Let's sport talismans of astonishing allure

and connect to the kinetic and mystical

Everyone’s getting into the market of wearable AI devices. Over the course of the previous week, four notable wearable devices have emerged: Avi Schiffman's Tab, the Meta-Rayban Smart Glasses, Humane's Ai Pin, and the Rewind Pendant. (There’s also a rumour the Jony Ive of iPhone fame is collaborating with Open AI to design a new AI device.)

Avi Schiffman's Tab is a “neck thing”. (During the presentation Avi remarks that they debated whether to make it a neck thing, a wrist thing, or an ear thing). Avi makes a case for why it’s different and loops back to previous conversations about how people don’t usually know what to ask ChatGPT, so it’s easier if your neck thing just hears everything and then will give you helpful suggestions and feedback. His product is allowed to be a “neck thing” without a lot of style critique because he built a website to track coronavirus infections that was used by 40M people globally and a website that re-housed 10M Ukrainian refugees.

Meta Rayban makes it all about living in the moment while wearing Raybans and saying Hey Meta. Wearing them, you can livestream your trip to Dank Mart and send a photo of Lil Baby Rap Snacks to your mom with a voice command.

Humane is working on a device called the Ai Pin that uses projectors, cameras and AI tech to act as a wearable AI assistant. A mini-projector takes the place of a screen, so you can project things onto the palm of your hand. They pinned this to Naomi Campbell and debuted it at Paris fashion week in collaboration with Coperni, but it still looks like a bathroom scale.

The Rewind Pendant captures what you say and hear and then transcribes and stores it on your phone but it looks like pet cremation jewelery.

All of this to say, there are so many more possibilities for fashion and design to influence and impact wearable AI devices and more is coming…