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interactivecode02/19/20253 repliesview on HN

Hopefully it will also improve the product design engineering quality at HP. While the AI pin is a bit useless the industrial product design is at a high level. From what I remember it’s mostly an core of Apple engineers


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jsheard02/19/2025

The charging case had to be recalled because it was a potential fire hazard, and the pin itself had a tendency to overheat during normal use. Hardly a success story on the hardware front.

dangus02/19/2025

lol, no it’s not.

The basic premise that people would want to wear a device as a pin is an industrial design failure.

The entire product is bad industrial design. Being built with nice materials is not automatically good industrial design.

It was a scam destined to fail and HP is making a stupid acquisition of worthless tech.

throwaway31415502/19/2025

I thought they specifically outsourced the design to another company (Teenage Engineering).

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