• criticon@lemmy.ca
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      17 hours ago

      Did they really sold any? I’d think they all went to tech reviewers and influencers

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      14 hours ago

      I think anyone paying for this must have been mentally challenged.

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    21 hours ago

    I guarantee this was their goal all along. Build up something to have a larger entity come through and buy the company. Wish I had thought of it but I’m not a fan of screwing over the user base.

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    22 hours ago

    I’m guessing that, unlike the Spotify Car Thing, there’s no conceivably useful application a jailbroken one of these could be repurposed for.

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      21 hours ago

      That hand projector might be fun for cosplay shit. Give Adam Savage box of old ones for his shop.

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          Not being able to fully trust the results from the Ai Pin’s Ai Mic and Vision features (the latter is still in beta) is just one problem with this wearable computer.

          That’s the problem with ALL gen-AI!! They aren’t knowledge databases. They are pattern generators. When will people get this through their skulls?

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            18 hours ago

            When they are accurately called “text generators” and not “AI”

            But at this point so many people have been misled by it that it may not be possible to educate those that have already been misled just stop others from being misled.

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      18 hours ago

      There are definitely things the Spotify Car Thing could’ve done.

      It’s a potato, sure, but there are still uses. Displaying some PC information, weather information, using it as a macro-pad (someone actually did that one)… or doing the thing it was designed to do: show some album art and the song you’re playing, and giving play/pause, skip buttons.

      Shit, even a desk clock would be better than nothing.

      E: ah, I see you said unlike, not like. Never mind.

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      21 hours ago

      I would wager that turning it into a clock that uses text to speech to tell the time when you tap the touchpad and the laser projector to see it visually, would be the only solution where it doesn’t overheat instantly.

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      I guess the buyer qualifies for a refund, I wonder if they would even want the device back