Humane AI Ping Introduces Non-Physical Smartphones
Humane AI Ping is wearable projector it is fixed clothes and act as non-physical smartphone By flashing apps, calls and voice assistants on your hand or surface.Built from scratch using artificial intelligence and by the original apple Design Director Imran Chaudhri and his team, Humane AI Pin, debuted its overall capabilities at TED2023 in Vancouver, Canada. From early designs, the finger-sized pin is equipped with a camera to scan and see its surroundings, hidden sensors to wake it up, and a built-in speaker.
Chaudhri leads the introductory portion and is seen answering a call from his wife while a pin attached to his jacket flashes a phone in his palm. The moment he got a call from his wife, Bethany Bongiorno, who is also an Apple alumnus in software engineering, Chaudhry didn’t touch the usual green button on his smartphone, but apparently by his lexical command, he called the phone. I was able to get out. “I have to get this.” This phrase is synonymous with answering the phone and thus triggers the phone pick-up feature.
Chaudhri adds that users don’t even need a smartphone or other electronic device to pair with the Humane AI Pin, just wear it or pin it to their clothes to activate the feature. It may sound like an episode of Black Mirror, imagining people in a world where technology has become even more futuristic, but slowly but surely Humane is set to actually release wearable projectors and smartphones in the near future. I’m looking.

Image credit: Humane | Screenshot credit: TED
Wearable projector with smartphone functionality
Humane AI Pin deploys seamless, screenless sensing-based technology for wearable projectors and smartphones using optical sensors that enable contextual and ambient computing interactions. In another example in the video, Mr. Chawdhury asks Ping where his wife’s presents are before leaving town the next day. He first puts his finger on the pin, implying where the sensor is. After a few seconds, possibly seeking the right answer from question analysis, the Humane AI Pin returns a specific answer to his question (in this case, Granville Island, Vancouver).
Wearable smartphones and projectors can also act as voice assistants beyond web searches and quick queries. It also appears to act as a personal assistant, reminding users of health issues and helping them with indecision about health decisions. For example, Chawdhury holds a chocolate bar in front of a pin and asks if it can be eaten. A humane AI pin will give you a description of the chocolate bar and then answer. “Given your intolerance, you might want to avoid it.”
Chaudhri believes AI offers a huge opportunity to redefine people’s relationship with technology, making personal mobile computing faster, more powerful and easier to use. “The first humane device will allow people to take their Ai with them everywhere. he added. Humane’s first device will be powered by Qualcomm Technologies’ advanced Snapdragon platform.

Humane AI Pin is a wearable projector that flashes apps on your hand or surface, acting as a non-physical smartphone

The technology can answer calls using voice commands

Devices are equipped with cameras, sensors and built-in speakers

Visual interpretation of the device

Humane says it plans to release the device in the second half of 2023
Imran Chaudhri’s Humane AI Pin Presentation
Project information:
name: Humane AI Ping
start up: Humane
Founder: Imran Chaudhry, Bethany Bongiorno
Matthew Burgos | Designboom
July 3, 2023
