$700 & a $24 subscription is total madness...

Spot on, their ambition is full on Star Trek, their execution is pure Toy Story 😅

"this thing is a victim of it's future ambition", damn I didn't expect to see such hardcore lines in a tech video

From the online hate i thought you SLANDERED the product and its creators. SAVAGELY slayed them. Then i watch this and im like, youre more moderate and kind than most

The lack of a mobile app is 100% by design, because if at any point you pulled out a phone to set up something on the pin, you would immediately realize that the phone could do anything the pin can do but better. They want you to forget you already have a better device.

People got mad about this review? This was...kind. You went out of your way to not just trash the thing.

The fact Marq got hate for being an Honest Reviewer is so dystopian. Like all you Whales are actually Pro Corpo? Keep doing what your doing Marq.

Tired of having a screen in your hand? Well now your hand *is* the screen!

"Never buy a product based on the future promise of updates to it." That is great relationship advice.

Please don't take this video down, I keep seeing pressure on you on Twitter but bad products should be called out. If a company actually fails after you said the product was bad, then it was going to fail on its own.

I felt that. We now live in a world where in tech, they will sell unfinished ideas, get the money from the consumers and finish the tech along the way.....we're now part of their beta tests. Consumers buy products not ambitions. We aren't investors here. Tech should make life easier, not more complicated.

When I saw all the drama about this video, I had to assume you did something wrong. After watching it though, it was a genuinely thorough and honest review. Don't let people's sensitivity stop you from continuing to do what you already are.

I don't remember ever watching Marques start a review by saying: "This thing is bad at almost everything it does basically all the time." He knows how much power he holds when it comes to make or break for a tech gadget, especially a new gadget from an unknown company. So the fact that he chose to say this tells me how bad this device really is.

"Never buy a product based on future promises" is a phrase I keep hearing more and more often in review videos. I need companies to stop shipping beta products to consumers. You don't need my today money for a tomorrow product.

If a guy who drives a Cybertruck thinks it's bad it's gotta be really, really bad.

Let this guy cook, his reviews are valid.

Marques entering his villain era on main. Holy shit

That 'describe my environment' ability will be great for the visually impaired

"for a moment just forget about the smartphone in your pocket" *panic*

I saw all the fuss about this video on Twitter, but now that I'm watching it, I feel like you're being really fair. I love how it always feels like you show the product as it is

The worst thing about this is the $24 a month subscription without which the device is inoperable. It's basically a cell phone subscription which most people would already have. So you'd be paying twice for a phone service, and being held to ransom each month or face having a $700 piece of worthless aluminium lying in your drawer. You'd never be able to sell it on either.

"It costs Seven Hundred Dollars plus a subscription" had to keep replaying that part

This thing looks like a modern version of a prototype "smart device" that I saw a while back. That prototype thing was a micro projector and a Raspberry Pi-sized custom PC that hung around the neck like a heavy convention badge. A demonstration showed it reviewing a product on a shelf while displaying prices at local stores and other info, while using the product as a screen for the projected data imagery. As for the Humane AI Pin, I think a lower price point of maybe $200 and the $24 subscription could be better for those who can't or don't want to pay for a $500+ smart phone and $50+ cellular subscription.

You didn't ruin this company. Their horrible product did.

If it wasn't for the laser display, I would have felt like this device was made for people with poor eyesight.

I’m surprised anyone would buy a spyware like this.

Thank you for an honest, unbiased, and well rounded review. Dont let anyone try to change your opinion, or how you do a review. Keep up the good work.

The problem is, it's NOT an AI in a box. It's a receiver and transmitter in a box. Everything is done on their servers/cloud. So nothing is truly being processed locally.

I could see this being useful for blind people. Seriously. When he asked the pin to describe the room, or identify the car. The lack of screen does not matter for them. Great review. Reviewers are not cheerleaders. They are our trusted advisors. Thank you Marques.

I'm surprised there has been backlash to this (I came from reddit). I am not a techie at all and even I had heard about this product months ago. It's not like it's a mom & pop lemonade stand, this is like a big product. Also this was a great review! Measured, fair, interesting. I was expecting some crazy rant. Now I'm subbed!

This is why i follow you for YEARS. you're a man of principle.

So basically, it does everything way worse than a $300 dollar phone while asking for a subscription on top of it?

Wait, wait, wait!? They made a screen-less mobile phone, no physical buttons or controls and they are asking $700 for it plus almost $300 more per year if it's even gonna have any functionality... Now that's some next level crazy!

Informative video. This why I watch your videos to learn about this products

People said he was being too harsh, but when you remember that this thing is $700 + a monthly data plan, it’s pivoting itself as a competitor to smart phones. And it completely gets bodied by smart phones

As a consumer it’s important to have OPINIONS and well critiqued product reviews so consumers can manage their expectations. Companies are too comfortable putting out poor quality products and not getting honest feedback so innovation remains stagnant. Companies have no problem if you falsely misrepresent their products with praise & positive feedback but cry about the truthful negative feedback. Use the feedback to improve the products! Simple

Appreciate the honesty in this review. That's why you're my no.1 Tech reviewer 💯

Honestly, it's criminal how they charge you $100 more for a color change

Thanks Marques, this will go nicely in my Fisker.

