Built AI Tamagotchi
Meta betting on cuteness as the interface for AI is telling — it wants companionship, not productivity, to sell hardware. The Verge's DIY angle lands a real point: the technical bar for an AI pet is now so low that differentiation will come from ecosystem integration, not the gadget itself.… more
We remain skeptical of dedicated AI toys after the Humane AI Pin and Rabbit R1 flopped, though a squishy face changes the psychology — Tamagotchi proved decades ago that people bond with virtual pets. The open question is whether a charm offers anything over Meta's glasses or a phone app, or it's just a holiday impulse buy. Either way, expect emotional AI hardware aimed at casual users — quite possibly kids — to reignite both design and privacy debates.
I built an AI Tamagotchi before Meta could
Mark Zuckerberg's Meta made AI look so stinking cute by giving it a squishy little face - and this holiday season, he wants to sell you a Muse Charm so you can carry your jolly AI helper around like a Tamagotchi. But I won't be buying one, because we have Muse Charm at home. It […]
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