A former Apple designer shows you how to project a phone with an AI device

• Humane’s new device can project calls into the palm of your hand.
• The AI-oriented startup was founded by Apple alumni Imran Chaudhri and Bethany Bongiorno.
• Chaudhri demoed the device at the 2023 annual TED conference.

Humane co-founder Imran Chaudhri has a vision of an artificial intelligence future where devices will have a more subtle presence in the form of wearables and screens will be optional.

At the 2023 annual TED conference in Vancouver, Canada, Chaudhri appeared to demonstrate the power of such a tool by answering the phone in a rather unusual way in the middle of Thursday’s presentation.

Zarif Ali, a Toronto-based freelance journalist, tweeted a visual of the demo that appears to show Chaudhry, his former Apple design lead, looking at call notifications in the palm of his hand. was reported to

In a video of the event Ali shared with Insider, Chaudhri’s talk appeared to be punctuated by a persistent phone chime. But instead of reaching for the device in his pocket, Chaudhri simply turned his hand over and stared at his own palm.

“Excuse me, this is my wife,” he said, seeing the alert lit up in his palm about the phone. , takes a call from Humane co-founder and Apple alumnus Bethany Bongiorno.

“We believe artificial intelligence, or AI, will power the next leap in device design,” he said in his presentation.

A TED rep indicated that the video Ali shared was likely captured from a livestream.

A company spokesperson told Insider: Chaudhri and Bongiorno did not respond to Insider’s message seeking comment prior to publication.

At the event, Chaudhri also appeared to demonstrate the device’s ability to act as an assistant. At one point, before leaving town, he asked the device where he could buy a gift for his wife, according to a video shared by Ali that was seen by an insider.

Chaudhri also demonstrated the device’s ability to quickly generate French translations of sentences he spoke, repeated in an AI-generated voice similar to his own.

Humane announced in March that it had raised $100 million in a Series C round led by Kindred Ventures. OpenAI founder Sam Altman, who has become popular since ChatGPT’s runaway success, was one of his other investors.