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Ask AI-powered Rabbit R-1 for anything without touching an app. This is a little gadget

I don't know. It looks like it's about the size of a Game Boy or something. It's AI-powered

It can do pretty much anything you'd normally do with some combination of apps on your smartphone, according to their keynote

The idea is that it's not like a smartphone replacement. You know, this is a supplementary device

but instead of opening your phone and poking around and doing this and doing that by hand

you can ask it to explain something, you can call an Uber, order, meal delivery

or even book a fairly complex vacation itinerary for a few examples

It's basically a hardware of the device that's like what we wish Siri would be

except it's a separate thing that you can just buy. So unless an iPhone replacement

like compare this to the Humane AI pin, which I've regularly trashed on this show before

The rabbit R1 comes with a screen. Imagine that. And it also costs under a third of the price at just $199 with no subscription necessary

I mean, the industrial design on this is gorgeous. It was done in collaboration with teenage engineering

If you don know what they done they made like some expensive like audio gear and toys before that I have like no possible justification or use for or you know if I were to get one of those I wouldn even be capable of using like 5 of what it does But they all look incredibly cool Like I kind of wish I was an audio nerd so I could use some of their products and spend like thousands of dollars on their stuff

But the Rabbit R1 has a small like 2.8 inch touchscreen, you know, half the size of an iPhone

And, you know, it's like, what is it again? Is it yellow or red? I can't remember. I'm not looking

So me it looks orange. Yeah. Oh, okay. Whoops, I'm on the wrong story. And it has a spinning camera that they call the rabbit eye

So like all these advanced AI models, you can show it things that you want to learn about or, you know, take pictures or videos

It has a, the only other physical control on it is a scroll wheel that, you know, you can use to scroll through stuff

You can also click it as a button. And when you hold it down, that's how you talk to it

It's powered by a 2.3 gigahertz media tech processor. 4 gigas of memory and 128 gigs of storage

And it comes with this web service that they call rabbit hole. I can see what they're going for, but it's not a great name in my opinion

But, you know, it's a web portal that you can use to, like, you know, manage it from a computer or a phone

And, you know, as they say in their video, it's a simple little computer, but it's powered by not a large language model, but what they call a large action model, LAM, or LAM

or lamb its ability to understand you and the tools you use straighten a large amount of functionality You know it an app controller So you can say you know do this do that do that And it figure it out

You can, you can teach it things as well. So you can show it how you do something inside of an app and then it'll like replicate

that for you, supposedly. People who've watched the demo seem really impressed by it

But, you know, all those demos are kind of canned in some way or another. you know, I knows how to use apps

and it doesn't really matter what OS you're on. It can control these things for you

That's what I was unclear on. Like, does it control your iPhone or does it just do its own thing

Because it has a 4G LTE card in it. So clearly it has cell service

I'm so confused by this product. I mean, first of all, the damn thing looks incredible. I mean, like, they nailed their marketing

This thing may actually do nothing. And it still makes me want it because teenage engineering is their Apple industrial design team levels of talent

They create beautiful products that function very well. The user experience is top-notch

And this thing looks like some kind of wild computer from the future, except it's handheld

I mentioned, I don't know if we were live when I mentioned this, but it looks like a gadget out of the movie Her

which is a movie with Joaquin Phoenix, where everyone has these little AI devices that they keep with them in their pockets and it has a camera on it

And the AI the software that powers it is so lifelike that people begin falling in love with their computers because they having like these personal relationships with them and the computer is to like do things for them now obviously this is not going to do that but they say that it going to be able to do things for you and

I'm like how does that work like if I say call me an Uber how does it know where I am

how do I know when the Uber is getting close how much how much it's going to cost me like there's

all these things that you do in the app that it's just going to do for you how to is this a

standalone product or do I need to carry this in addition to my iPhone like there's so many questions, so many questions, so few answers

But they sold out the first 10,000 units, which was smart, they limited it to 10,000 units

the 200 bucks of pop. That's two million bucks right there. It's like as close as you could get to having a line of coat cloth, your own coat cloth list

But I don't know. Lots of people were hyped about this on Twitter

I also saw people completely roasting this. Like, you got to be out of your minds

Who would want to buy this? I'm supposed to carry this in addition to my eye. iPhone, like that's obviously not happening

But AI is the buzz, you know? Everyone wants to see AI something

It is a slight, even as a general like AI pessimist, it is a slightly more usable

product than the humane AI pin, which is trying to do the same thing except it doesn't even have a screen and it doesn't even run apps

Like, all right, good luck with that. But on the other hand, this is even with this, as much as we like it and as much of

where, you know, we think it looks cool and slick and all that, this would be completely

obsolete it as a product category if Apple just, you know, rolled out a smarter version of Siri

which, hey, what's the next story