[interactivecode]

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]

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.

[dangus]

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.

[throwaway314155]

I thought they specifically outsourced the design to another company (Teenage Engineering).

[jsheard]

That was the Rabbit R1, a similar AI wearable which similarly didn't work.

[MBCook]

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.