{"id":303875,"date":"2026-02-18T07:21:22","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T07:21:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/303875\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T07:21:22","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T07:21:22","slug":"apples-ai-pendant-sounds-like-a-watered-down-humane-ai-pin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/303875\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple’s AI Pendant Sounds Like a Watered-Down Humane Ai Pin"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you were tempted to make the comparison between Apple\u2019s rumored AI pin<\/a> and Humane\u2019s notorious Ai Pin<\/a>, let me stop you right there. There\u2019s (reportedly) a big difference, and that difference is that Humane\u2019s defunct AI gadget actually tried to be something other than an accessory to your phone.<\/p>\n

According to Bloomberg<\/a>, sources within Apple say that the company is indeed working on an \u201cAI pendant\u201d that you can pin to your shirt or wear as a necklace. For all intents and purposes, it sounds a lot like a pin formerly made by Humane. It reportedly has a camera for computer vision, a microphone so it can be operated by Siri, and potentially a speaker so that you could have a back-and-forth rapport with Siri as well (this last one is reportedly up in the air, though).<\/p>\n

There is one thing that\u2019s different between the two, though, according to Bloomberg\u2019s Mark Gurman, and that\u2019s the fact that Apple\u2019s AI pendant likely won\u2019t do much of anything on its own. Apple\u2019s pinnable AI gadget<\/a> will allegedly \u201crely heavily on an iPhone for processing\u201d and will include a chip that is \u201ccloser in computing power to AirPods than an Apple Watch.\u201d Translation? It\u2019s not going to be doing any heavy lifting.<\/p>\n

\"Oakley\u00a9 Raymond Wong \/ Gizmodo <\/p>\n

That\u2019s probably fine, considering most people don\u2019t have any expectations for an AI pin to begin with, but it is a little deflating to know that Apple is seemingly taking the idea of Humane\u2019s Ai Pin and scaling it back. Maybe it\u2019s for the best. Humane\u2019s Ai Pin, as a quick recap, didn\u2019t really do a lot of what the company promised<\/a>\u2014it was buggy, prone to overheating, and it also cost a lot of money. On top of the $699 price tag for buying the pin, you were required to pay a $24 monthly subscription for cellular service in order to use the device while out and about. No one said killing the smartphone was going to come cheap, okay?<\/p>\n

Theoretically, Apple\u2019s version wouldn\u2019t be burdened by those issues as heavily, though, since it offloads computing to your iPhone and can also rely on its wireless connectivity for internet. Whether Apple can convince people to buy an AI pendant is another story entirely.<\/p>\n

And speaking of uphill battles, Gurman also dropped more intel on Apple\u2019s upcoming smart glasses<\/a>. According to the report, Apple will have another archetype in mind for its first pair of smart specs, and this time, that role model is Meta. Apple\u2019s alleged smart glasses will have two cameras, one for computer vision and another for pictures and videos. They\u2019ll reportedly have speakers and microphones, allowing wearers to make calls, play music, and snap pics and videos by using Siri. On top of that, they\u2019ll also apparently be able to use AI to do stuff like interpret text or provide turn-by-turn directions.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re reading all of this and thinking, \u201cBoy, that sounds awfully familiar,\u201d that\u2019s because those are mostly all things that Meta\u2019s AI glasses<\/a> can already do. Even if that\u2019s true, though, Apple\u2019s smart glasses might still take the crown due to their tight integration with the iPhone. As useful as Meta\u2019s AI smart glasses can be, the process of interfacing with your phone still feels disjointed at times, to no fault of Meta\u2019s. Something tells me an Apple-made pair won\u2019t share that problem.<\/p>\n

Both the smart glasses and the AI pin are tenuous, to be clear. Even Bloomberg reports that the pin is an \u201cearly stage\u201d and \u201ccould be cancelled.\u201d While smart glasses are much more likely to be released, what form they take is fluid, and so is the release date. For now, though, it looks like what we can expect is a bit more of the same, albeit with some Apple flourishes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you were tempted to make the comparison between Apple\u2019s rumored AI pin and Humane\u2019s notorious Ai Pin,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":303876,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[220,936,218,219,143402,61,60,16277,80],"class_list":{"0":"post-303875","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-apple","10":"tag-artificial-intelligence","11":"tag-artificialintelligence","12":"tag-humane","13":"tag-ie","14":"tag-ireland","15":"tag-smart-glasses","16":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303875\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/303876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}