@VraserX: What is actually the best hardware form factor for AI? My weird bet is earbuds with a tiny camera, powered by your smar…
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Speculates that earbuds with a tiny camera powered by a smartphone are the ideal hardware form factor for agentic AI, offering subtlety and natural interaction unlike smart glasses.
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What is actually the best hardware form factor for AI?
My weird bet is earbuds with a tiny camera, powered by your smartphone.
For truly agentic AI, the model needs eyes, ears, voice, location, memory and access to your apps.
Smart glasses are obvious, but people still find cameras on glasses creepy. They are also way less subtle.
Earbuds already feel normal.
Add a camera, let the phone do the heavy lifting, and suddenly you have an AI agent that can see, hear and act with you all day.
That feels like the real interface.
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