News Humane’s AI Pin: all the news about the dead AI-powered wearable

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A promotional image of Humane’s AI Pin. | Image: Humane

After a very long windup, Humane finally revealed all the details of its AI-powered wearable at the end of 2023.

The small gadget could attach to your clothes using a magnetic battery pack so that it’s within easy reach. By tapping the AI Pin, you could ask it to do smartphone-y things like make phone calls, text your friends, play music, and catch you up on your email, and it had a laser projector built-in to cast the UI on your hand for control.

At $699 with a $24-per-month subscription, it was never cheap, never very good, and now, less than a year after launch, it’s gone. HP is acquiring the team and technology of Humane for $116 million, which will wind down services and support for the AI Pin after February 28th without offering refunds to owners outside the 90-day return window.

Here’s all of our coverage of the AI Pin.

• Humane wants to put the AI Pin’s software inside your phone, car, and smart speaker
• Humane recalls the AI Pin’s charging case due to overheating concerns
• Humane is pulling a Windows. Or maybe a BlackBerry.
• Six months later, Humane’s AI Pin is getting timers.
• Humane’s daily returns are outpacing sales
• Humane warns AI Pin owners to ‘immediately’ stop using its charging case
• Humane is looking for a buyer after the AI Pin’s underwhelming debut
• Humane says its AI Pins just got a GPT-4o upgrade.
• Take a look inside the Rabbit R1 and the Humane AI Pin.
• MKBHD calls the Humane AI pin “the worst product I’ve ever reviewed.”
• Humane AI Pin review: not even close
• Is this what actually using the AI Pin will be like?
• What if phones actually bent to our needs?
• The Humane AI Pin worked better than I expected — until it didn’t
• Humane’s AI Pin is slightly delayed, now comes with months of free service
• Humane lays off 4 percent of employees before releasing its AI Pin
• Here’s the inside of Humane’s AI Pin.
• Humane’s AI Pin will start shipping in March
• Humane will be updating its AI Pin reveal video to address a big error.
• Some journalists got to see Humane’s AI Pin.
• Maybe building a whole product off of generative AI might be a bad idea.
• It sure seems like Humane investor Sam Altman doesn’t care much for the Humane AI Pin.
• Humane officially launches the AI Pin, its OpenAI-powered wearable
• Exclusive leak: all the details about Humane’s AI Pin, which costs $699 and has OpenAI integration
• Humane’s Ai Pin could cost $1,000 — and require a subscription
• The Humane AI Pin apparently runs GPT-4 and flashes a ‘Trust Light’ when it’s recording
• The AI gadgets are coming
• The Humane Ai Pin makes its debut on the runway at Paris Fashion Week
• Humane will share more about its mysterious ‘Ai Pin’ the same day as October’s eclipse
• Humane’s first gadget is named the ‘Humane Ai Pin,’ and it’s coming this year
• Humane’s new wearable AI demo is wild to watch — and we have lots of questions
• Watch the first demo of buzzy startup Humane’s wearable AI assistant in leaked clips