i wonder how the rabbit is doing?
this post was submitted on 25 Apr 2025
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If you bought this e-junk in the first place you're kind of a moron.
This is a product that didn’t need to be built. Since it has, I’m at least pleased there are efforts to keep them from being relegated to landfills.
I feel like there should be a law to release the bits we need to support these efforts.
Too many times a product will die or a company will fold along with all its documentation.
Maybe release a final firmware opening up a product. Or at the very least a git repo with api documentation.
You're presuming they they had documentation
This is also the attitude taken by Ross Scott.
Agreed. At least there are efforts to salvage it.
There should be efforts to ensure it never happens again. All companies who abandon products or services should be forced to open source all associated code.
Why should greedy narcissists be allowed to waste humanities finite resources on their limp dick get-rich-quick schemes and failures?
I don't care too much when it comes to early adopter tech like this, which everyone knows will be obsoleted and laughable in 1 year. But the biomedical devices - we need a law about this, so people who get sense-restoring tech implanted in their bodies don't get bricked because the company decides the product isn't viable to bring to mass market.
because humans with resources (money) should be allowed to use it how they please, be it on tungsten cubes or pointless devices
because humans with resources (money) should be allowed to use it how they please, be it on tungsten cubes or pointless devices
Philosophically agree with you, and would love to see it okay out exactly as you say.
The problem with incorporating a business is that all humans therein pretty much escape liability.
The only value is the assets and intellectual property that can be sold off to another organization. Releasing all the proprietary data brings that value down to zero.
As usual, our addiction to market capitalism means the world is pay-to-play, and the risks will always remain higher than you or I would like or need.
Imagine having a thing like that but with a touch screen. Like, a rectangular assistant you can always carry with you! Oh, wait...
Why would anyone want to revive this piece of sluggish useless piece of crap?
if someone has ideas, I say let them cook. Open sourcing this can't be bad for anyone imo.
Though I agree in a way, I don't understand what anyone found potentially useful with this thing in the first place.
Maybe because it's got a CPU and memory, and because ewaste harms us all?
I'm all in favor of upcycling.
There are small language models out there that can run fluently on smartphones. I'm fond of StableCode as a coding tutor. My dream is to be able to speak to the tutor and see its code instructions without having to dig my phone out.
Why?
This is the question that should've been asked before it was built and shipped.
Now that it has been, though, any effort to keep it out of landfill and find a use for the hardware is good.
No, it's useless. Put your energy somewhere else like Linux phones.
Right, you're the boss.
But why
It sounds like they're trying to do whatever they can to replicate the previous functionality, but without the company who made it getting in the way, the hardware itself is kind of interesting. I hear the battery life sucks and nothing on it is exactly novel, but I'd be interested to see what people could do with it's fancy display options combined with everything else.
The hardware itself had a glaring flaw and that was that it would overheat every 5 minutes and even be uncomfortably warm on it's wearer.
might be unoptimized software issue
I'm curious, what's interesting about the hardware?
Small and easy to wear form factor, monochrome laser projector are the two most interesting. Also a camera, microphone, a lot other sensors, packed in a tight case. If you build something DIY usually you can't make it this small.
Why not?
Why would anyone need to run Doom on medical equipment?
I vaguely wonder what the actual overlap between the sort of people who would buy something like that and people who’d be willing to do this actually is, especially since they didn’t sell a lot in the first place.
I’m all for things that can extend its life one more time. Honestly if the hardware was capable of performing on various levels, I’d really like to replace my phone. But again I’m torn between getting a dumb phone or just go back pen pals to whom ever I need to write to/back
a cellular smartwatch might be an option for you, maybe alongside an e-reader.
how many smartwatches existed that can be used without a phone?
apple watch can be set up on a family members iphone.
is that actually usable (including app installs) for years without ever contacting a phone after initial setup?
you need to use an app on the phone to add/remove apps and updates. but really the app scene is stagnant.
i thought this thing has serious production issues... like battery problems that might not be solved by open source software
HP shut it down, so it's effectively a paperweight or trash otherwise. Judging by the image of it sitting on a desk in a 3D printed enclosure, I'd say they're probably not using it for its original purpose anyway. Pretty easy to solder in a bigger battery if you're not trying to walk around with it.
The only catch? You’ll need an interposer to set up an Ai Pin for use with OpenPin. You can either buy one or make your own.
Even more junk for landfill, to salvage a device that is inherently quite useless. It's good to keep the original hardware running but it's a shame this requires more hardware.
The pin runs some android based software as the website mentions adb. You can build your own interposer, and they are selling the current official one on Etsy, in a 3d printed case. ~~It doesn't sound like something made in a factory. I guess it uses some off the shelf usb to jtag chip or similar.~~
The interposer files are in this repo: https://github.com/MaxMaeder/OpenPin
From the bom it seems it's just a micro usb to pogo pin converter, no chip mentioned, so the pin has an usb port, but pogo pin form...
And just like that i went from being absolutely uninterested since inception into kinda wanting one.
For those too lazy to click through to the article and don't know what an Ai Pin is;
The Humane Ai Pin is a wearable, internet-connected AI device designed to offer a phone-free way to interact with an AI assistant from anywhere.