First time I watch a video by marques brownlee and I'm so impressed. He's so intelligent and articulate. Not aggressive, not trying to be funny or be a star - just a great communicator summarizing his views of the product in a balanced, calm and well-informed manner. I've become a fan.

Thank you, Marques! It is really important that "reviewers" continue to be objective and honest. I used quotes in "reviewers" because some influencers use their audience as a cash cow, saying that every product - from a company available to pay them for their time - is good or awesome. This is not acceptable! Otherwise, influencers will die - and this is why I hate the word influencers. Regardless, this concept is just amazing! However, it seems to not be at its peak, either from a technology point of view, but also in a change of the paradigm. AI is still too scary to the majority of the World, hence, it is not viable for this company to hope in selling too many of these.

You could have dunked on them so much harder, but you absolutely did not. So constructive criticism is damaging enough to "ruin a company" these days? No. Your pre-alpha product ruined your company.

11:40 if its dying in 2 hours, with no screen, no (currently) active camera, no local processing, and constantly warm even though it shouldn't be processing anything... and the whole product is based around AI, that happens to be bad. where increasing the training data will improve AI performance... you can be sure as hell that thing is recording EVERYTHING for more training data. I would read the terms of service agreement on that thing ASAP

Marques can criticise non-visual UIs and for the most part, I agree with him. Except for one thing. I'm not visually impaired but I've done some QA for accessibility on websites. Basically how well can you navigate with a screenreader while not looking at the screen. The screenreader is not a perfect solution, not because websites aren't built very well for accessibility (although they're not) but because translating a visual UI into a sound is already a flawed concept to start with. Using an Alexa with your eyes closed is vastly easier than using a computer + screenreader with your eyes closed. Your Google speaker or Alexa speaker doesn't translate a visual UI into sound because it wasn't using a visual UI in the first place. And that's why I hope they continue to develope various devices that use a sound based UI from the ground up instead of awkwardly translating from one type of interface to another.

6:30 i would legit buy a pin like that as a "babel fish" auto-translator. For $30 tops, with free connectivity throuh bluetooth using your phone connection. For $700? Are you kidding me? Edit: oh wait, my phone earbuds can already do this via google translate. Phone wins again.

"I don't trust this thing to order laundry detergent." 😂 Haha what a epic burn.

Smartphones truly are OP lol. We kinda take them for granted, but the number of devices they replace and the number of things they can do is truly mind boggling.

That hand screen is awesome. It's gonna be cool in the future when they optimize this kind of stuff.

Any one after A2D

5:44 missed opportunity to put super random items in the room to have it unveil lol

This would be a lot more useful if it wasn't designed as a consumer product, but as a companion for someone working with their hands needing very specific assistance that it could be set up to do natively. Imagine a carpenter who could ask it for measurements or where they set their hammer, or for someone taking in a shipment, it could save the paperwork and double check it for any issues, etc. Devices like this need to be more specialized.

Oh - Hell no. $700 plus a $24 sub a month? So what, if you don't sub you can't use it? WTF? So a total of $988 and then every year I have to keep spending another $288 until the price goes up, I'm sure. So it does everything your phone does but worse? I get we get phones and pay out the nose for them and then pay for our connection, but the phone has the internet, a phone, a camera, a calendar, a reminder, about 10 million apps you could use from tracking your blood sugar to making flight reservations, maps, geolocation and everything in between. Wait! Can't you enable your Google Assistant on your phone and say "Remind me of blah, blah, blah in an hour" and it will do that and you don't have to click on anything on your phone or do I have a superphone? Thank you for this review.

Perfect review, completely unbiased and to the point. MKBHD quality 👌

They should pivot into making it a blind persons assistant. Add more features and price it slightly higher. I love the "Tell me wat you see feature"

700$ and a subscription for a voice assistant and a slow ass experience is wild 😂😂

I cant wait to hear your review on the Rabbit R1. I'm actually excited for it but patiently waiting your review

NEVER STOP WITH THE HONEST REVIEWS MARQUES ❤

Well I was blown away by this. A less versatile smartwatch that requires constant internet access to work is already an insane pitch, how did it get to the point where they decided it needed a terrible camera and unreadable green projector? This could have honestly been a good product for the blind or visually impaired, but instead they made it prohibitively expensive. For all their "human-focused" branding, this company seems incredibly cynical, and incredibly blind to what might actually benefit society. One of those things is cheaper products that assist the disabled.

Bluetooth earbuds synced to your phone can do mostly the same things. Turn it into a similar wearable accessory, add some powerful speakers, with the AI assistant from your phone, and it's basically the same product. And you don't even need an expensive ass subscription!

Thanks for staying true Marques. Your accuracy and free thought is what were here for.

