The Dumbest Project happening in the Tech World right now

“The Pendant” will make your life worse if you buy it

Over the past year, we have witnessed a seemingly infinite number of AI projects emerge. There is, of course, OpenAI’s ChatGPT. Then its copies: Claude, Anthropic and Google’s Bard. Finally, we have the weird stuff, like Replika and whatever Meta is up to these days. For now, all are digital products, running on “old” laptops and mobile… which is a little boring.

Humanity will only see real innovation when it starts building specialised hardware with the sole purpose of interacting with AIs in the physical world. We have created all-knowing gods, and we must now give them a physical form. We know the end state will be in our image (iRobot, anyone?), but what will come before that? Perhaps Humane’s 700$ “Pin”, about which much has already been written? Meta’s smart glasses? Whatever Johnny Hive and OpenAI are currently working on with their 1B$ of funding? Whatever it is, I know for a fact that it will not look like The Rewind Pendant.

The Rewind Pendant: the Dumbest Project happening in Tech right now

Rewind is a company currently selling software that records everything you see, hear or say on your laptop. In October 2023, its CEO…