Tag: author_name|Nathan Ingraham
The Humane AI Pin debacle is a reminder that AI alone doesn’t make a compelling product
The demise of Humane is perhaps the most predictable tech story of 2025. The company tried to build some buzz around its AI Pin in late 2023, marketing the device as a tiny replacement for smartphones and playing up the fact that Humane’s co-founders were former Apple employees. The problem…
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Skate City: New York is a mobile game that manuals the line between casual and deep play
Skate City was an Apple Arcade launch title way back in 2019, developed by Agens and published by Snowman, a company well-known for its mobile-first games like Alto’s Adventure, the “sequel” Alto’s Odyssey, When Cards Fall and a handful of other intriguing titles. It’s been over five years since Skate…
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Sony’s XYN XR headset is being used in very different ways at CES 2025
At CES last year, Sony teased an AR/VR headset prototype focused on “spatial content creation.” And at the same time, Siemens announced it was working with Sony to use that same hardware, including the two new controllers it developed, for something it was calling the “industrial metaverse.” That’s a lot…
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The latest Freewrite device is a fancy mechanical keyboard built with writers in mind
The Detroit-based company Astrohaus has been making its “distraction-free writing tools” under the Freewrite name for about a decade. So far, those have all been standalone, single-purpose devices meant simply for drafting text, but Astrohaus is branching out at CES 2025. The company just announced a mechanical keyboard called the…
Read MoreThe latest Freewrite device is a fancy mechanical keyboard built with writers in mind
The Detroit-based company Astrohaus has been making its “distraction-free writing tools” under the Freewrite name for about a decade. So far, those have all been standalone, single-purpose devices meant simply for drafting text, but Astrohaus is branching out at CES 2025. The company just announced a mechanical keyboard called the…
Read MoreThe latest Freewrite device is a fancy mechanical keyboard built with writers in mind
The Detroit-based company Astrohaus has been making its “distraction-free writing tools” under the Freewrite name for about a decade. So far, those have all been standalone, single-purpose devices meant simply for drafting text, but Astrohaus is branching out at CES 2025. The company just announced a mechanical keyboard called the…
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