

especially when reviewing tesla

[@thebandit1x7]

Informative video. This why I watch your videos to learn about this products

[@johnsherby9130]

Having to charge every 2 hours is INSANITY. Absolute deal breaker for me instantly. That’s not negotiable

[@SteveBakerIsHere]

You have two of those battery things - so you need to swap the battery every 2 hours - and recharge every 4. If they can double that - problem solved. They could give you four batteries instead of two - but that would become a pain in the butt alarmingly quickly.

[@noidontwantanamebro5323]

​@@SteveBakerIsHereunfortunately it's still a pain in the ass. Even if they double it, you're still swapping out every 4 hours. For $700 and then $24 a month I'd rather just use my phone, it does more and doesn't die anywhere near as fast lol

[@karthikeyan020]

I mean… this only exists because Siri, Alexa or google assistant doesn’t integrate with multi modal LLMs yet. It’s not a future product. It’s a custom box that runs chat gpt

[@DayOldMeat]

That's a good thing, though. Those assistants are already clunky enough half the time without hallucinating everything.

[@haruyanto8085]

Exactly and itd bsd at it

[@LJCG777]

​@@haruyanto8085nice bunny

[@verb0ze]

right, this is useless once that happens, becasue you can keep your phone in your pocket and get most of the functionality through a pair of earbuds or smart glasses. The hand gestures are gimmicky, it's much faster to type on tthe phone if you need a screen. I'd be willing to play with this at $100-$200 price-point with no subscription (pair with phone for data service). $700 + a sub, this product is DoA!

[@maaraar777]

Hi soldiers 🪖💥

[@MrGeocidal]

Marques can criticise non-visual UIs and for the most part, I agree with him. Except for one thing. I'm not visually impaired but I've done some QA for accessibility on websites. Basically how well can you navigate with a screenreader while not looking at the screen. The screenreader is not a perfect solution, not because websites aren't built very well for accessibility (although they're not) but because translating a visual UI into a sound is already a flawed concept to start with. Using an Alexa with your eyes closed is vastly easier than using a computer + screenreader with your eyes closed. Your Google speaker or Alexa speaker doesn't translate a visual UI into sound because it wasn't using a visual UI in the first place. And that's why I hope they continue to develope various devices that use a sound based UI from the ground up instead of awkwardly translating from one type of interface to another.

[@jfitz6517]

This thing seems like something cool in a SciFi movie, but current tech can’t make it a reality yet. Yeah, you’re right, their mistake was trying to make a replacement for a smartphone instead of making a supplemental device.

[@Seattletyy93]

If this product was $39.99 with no subscription fee, I'd still have to wonder if it was worth buying.

[@AlanPina-nn5sz]

Exactly! For 19.99 I would consider trying that thing

[@maxhaughton1964]

For normal people yes, for someone extremely busy who doesn't want to use a phone all the time (getting a phone out is surprisingly slow and prone to distraction) you could probably sell these for a *lot* (if it was better).

[@benmcclelland5541]

@@maxhaughton1964 A lot sure, but 700 dollars is an insane amount no matter how good it is. That is like a flagship motorola phone or 1-2 generations back for an iphone or samsung. I could see up to 100 maybe if it was a perfect version of what they were trying for, itll simply never be worth the same as a phone

[@-Gax-]

​@@maxhaughton1964 You can get a fairly decent smartwatch for a reasonable price that does connect to your phone and is even closer to you than that pin is. It has more versatility as well, basically lose the projector. I've never met an extremely busy person who was well off enough to buy one of these who didn't already own a far superior smartwatch.

[@mumu135mumu554]

You're kidding right? For the price of a lunch you could buy this to test it out, I think most people would

[@MattCruikshank]

Since the hardware sounds nice-ish... They should just open source the firmware and let anyone develop anything on it that they want to. I could imagine the open source community going nuts and making this thing pretty decent.

[@BR0KK85]

But how would they then get the juicy subscription money out of us

[@razzledazzle84921]

Go on then, what should they build? 😂

[@ph0sgene967]

MAKE IT PLAY DOOM

[@craigpenninga6550]

Imagine an API that connects to your own personal layout of apps in that menu (where MKBHD rotates his hand), and you can choose what app to pull up, and you can customize it. I'd have it connect to spotify, a health app (which is connected to my phone to see steps and how far i've run), and who knows what else. The weather. Messages. Grocery list? I totally agree with Matt, the api/modding community would have a hay day. And for monetization, Humane could just make the modding api and keys which you have to pay for, so you get access to a very good base to do what you want. Further, they may not even need a subscription if we aren't using their AI features and doing it all local on our phones, because they need that money to pay for servers, power and all that computing power (which is hella expensive). As MKBHD said, they don't want to have their device supplement a phone and instead replace it, so they could still keep the old device with its subscription and Cloud computing but also give power to their consumers. Win win.

[@chevy_21]

Ha! So bad actors would just write line of code and have it overheat and blow up on people's chests?? Too big of a risk

[@Nostalgia_Realm]

"The tell me what you see" question sounds incredible for blind people!

