These reviews track with the feeble product demo TED talk released a year ago. It showed no function of significant value or evolution and was matched with an appropriately low level of charisma from the presenter.
The only nice thing I can think of here, and this is really trying to give them as much credit as possible, is that if your phone didn’t occupy your visual space as much it does it might be a better experience and leave you more in touch with the world around you.
Now, this doesn’t do that. Like, at all. But if we hand-wave all the engineering challenges and think about like a Star Trek scenario it’s not that insane. Ultimately it would still be limited, but imagine if you had to go an entire day with a friend of yours available via radio the whole time; you could ask them questions and they’d feed you back information in an intelligent manner. You couldn’t get everything a phone could do, but you might be less inclined to doomscroll if that entailed you asking them to read you awful news stories out loud, etc.
I do want to stress: I don’t think this is like…plausible, but I if I squint really hard I can at least sort of see the shape of an idea there, and it’s not an entirely unpleasant one.
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“Computer, make me look cool.”
“I’m sorry, Dave, I can’t do that.”
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[computer cranks up the A/C]
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