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AI Startup Humane Shows Off Wearable AI Assistant
The unnamed device demoed during a TED Talk runs a custom AI assistant, and no smartphone is required.
By Ryan Whitwam April 24, 2023
https://www.extremetech.com/electronics ... -assistant

Artificial intelligence has been integral to many of the most significant technology breakthroughs of the last 20 years, but it's never been the star of the show. For the first time, artificial intelligence is taking center stage as the product while everyone rushes to leverage advanced language models to answer questions and make sense of an ever more complex world. What does the end product look like? A startup called Humane has an idea. Co-founder Imran Chaudhri just showed off the company's wearable AI gadget during a TED Talk, and it makes for a good demo.

Videos of the reveal are floating around the internet, but Humane isn't officially announcing the device until later this month (allegedly). The secretive startup has attracted a great deal of attention from investors, getting $230 million in investments from Microsoft, Qualcomm, and OpenAI CEO and co-founder Sam Altman, among others.
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Wearables can assess mental health, boost access to care
By Paul McClure
May 03, 2023
https://newatlas.com/health-wellbeing/w ... cess-care/
We all know that wearable devices can collect health-related data: the number of steps taken, floors climbed, calories burned, sleep time, and heart rate, to name but a few. But what about evaluating a person’s mental health? A new study has found that wearables can do that, too.

Motion sensors in wearables worn or embedded in clothing take a snapshot of a person’s day-to-day activities and sync them to mobile devices or computers. Advances in mobile networks, high-speed data transfer and miniaturized microprocessors have helped to make the wearable device an indispensable part of everyday life for many.

Resilience is a person’s ability to ‘bounce back’ or recover quickly from difficulties. It’s what gives people the emotional fortitude to cope with trauma, adversity and hardship and maintain good mental health. In 2019, one in every eight – 970 million – people worldwide were living with a mental disorder.
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weatheriscool wrote: Wed May 03, 2023 2:11 pm Wearables can assess mental health, boost access to care
By Paul McClure
May 03, 2023
https://newatlas.com/health-wellbeing/w ... cess-care/
We all know that wearable devices can collect health-related data: the number of steps taken, floors climbed, calories burned, sleep time, and heart rate, to name but a few. But what about evaluating a person’s mental health? A new study has found that wearables can do that, too.

Motion sensors in wearables worn or embedded in clothing take a snapshot of a person’s day-to-day activities and sync them to mobile devices or computers. Advances in mobile networks, high-speed data transfer and miniaturized microprocessors have helped to make the wearable device an indispensable part of everyday life for many.

Resilience is a person’s ability to ‘bounce back’ or recover quickly from difficulties. It’s what gives people the emotional fortitude to cope with trauma, adversity and hardship and maintain good mental health. In 2019, one in every eight – 970 million – people worldwide were living with a mental disorder.
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Now that sounds scary in the wrong hands.
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Source: Google planning to launch Pixel Watch 2 with Pixel 8
https://9to5google.com/2023/05/05/googl ... watch-2-2/
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Fitbit smartwatches are updated on a two-year cycle, while wearables from Samsung and Apple see annual refreshes. 9to5Google can now report that the Google Pixel Watch 2 is coming later this year with the Pixel 8 and 8 Pro.

According to a source, the Pixel Watch 2 — which may not be the final name but would match the naming scheme for phones — is currently scheduled to launch alongside the Pixel 8 and 8 Pro. Google historically announces and then releases its flagship phones in October.

Some may think this is a fast turnaround, but keep in mind that the original Pixel Watch had been in development for several years. It won’t really be a one-year-old product by the time a next-generation model is announced. For example, it had only 1GB of RAM at one point and significantly less storage.
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Garmin Debuts Fenix 7 Pro and Epix Pro With New Sizes, Nighttime Features

Garmin announced two new high-end smartwatches Wednesday, as the company continues to upgrade its lineup of fitness-focused watches. The Garmin Fenix 7 Pro and Epix Pro series are now available, with prices starting at $800 and $900 respectively. The two watches offer new features intended to help when doing a workout in a dark environment or at night.
https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/garmin ... -features/

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Apple revamps watchOS 10 with widgets, topographic maps, mindfulness features and more
Sarah Perez@sarahintampa / 11:32 AM PDT•June 5, 2023
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https://techcrunch.com/2023/06/05/apple ... 95I0ls5QvB
Confirming earlier reports, Apple’s watchOS 10 for its Apple Watch is turning out to be a fairly notable upgrade. At the company’s Worldwide Developer Conference today, Apple previewed the coming improvements to its smartwatch operating system, which include an updated user interface with a renewed focus on widgets, plus refreshed first-party apps, like Compass, Mindfulness, Maps and more, plus other new features.

