Imagine a smartphone without a screen paired with ChatGPT that projects messages and menus straight onto your palm using lasers.

It may seem inconceivable for some, but the days of carrying around a smartphone everywhere might be inching toward its dusk. Increasingly, wearables are being positioned to offload our focus and interactions from a physical screen to augmented reality devices projecting images directly in front of our eyes, or in the case of the Humane AI Pin, right onto our hands.

Worn like a brooch and reminiscent of something between a Starfleet badge merged with the Apple iPod nano, the square wearable is basically the core of a smartphone extracted from its screen-based trappings and further enhanced by OpenAI?s ChatGPT to function as a screen-less smart assistant. Inside an Octa-core Qualcomm® Snapdragon processor with 4GB of memory and 32GB of storage powers a customized Android-based operating system. The top quarter of the device is slightly angled, allowing the camera to capture images more accurately in line with its wearer, imparting the appearance of very small angled calculator sans numerical buttons. Three colors options are available: Equinox, Lunar, and Eclipse
Guided by voice recognition, and sensing the world around it with optical sensors and microphone, Humane compels a more heads up perception of the world allowing users to capture what they see and hear without craning our necks toward a screen. The built-in f/2.4 aperture camera...