Incredible New Device That Doesn't Do Anything Right

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It’s like if Siri had social anxiety and instead of saying “I’m sorry I didn’t quite catch that” it just tells you anything that will make you go away.

"I'm gonna eat it." "Enjoy it." This interaction took me out aushaushuasuahs

"...it's not always listening" Device lights up

As a native Mandarin speaker, that translation at 10:14 is so accurate that it was definitely not AI-translated lmao The word "get" in English has many different meanings (order, purchase, grab, detain, etc.) but Mandarin doesn't have a multi-purpose word like that, so you have to say whether you're ordering or purchasing or whatever And the AI somehow knew to translate "get" to "order (food)" (点) when the guy never said anything about food or being at a restaurant? Nah I don't buy it Edit: I somehow just realised I used the wrong character, whoops -- it's supposed to be dian3/点, which is what you use for ordering food. Ding4/订 is used for ordering packages. Sorry about that!

They feel more like AI than their product does 💀

I have a family member who worked on this. (During Thanksgiving break they brought one for us to play with.) The real-time conversation language translation was really the best thing about it. And controlling the “screen” with your hand. My family member said that the product creators hated what Apple phones/smartphones had become, because people weren’t “meant to look at screens their whole lives.” I guess the “a-ha” moment for the creators was going to a concert and most people weren’t watching the concert normally, but through their phone screens as they recorded it. So they made something that could do most of what phones could do, but you would still have your eyes on the world. My family member did say they weren’t sure how well it would do. 😬

I think this can actually help blind people or partially blind people a lot. You can ask it the color of your clothing, what fruit you are holding. It would be amazing if they specialized it that way imo.

5:31 Another hilarious error is their subtitling -- The voice says that the eclipse will be best viewed in East Timor, but their subtitles read "Easty Moore" which isn't a real place (according to Google anyway)

"Maybe you should have hired a spokesperson" was EXACTLY my response the first time I saw this guy talk about his product. Not only that, but the interviewers were thoroughly confused plus they picked apart the obvious flaws within seconds.

The fact that presentation video had no music is so insane like why would you even do that

I think part of why they keep mentioning that it isn't doing anything is because, since many virtual assistants respond to a trigger word, which means they're listening constantly to hear you use the trigger word. They understand what you're saying, and there are cases of phones using what they hear you talking about as a means to make advertisements more personalized.

9:15 Having the device be able to tell you the nutritional makeup of foods could actually be very useful, given the right context. For example, if you told it what kind of diseases and illnesses you had, such as diabetes, it could tell you what you can safely eat without having to worry.

I want a 90 minute video of Danny just walking around and asking the pin if he can eat random objects.

what is it about 9 almonds that’s just…perfect?

Just gotta say, I'm Australian and I was in Australia for the eclipse last night, and I didn't see shit. Probably because it was night time.

People are saying now MKBHD is gonna kill the pin but I'm pretty sure Danny already did

"Former Apple designers peddle their snake oil squawk box" really made me chuckle

The unstoppable desire to invent something new vs the immovable force of not having thought of anything new

damn I can't believe Danny killed the whole company with this video