The idea, as Button\u2019s creators would pitch it, is that you press the button and talk with a chatbot. which can answer questions and \u201ctake demands,\u201d as Wired phrases it. It has built-in speakers, apparently, but can also connect to wireless earbuds<\/a> or headphones<\/a> via Bluetooth if you don\u2019t feel like blabbing to your AI pendant out loud. Not to throw shade here, but Wired\u2019s account of Button misses lots of critical questions you might have about AI devices like this, so I\u2019m just going to run through what we still don\u2019t know about Button.<\/p>\n While Wired says \u201cinside is a generative AI chatbot,\u201d it\u2019s unclear to me if that means Button is processing AI on-device, which would be a big difference compared to relying on your phone. Wired doesn\u2019t mention which AI model(s) Button uses or whether they can be customized, and it also doesn\u2019t cover whether Button can be used on-the-go via cellular or whether it relies on your phone for internet via Bluetooth, though I got an answer to that part myself via Button\u2019s site. According to them, Button uses your phone\u2019s internet via Bluetooth and will not support Android at launch\u2014just iOS.<\/p>\n Another major gap is how the device is worn: it\u2019s a pin, but it\u2019s unclear whether it attaches magnetically like previous AI gadgets from the likes of Humane<\/a>. While Button\u2019s founders tell Wired that Button tackles one of the biggest pain points in similar gadgets\u2014response time\u2014it\u2019s also unclear how exactly it delivers its alleged quick responses. That\u2019s not even taking into account that response times are largely dependent on your connectivity at the time; the fact is, if you have bad internet, you probably have a bad chatbot. Unless it\u2019s done on-device! Which, again\u2026 we do not know for sure.<\/p>\n Button only works when you push the device\u2019s titular button, apparently, so it\u2019s not recording all the time, though Wired doesn\u2019t specify if it\u2019s a push-and-hold kind of thing\u2014I assume it\u2019s a push-and-hold kind of thing. Oh, and one last thing not mentioned in Wired\u2019s account: Button is selling subscriptions for \u201cButton AI Pro,\u201d which costs $7.99 per month, though it\u2019s unclear which features are paywalled. I\u2019ve reached out to Button with my questions and will update this post when I know more.<\/p>\n Even outside of the laundry list of open questions I have about Button, though, the whole thing just feels a little lazy. Humane\u2019s Ai Pin<\/a> largely sucked, but at least it tried something. Paying $180 for a button that just uses ChatGPT on your phone or whatever (if that\u2019s indeed what it does) is exactly the kind of thing that most people would consider sketchy. Trust me, I\u2019ve reviewed similar devices<\/a>, and it ain\u2019t fun. But hey\u2026 AI! Maybe simplicity will make this one feel more useful, but I get the feeling that I\u2019m going to be smashing the \u201cpass\u201d button on this one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AI gadgets might not have the best track record right now, but if a new startup from some…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":593247,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[62,276,277,49,48,61,9306],"class_list":{"0":"post-593246","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-ca","12":"tag-canada","13":"tag-technology","14":"tag-wearables"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=593246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593246\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/593247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=593246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=593246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=593246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Button](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/button-ai.jpg\")
Maybe she\u2019s asking, \u201cWhy did I buy you?\u201d \u00a9 Button <\/p>\n