Wearables Have Flopped. Can Jony Ive and OpenAI Change That?
- Jony Ive, former Apple design chief, partnered with OpenAI in 2024 through a $6.5 billion acquisition of his AI hardware startup io, aiming to develop new AI devices.
- This partnership follows a decade of failed wearable tech attempts like Google Glass and Humane's AI Pin, which struggled due to user-unfriendly designs rather than technology limits.
- OpenAI and Ive combine AI expertise with design skills to produce a compact, unobtrusive gadget expected to launch in 2026 as a third device alongside smartphones and laptops.
- OpenAI CEO Sam Altman described the device as an extraordinary breakthrough in technology, while analyst Ben Bajarin predicted that AI-powered wearables could become available within the next one to two years.
- Though the success remains uncertain amid strong competition from Google, Apple, and Meta, this venture signals a possible turning point for wearables and AI-driven personal devices.
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Wearables have flopped. Can Jony Ive and OpenAI change that?
For more than a decade, Silicon Valley has been trying to convince us that the next big thing would be something you wear. The pitch was always slick: computers so seamlessly integrated into our lives that we’d barely notice them, devices that would augment reality and make us all cyborgs.Read more...


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