Pinboard

This section groups the topics I want to make easily available. Think of it as some form of knowledge base.

Wearable AI projects

Pin / Pendant / Hand-held devices

Smart glasses

Project details

Humane Ai Pin

Website: Humane Ai Pin

Their core software is called CosmOS. They said it would be able to run on other devices that the AI Pin.
They also announced an SDK for second half of 2024. A roadmap can be found on the Humane Changelog page.

The reviews are now out (Apr 2024) and the consensus is that it’s a pretty bad product in it’s current state.

Some pros: the top-notch build quality and the vision of what this could be. Some cons: It’s expensive, slow, unstable, it gets things wrong a lot of time, it’s not integrated with your phone / usual apps, it’s hot / over-heating to the point it has to shutdown, the projector barely usable in bright environments, the voice input is not practical in loud environments or when privacy is required.

Some reviews on YouTube:

• The Worst Product I’ve Ever Reviewed… For Now by Marques Brownlee
• Humane’s AI Pin Is Not Ready for Prime Time by Scott Stein from CNET
• I tested the Humane AI Pin - It’s not good. by Mrwhosetheboss
• Humane AI Pin review: a $700 gamble by David Pierce from The Verge
• The Humane AI Pin solves nothing and makes me feel stupid by Cherlynn Low from Engadget

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Limitless pendant

Website: Limitless pendant

An AI pendant part of the whole limitless eco-system, which includes a web app and a desktop app (mobile app to come) that records everything you’ve seen, said or heard and provides real-time transcription and summarisation.

This used to be the Rewind Pendant (that was never released and is now replaced by the limitless one). The Rewind AI assistant software, that already works on Mac and iOS devices, is still maintained, in addition to the limitless software solution.

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rabbit r1

Website: rabbit r1

Their key component is the Large Action Model (LAM), a model that learns and understand UIs and executes actions as humans would.

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Tab

Website: Tab

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Compass

No website, information available on @ItsMartynasK X account.

Based on ADeus, at least initially. There’s some controversy about that, more info from Adam C.H. on X.

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Tap

Website: Tap

The company is Hole Systems, Operator is their “OS” product, Tap is their wearable product.
They intend to also release a Tap application.

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ADeus

GitHub: adamcohenhillel/ADeus: An open source AI wearable device that captures what you say and hear in the real world and then transcribes and stores it on your own server. You can then chat with Adeus using the app, and it will have all the right context about what you want to talk about - a truly personalized, personal AI.

Now merged with Friend.

Initial hardware: Coral AI or Raspberry Pi Zero 2W based

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Owl

GitHub: OwlAIProject/Owl: A personal wearable AI that runs locally

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Friend

GitHub: BasedHardware/Friend: AI wearable with 24h+ battery

Hardware: nRF52840 based

They currently have a kickstarter where you can get assembled hardware basically at cost: Friend: Open Source AI Wearable Recording Device by Nik Shevchenko — Kickstarter

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Whomane

GitHub: BasedHardware/Whomane: An open source wearable with camera

Hardware: Raspberry Pi Zero 2W based

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O1

Website: The 01 Project
GitHub: OpenInterpreter/01: The open-source language model computer

O1 light is their portable device.

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Terra

Website: TERRA — A COMPANION FOR MINDFUL WANDERING
GitHub: modem-works/terra

Quite different from the above, as it focuses an a very particular use case (Mindful wandering) but I like the idea very much and thought it should really be on the list.

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