[@TheUnburntGod]

I cant wait to hear your review on the Rabbit R1. I'm actually excited for it but patiently waiting your review

[@squeemlives]

this didn't age well

[@TheUnburntGod]

@@squeemlives lmaoooo facts

[@Natei]

Funnily enough, I feel its whole schtick is that it doesnt connect to your phone, but thats its biggest downfall. It could use your phones processing power instead of going to the cloud, itd know all that information about you to be a great assistant. But then they wouldn’t get to charge you a monthly fee that if you don't pay bricks your device. EDIT: yeah maybe people are right about the cloud thing, may take longer locally on your phone. Still doesn’t excuse it not connecting to your phone to get to know you and be a better device right out the gate. This thing is DOA because it wants to be something that you phone isn’t but completely fails on 99% of the things it aims to offer

[@jaydubya9265]

Def the biggest mistake

[@vhateg]

your phone ain't gonna do what a few thousand dollar GPU does in the cloud. They could have fit a Snapdragon whatever in the pin, just like in a phone, so you have the same processing power, but that ain't no GPT.

[@ZaHandle]

@@vhategThey could not fit a chip in that thing without destroying the battery life

[@oli.2844]

Or, just make an app. Better yet, just wait till Google/Siri received AI improvements over the next year and this thing would be laughable at best. This device serves no purpose except for maybe the visually impaired, for that I can see a product like this being useful.

[@metobabba]

it should be faster. if you ever used chatgpt voice you know what i am talking about. chatgpt also runs on the cloud. i think they use gpt4 api so i am not sure whats the problem.

[@rebirthresurrection6490]

Thats why we like your review, no BS, real consumer. +1 support for this guy

[@tinashe5366]

Appreciate the honesty in this review. That's why you're my no.1 Tech reviewer 💯

[@unknownedz4971]

A2D introduced u

[@rsjsurya2087]

Support from a2d army.. A2d army assemble here..🔥

[@mahmudomar2890]

Companies: There's no such thing as bad publicity Mkbhd:

[@danielmoerch4688]

I mean it is somewhat still good publicity. I had never heard of the product. Now I have. Even though I might not want to buy the product, I might still tell my friends "oh, have you heard about that AI Pin", and they might buy it, or talk about it to someone else about it. I honestly think publicity is almost always good, and such, there is no bad publicity.

[@contact594]

I would have loved it 15yrs ago!

[@Tochi68]

​@danielmoerch4688 as someone who works in advertising, this is the worst thing to hear. Because THERE IS such a thing as BAD PUBLICITY. Majority of people aren't idiots. If something is really bad, people will warn other people, not talk casually about it. I know this because I literally wrote my thesis about it, specifically regarding Huawei and its US ban. Even though it's still available in most markets in Asia, in my country alone, it basically disappeared in a span of one or two years.

[@wileycoyote9688]

@@Tochi68As someone who’s worked in advertising for 10 years, I completely agree

[@dankrigby5621]

The problem is that these conversation usually go like: "have you heard of the humane AI pin? It's so bad lmao"​ nobody will consider buying it if every conversation is about how bad it is and how much it will flop@@danielmoerch4688

[@Vintagesonic1]

Tech like this makes you realize how impractical the cool futuristic stuff you see in movies actually is.

[@cldpt]

Asimov and Kubrick are having the laugh of their lives. Even if they're both dead.

[@AdaptiveSystems]

and yet to get to the practicality of the tech in the future, somoene had to iterate through all of this crap....so someone had to have bought into it in those respective universes.....

[@Yamartim]

Meanwhile every executive that watched ready player one: "oh my god this looks like what everyone would want and not at all like a dystopia let's make it!"

[@DaReapa]

Its not impractical its not well executed. Projector and camera should be all that is in the pin and make the main device something like a wristband or smartwatch and utilize the phone for things we would normally like messages.

[@phunk8607]

they actually stole the Star Trek communicator

[@bdkamil95]

I’m surprised anyone would buy a spyware like this.

[@depodev]

I could probably see this tech being more catered towards blind/legally blind people.

[@alexmuler594]

You pay 700$ for a camera, mic, speaker, projector and battery, instead of using your phone. You pay 24$/month for internet access and the actual feature "AI", because everything is calculated in the cloud. This could just be a normal app for your phone with a subscription of 10-20$

[@SwedishWargoat]

This.

[@JustAFan444]

All these things are built into smart phones by default. There is no need for an app either.

[@TheWizardGamez]

@@JustAFan444that too. Google and Siri already do this

[@ImaginativeSage]

I came from Twitter/X to see what the fuss was about. You gave a completely genuine review, and in a professional manner. The reality is, the concept of this seems great, but the product really isn't ready for public use. More QA/testing would have easily caught a lot of the issues that you mentioned. On top of that, like you said, our phones can pretty much do this and some so $700 plus a monthly membership doesn't seem worth it at this stage. I think the company should take the feedback, improve the product, and request honest reviews for the updated product later down the line from the same creators who critiqued the original product.

[@ccapp3389]

It’s not that these issues weren’t apparent to humane, it’s that their incentive and pressure is to just get it out fast

[@car9melo]

The concept seems ridiculous 😂

[@chethranthirouvengadamsivakamy]

Anyone after watching A2D ? 🐒

[@vikrantkaul9406]

What is A2D

[@chethranthirouvengadamsivakamy]

@@vikrantkaul9406 @A2D is a awesome Tamil tech channel !

[@dopaminedreams1122]

What the zoomer is A2D

[@balakumar5681]

​@@vikrantkaul9406 Tamil tech KZbin channel