The user interface for Apple Watch hasn’t seen a sizable update in many years, despite the addition of new features and a larger Apple Watch screen size, with the debut of the Apple Watch Ultra. Meanwhile, Apple’s plan to translate its App Store success to its smallest screen has been on the decline. A number of top third-party apps have pulled out of the Apple Watch App Store in recent years, including Messenger, Slack, Uber, Twitter, Amazon, eBay, and others. Meta’s WhatsApp recently launched its first-ever smartwatch app on Google’s Wear OS instead, despite its smaller market share.
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Second-gen Apple Watch Ultra coming this fall, new big iMac ‘in early development’ with larger than 30-inch screen
https://9to5mac.com/2023/06/25/new-appl ... -imac-pro/
In his Bloomberg Power On newsletter, Mark Gurman reported today on Apple’s upcoming product roadmap. Alongside the iPhone 15 lineup this fall, customers can expect the launch of Apple Watch Series 9 and a second-generation Apple Watch Ultra.

More updates to the Mac lineup, like M3 MacBook and MacBook Pro devices, are not expected until later this year or early 2024. Notably, Gurman reports new iMacs with 24-inch screens are in the works, after skipping the M2 generation entirely, as well as a brand new iMac model with a screen larger than 30 inches (this may be the long-awaited Apple Silicon successor the iMac Pro.)

For context, the old 27-inch Intel iMac Pro featured Xeon CPU innards, which would naturally lineup with the Apple Silicon Ultra chip platform as seen in the Mac Studio and Mac Pro.
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Exclusive leak: all the details about Humane’s AI Pin, which costs $699 and has OpenAI integration
It sounds like a smartphone without a screen, and it will have a $24 / month subscription on top of it.

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Humane has been teasing its first device, the AI Pin, for most of this year. It’s scheduled to launch the Pin on Thursday, but The Verge has obtained documents detailing practically everything about the device ahead of its official launch. What they show is that Humane, the company noisily promoting a world after smartphones, is about to launch what amounts to a $699 wearable smartphone without a screen that has a $24-a-month subscription fee and runs on a Humane-branded version of T-Mobile’s network with access to AI models from Microsoft and OpenAI.

The Pin itself is a square device that magnetically clips to your clothes or other surfaces. The clip is more than just a magnet, though; it’s also a battery pack, which means you can swap in new batteries throughout the day to keep the Pin running. We don’t know how long a single battery lasts, but the device ships with two “battery boosters.” It’s powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon processor and uses a camera, depth, and motion sensors to track and record its surroundings. It has a built-in speaker, which Humane calls a “personic speaker,” and can connect to Bluetooth headphones.

Since there’s no screen, Humane has come up with new ways to interact with the Pin. It’s primarily meant to be a voice-based device, but there’s also that green laser projector we’ve seen in demos, which can project information onto your hand. You can also hold objects up to the camera and interact with the Pin through gestures, as there’s a touchpad somewhere on the device. The Pin isn’t always recording or even listening for a wake word, instead requiring you to manually activate it in some way. It has a “Trust Light,” which blinks on whenever the Pin is recording.
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While it's actual usefulness at this early stage is yet to be determined, ie if it truly is as useful as or enough to replace a smartphone, I can't help but think of Star Trek's Combadge in concept. If you took this and transported someone using it back to the 1960s, they'd probably think we did actually achieve Star Trek level tech by now.
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Cyber_Rebel wrote: Thu Nov 09, 2023 4:31 pm ...and it will have a $24 / month subscription on top of it.
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