📁 Smartphone killer?

November 10, 2023

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📁 Humane's intriguing Ai Pin goes on sale next week

😎 I got Legion glasses for gaming, but I'm using them for ASMR

❗️ Heads up – your Google account may get deleted next month

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Humane's intriguing Ai Pin is available next week for $699

There's a lot of buzz around the device because, well, we haven't really seen anything like it

Six months after it was unveiled, Humane has announced that its unique screenless AI Pin device is about to go on sale.

Aiming to give the smartphone a run for its money, the device’s operating system runs a range of AI-powered experiences that are on the device and in the cloud – there are no apps as such.

You can interact with the Ai Pin via touch, talk, gesture, and, interestingly, a "laser ink display" that projects information onto your palm.

A neat part of the demonstration video shows how the Ai Pin can be used for instant language interpretation.

The Ai Pin is available for preorder from November 16 and will start shipping from early 2024. It costs $699 plus $24 per month for unlimited calling, texting, and data ...

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JLab's new Epic Lab Edition wireless earbuds

JLab's latest wireless earbuds promise its best audio quality yet, being the first to promise hi-res audio and to use a hybrid dual-driver architecture.

These Epic Lab Edition earbuds are also compatible with the new Bluetooth LE Audio specification, which can deliver lower latency audio for gaming applications.

Preorders for the $199 Epic Lab Edition begin on November 7 at jlab.com, with the first orders getting shipped about 12 days later ...

EXPERIENCE by Giovanni Colantonio

I got Legion glasses for gaming, but I'm actually using them for ASMR

'I quickly found that ASMR videos were a perfect match for the device'

It was Wednesday night and I was sick as a dog with some mysterious virus. I was on my back for the night – and that gave me the perfect opportunity to test my fancy new AR glasses.

I’d just gotten a pair of Lenovo’s Legion Glasses. They were sitting by my Legion Go so I figured I’d use them to enjoy some gaming on a giant 1080p display right in front of my eyes.

Since I couldn’t really get out of bed, I decided to strap them on and turn my ceiling into a screen. Maybe I’d do a few races in Forza Motorsport or a fight or two in Nickelodeon All-Stars Brawl 2 while laid up. I’d play neither of those.

Instead, I was peacefully lying in the dark while a YouTuber whispered in my ears about malt liquor.

Forget gaming, movies, or web browsing. Devices like the Legion Glasses have one true killer app: ASMR ...

ON THE HORIZON

Heads up – your Google account may get deleted next month

The new policy does not impact schools or business with a Google account, nor paying subscribers

From December, Google will begin deleting Google accounts that haven’t been accessed in the last two years.

That means that all of the personal information and data linked to those accounts will be wiped, including Gmail messages, Calendar events, Drive, Docs, other Workspace files, and Google Photos backups.

Google announced the plan earlier this year, citing security reasons. It bases this partly on its own research, which showed that unattended accounts are far more likely to be infiltrated by hackers.

It means that in some cases Google will be doing people a favor by deleting an account no longer in use, especially if it holds important personal data ...

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