AI Wearable Makes Its Runway Debut at Paris Fashion Week

“Smartphones helped us evolve into the modern, connected humans that we are,” but now the world is ready for the next step, which is “screenless” computing, Humane Chairman and President Imran Chaudhri said at a TED Talks appearance earlier this year. Now, Humane has debuted what some are calling “a futuristic AI pin wearable” at Paris Fashion Week. Styled the “Humane Ai Pin,” the connected device is an “intelligent clothing-based wearable” that “uses a range of sensors that enable natural and intuitive compute interactions” designed to integrate seamlessly into users’ day-to-day lives.

Supermodel Naomi Campbell was the “first person outside of the company to wear the device in public,” TechCrunch writes of the device’s debut at Coperni’s Ready-to-Wear Spring Summer show in Paris.

Humane says the Ai Pin will be formally unveiled at a November 9 event, according to a company announcement detailing “the screenless, standalone device and software platform built from the ground up for AI.”

In a June article, TechCrunch described the Ai Pin as “able to — assuming Humane’s claims hold water — perform many of the tasks a smartphone can, but with fewer gestures and voice commands required.”

The Ai Pin “uses projectors, cameras and AI tech to act as a sort of wearable AI assistant,” Engadget explains, adding that it’s “powered by an ‘advanced’ Qualcomm Snapdragon platform” with the “mini-projector” taking the place of a smartphone screen. It also comes equipped with a camera and speaker.

“The future is not on your face,” Chaudhri said at TED Talks, alluding to AR glasses and VR headsets.

Able to be “clipped” (not pinned) to pockets, waistbands or lapels, the Ai Pin can be “activated with a tap,” and “offer a summary of emails and calendar invites, translate between languages and answer and place phone calls,” TechCrunch reports.

Humane was founded in 2017 by Chaudhri and Bethany Bongiorno, both Apple alums. “In the intervening half-decade, the firm has been largely shrouded in mystery, as it has put together the pieces of a mystery wearable, which it promises will leverage AI in unique ways,” TechCrunch says.

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