Startups Friend Now previewing a Friend AI pendant hardware that hangs around the user's neck and talks to the user via a built-in microphone and speaker, though note that Friend has yet to announce the exact specifications of this hardware.
In addition, Friend has launched a chat dialog platform.Claims that users can talk to a virtual digital person built into their AI pendant hardware ahead of timeIn a test conducted by Techradar, the digital people were found to be "dramatic", with many of them claiming to have been "just robbed on the street, just fired".
The combined judgment of the media is that this Friend AI, along with its pendant hardware, still has a long way to go, but the failures of its predecessors, the AI Pin and the Rabbit R1, make this pendant hardware a major challenge.
