{"id":141740,"date":"2025-10-24T01:35:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T01:35:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/141740\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T01:35:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T01:35:14","slug":"whats-it-like-to-use-wearable-ai-tech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/141740\/","title":{"rendered":"What’s it like to use wearable AI tech?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Clipped to Karynn Ikeda\u2019s shirt is one vision of our artificial intelligence-enhanced future: the Limitless Pendant<\/a>. It\u2019s a sleek 1.25-inch-wide black aluminum circle that records all the audio around her pretty much all the time. <\/p>\n

The recordings and their transcriptions are stored in an app on her phone, where AI can summarize and analyze and answer questions about her every interaction.<\/p>\n

She opens her phone and reads me some of the reminders the AI automatically generated for her, based on yesterday\u2019s conversations with her husband, Philipp Comans. <\/p>\n

\u201cTop priorities, journalist visit today. You and Phil talked about tidying up beforehand,\u201d Ikeda says, laughing. \u201cIt quotes me, \u2018We should just tidy up a little bit before we go to bed.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

The AI also suggests taking out the trash and cleaning up the \u201cshoe situation\u201d at the front door. <\/p>\n

Comans also has a pendant. The couple doesn\u2019t wear the pendants while working, but turn them on as soon as the work day is over. <\/p>\n

Both Ikeda and Comans are software engineers in suburban Sacramento and are just generally really into AI. When Ikeda first broached the idea of buying an AI wearable, partly to record and summarize their conversations about tech, Comans was reluctant. <\/p>\n

\u201cI said \u2018absolutely not,\u2019\u201d said Comans. \u201cThis is a horrible idea. Like, why would I invite this in my life? And why would I put the most intimate moments of my life onto a server on the internet where I don’t know what’s going to happen with it?\u201d <\/p>\n

But Ikeda eventually convinced him. They were already sharing so much information online anyway. And at the very least, the Limitless transcripts were supposed to be only accessible to them. <\/p>\n

While the technology isn\u2019t perfect \u2014 it often mistakes Comans and Ikeda for one another, and doesn\u2019t really understand sarcasm \u2014 the couple says, for the most part, it\u2019s been helpful to have their conversations recorded. <\/p>\n

Even the fights. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe fact that it records the like, deeply unflattering things that you say right in a moment of weakness, or when you know you’re being really defensive, is kind of the stuff you really, actually need to see,\u201d said Ikeda. <\/p>\n

The Limitless Pendant is just one of a new generation of always-on AI wearables<\/a> that have recently hit the market. There\u2019s the similar Amazon-backed Bee<\/a>, a bracelet that records and transcribes everything you say. And there\u2019s the yet-to-be-seen device OpenAI and iPhone designer Jonny Ive are reportedly collaborating on<\/a>. <\/p>\n

While an always-listening AI may help Comens and Ikeda maintain their relationship, 19-year-old Maclean Dunkin was hoping the Limitless Pendant could help him start a new one. <\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve been on a date before and I\u2019ve worn it,\u201d said Dunkin. <\/p>\n

Dunkin works for Limitless as an engineer. He didn\u2019t want to replay the audio or read the transcript from his date for me, understandably. For the record: The date knew beforehand he was planning on recording. <\/p>\n

He said he\u2019s asked the AI for feedback on how his dates can go better. <\/p>\n

\u201c<\/strong>You can maybe, you know, debrief with your friends or something after. But they don’t have the context of, like, going on the date,\u201d said Dunkin. \u201cLike, how you tell the date is probably going to be way different than how the person you went on the date told the date, right? Like you have that bias, or maybe you’re not even noticing what you’re doing wrong.\u201d <\/p>\n

The Limitless Pendant costs around $300. The company says it\u2019s sold tens of thousands, but wouldn\u2019t give Marketplace a more specific number. <\/p>\n

There\u2019s no widespread adoption of these always-on AI wearables just yet. But if you work in AI, chances are you\u2019ve probably seen them. <\/p>\n

Although it\u2019s more distressing if you know they\u2019re probably there but you can\u2019t see them. <\/p>\n

\u201cI just always have my guard up,\u201d said Allie Miller, an AI consultant for Fortune 500 companies. \u201cI find myself looking around a lot more. I find myself looking at people’s wrists or necks or ears. I find myself tracking where the rest of their team members are. It’s not a great position to be in.\u201d <\/p>\n

At a recent AI conference, Miller found out another speaker secretly recorded what she thought was a private conversation without her consent. In most states, that\u2019s actually legal<\/a>. <\/p>\n

The covert recorder wasn\u2019t one of the newest generations of AI wearables. But Miller sees the possibility of a near future where everyone needs to assume they\u2019re being recorded at all times. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s made her less trusting and more careful about what she says. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a strange thing that part of being a human is a weak memory,\u201d said Miller. \u201cWe did not evolve to have every single thing we\u2019re saying or doing to be remembered.\u201d <\/p>\n

From her perspective, even if AI never forgets, maybe humans still should.<\/p>\n

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