Via The Register:
The advisor said that “it is a known issue in the Cybertruck that when you do a screen reset, instead of resetting in the standard two minutes, it takes five hours.”
I will never tire of hearing about this appliance-on-wheels’s woes.
As far as I’ve seen, most of these smart assistant devices that have been coming out can’t answer a pretty obvious question– why can’t this just be an app?
Seriously, I don’t know anyone who is going to want to carry another device around to capture this functionality, and the tradeoffs in functionality you lose from not having your phone (as fancy and sleek as some of these devices look) make you worse off. All of these demoes rely heavily on everything working out correctly, and you going along with what the assistant is saying it’s doing. You know what you’re going to want when something isn’t working? A large screen with direct input on the algo / AI that’s running the task (oh hey, like a phone!).
Paradoxically, the form factor is also the limiting factor for using a phone as one of these smart devices (size, weight, portability). So instead of an entirely new device, why not an accessary that takes all the strengths of a assistant-focused device and pair it to the phone as the processor?
The capture device (probably a combination camera, microphone, and minimal interactive interface) can be much lighter since they don’t need to handle processing on-device, and can probably be even more minimalistic since you you can offload secondary interactions to the phone.
Basically what I’m imagining is a revamp of the old iSight: a camera, microphone, and (now) interaction interface that is paired to your phone and serves as your assistant’s eyes into your context. Something like this:
Looks like the reviews are coming out for the Human Ai Pin, and the on-hand projection is as terrible as I would have expected when it was first announced.
I wonder if in all their design ideation they considered this Captain Disillusion video from seven years ago explaining exactly why this would be such a terrible idea?
Another fun application of AI-generated content: Udio lets you create music just from prompts. This basically completely removes the need for all that terrible stock music you have to use if you don’t feel like licensing the good stuff.
My favorites so far?
It would be nice if the Crossfade feature in Apple Music worked when you manually change songs as well rather than just abruptly starting and stopping the music.
That’d also be an elegant solution to implement some AI-powered stem blending for that authentic DJ experience.
There’s an inexplicable satisfaction that comes with filling the pages of a design notebook and adding it to the stack of predecessors.
While I may never find the time to thoroughly read through each page, these notebooks serve as tangible reminders of the daily dedication poured into design work. In a world where digital products often fade into the ether, there’s a comforting permanence in holding something physical.
Figma please just make it so I can organize my Pages like every file structure system since the 90’s.
A small web pet peeve: email fields that try to auto correct names to be capitalized.
Every work email I’ve ever had is my name lowercase, and the autocorrect is way too aggressive in trying to capitalize, which then makes the validation fail if the website is strict about upper and lower case letters.
If Apple is looking for suggestions of what to first use LLM AI tech for in Siri: allow it to summarize web results and then text-to-voice.
Then, finally, I can have some peace from hearing: “I found some web results, I can show you if you ask again from your iPhone.”
