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Hopefully it will also improve the product design engineering quality at HP. While the AI pin is a bit useless the industrial product design is at a high level.

Hopefully it will also improve the product design engineering quality at HP. While the AI pin is a bit useless the industrial product design is at a high level. From what I remember it’s mostly an core of Apple engineers

jsheard 2y ago
The charging case had to be recalled because it was a potential fire hazard, and the pin itself had a tendency to overheat during normal use. Hardly a success story on the hardware front.
throwaway314155 2y ago
I thought they specifically outsourced the design to another company (Teenage Engineering).
- jsheard 2y ago
  That was the Rabbit R1, a similar AI wearable which similarly didn't work.
  - MBCook 2y ago
    It wasn’t a wearable, it was a small portable device. It looked kind of similar to the Playdate game console if you know what that is. Teenage Engineering also helped with that, so it makes sense.
dangus 2y ago
lol, no it’s not. The basic premise that people would want to wear a device as a pin is an industrial design failure. The entire product is bad industrial design. Being built with nice materials is not automatically good industrial design. It was a scam destined to fail and HP is making a stupid acquisition of worthless tech.