22:15 I love that the absolute best use scenario for this product could easily be done by a $30 digital voice recorder

You were unbelievably fair AND kind in this review. Danny Gonzalez did a video on this same product month ago and I never heard anyone say anything about that

As an Industrial Design student, I learned a lot from this video. Amazing insight on product design and development! 👏👏👏

i would absolutely love this form factor for just a basic mp3 player. With modern phones ditching the headphone jack, it'd be nice to have a way to use my wired headphones for music without having another device to carry around, and something placed on the lapel makes sense for that particular application. The laser display is sick as hell, too, probably my favorite part of the product

700 and a subscription...? its like companies never learn that people are tired of subscriptions and on expensive gadgets...

A lot of comments are saying that this could be a great product for blind people, and I agree for the most part. The biggest problem is the price tag. It's like, "I know you're blind, so here's a product that only does half as much as a smart phone, but at the same price plus a subscription service." As if we're charging them more for being blind. Also, the laser projector would be useless for a blind person.

This review is 100 percent honest.. And I respect that

Around work when I don't always have my phone in my hand, this makes sense for professionals, but it needs to link to my phone for most stuff atm. This is the solution to screen time and doomscrolling tho, when it works faster this will hopefully be the new fashionable screenless phone. This is a good way to buy all your employees phones without having to also give them all a TV in their hand at the same time

There is a fundamental constraint being overlooked by the designers: audio is sequential, it is a very basic method of information transfer. We are much much better at taking in information visually, we can scan over a page looking for a particular phrase very quickly or get a quick understanding from diagrams and pictures, there is no audio equivalent to this.

Fisker must be breathing a sigh of relief since they are no longer the worst product lmao

A2D ❤❤

A2D soldier assemble

Not sure why there is a debate here. You are a reviewer it’s your job to tell us when stuff is trash. The day you change is the day you become something else

17:26 The fact that he opened google for Google Lens instead of using the circle to search feature just to show how slow the pin is, is just wild

I actually like this idea. Its a step towards the right direction. Because everyone is glued to their screens and can't get rid of their Smartphones because its how we pay bills etc. This is a good middle ground. It will allow you to be engaged in the real world but also be able to do needed task on a Mobile Device

நல்ல பதிவு.நன்றி.

I don’t understand why people hate this review. Lots of people trashing on Marques for his review. He went out of his way to NOT completely rag on the pin, while also stating is many flaws. If I were in Marques’ shoes, I’d be absolutely destroying it. Figuratively, and MAYBE literally.

mrwhosetheboss and mkbhd roasting the hell out of this

Soldier 🪖 assemble

Tech like this makes you realize how impractical the cool futuristic stuff you see in movies actually is.

Funnily enough, I feel its whole schtick is that it doesnt connect to your phone, but thats its biggest downfall. It could use your phones processing power instead of going to the cloud, itd know all that information about you to be a great assistant. But then they wouldn’t get to charge you a monthly fee that if you don't pay bricks your device. EDIT: yeah maybe people are right about the cloud thing, may take longer locally on your phone. Still doesn’t excuse it not connecting to your phone to get to know you and be a better device right out the gate. This thing is DOA because it wants to be something that you phone isn’t but completely fails on 99% of the things it aims to offer

A very decent and comprehensive review, taking into account usability, ecosystem, etc. Great work, and you've got a new subscriber!

I mean… this only exists because Siri, Alexa or google assistant doesn’t integrate with multi modal LLMs yet. It’s not a future product. It’s a custom box that runs chat gpt

Remember back in the day when you could buy a product and it didnt come with a monthly subscription? 😂😂

0:17 I love wearable glasses before i couldn't get them to stay on but know that i have a pair of wearable ones i can its really changed my life

Hey, hats off to the Humane leaders for convincing investors to get this idea off the ground! That was some serious salesmanship!

This seems like a product that they designed, hoping they’d get bought out by Apple or Google, but neither company showed interest, so they kept going, hoping and praying they’d convince a larger company to give them their billions so they could walk away…until they had no more time and no choice but to deliver the product 🤣

This was a very kind review. Also what is the hoodie you are wearing?

A2D introduced u

Thank you for your useful review. Ignore the people who hates you… we support you @mkbhd from Sri Lanka 🇱🇰

Having to charge every 2 hours is INSANITY. Absolute deal breaker for me instantly. That’s not negotiable

Companies: There's no such thing as bad publicity Mkbhd:

Tbh i really like gesture based navigation + projector minimalistic UI idea, seems fun I really hope its gonna pop up again sometime in the future.

Should've been a puck with mic, nothing else. Connected through phone controlled by app, keep the webstuff and expand on that and re-sell it without sub and lower the price because the puck will be barely any hardware

5:33 The whole idea of asking the device what it sees around you is actually really helpful for people with poor eyesight or no eyesight

You pay 700$ for a camera, mic, speaker, projector and battery, instead of using your phone. You pay 24$/month for internet access and the actual feature "AI", because everything is calculated in the cloud. This could just be a normal app for your phone with a subscription of 10-20$

Thanks for a honest review! It seems most KZfaqrs are just doing infomercials now

This would be really cool for people with vision problems... if it was more reliable.

Dude. I cannot think of a single tech review video that's ever made me laugh out loud like this one. "This.... thing is..... ad at almost everything it does......basically all the time." I appreciate you sir.

This product is a great example of someone inventing a problem to try and fix it instead of actually finding a problem in the real world that needs fixing