Trying to play the linked video just crashes the page on MobileSafari, but I found their presentation on Youtube.
It’s almost as if they held their two most apathetic employees at gunpoint in a laboratory. Safe to say I’ve never seen that level of ennui in any startup’s presentation before.
Aren’t they the founders? It did strike me that already a minute in and they were bored with what they had to say about the product, like they’d already watched their lifetime’s share of Apple demos. At least when the Segway was launched we had weeks of building OMFG!!! hype around how it was going to be the worlds most radical new transportation device. Even the presenters of the hu.ma.ne website seem like they’re riddled with ennui, as you say, or just unenthused with presenting. It in no way seemed like the launch of a game changing new device. Plus, referring to their website, has anyone in history had cause to ask an AI assistant “how much is a vintage photograph of an eclipse going for?” like seriously?? And using this device as a speaker while roller skating in a city? I couldn’t even hear my iPhone Pro Max on full volume in an environment like that. Unless this device is phenomenally good and responsive, it’s going to flop so so hard in so many ways. People’s tolerance for latency and inaccuracy is low.
It’s almost as if they held their two most apathetic employees at gunpoint in a laboratory. Safe to say I’ve never seen that level of ennui in any startup’s presentation before.