Ask HN: List of consumer AI/consumer hardware startups?

Posted by iotambat on Thursday February 06, 2025 @04:02PM
from the ask-hn dept.

just finished an internship as a design engineer/creative tech at Tesla, was thinking of where I wanted to go next, and in my mind that's somewhere in the ai consumer/consumer hardware space. I think there's a lot of novel problems to solve in that space that haven't been tackled before, but I'm not sure what companies to look into other than:

- Humane AI - Rabbit - Rewind Pendant - Friend

I was thinking that if i was 10 years older I would have loved to have worked on Pebble (smartwatch co)

Does anyone has any other consumer ai/consumer hardware startups they recommend I look into?

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Re:Ask HN: List of consumer AI/consumer hardware startups? by andrewfromx on Thursday February 06, 2025 @04:06PM (#42966498)

https://friend.com/

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Re:Ask HN: List of consumer AI/consumer hardware startups? by talldayo on Thursday February 06, 2025 @04:06PM (#42966505)

From Tesla to consumer AI, it's like you're swinging from one bubble to another. Genuinely, the people on this website are beyond saving.

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Re:Ask HN: List of consumer AI/consumer hardware startups? by iotambat on Thursday February 06, 2025 @04:12PM (#42966551)

i'm interested in working on consumer hardware devices in general more so...and the more novel consumer hardware devices atm are the ones using some form of AI, in my head :/

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Re:Ask HN: List of consumer AI/consumer hardware startups? by ai-christianson on Thursday February 06, 2025 @04:40PM (#42966777)

Have you given any thought into developing some kind of new product on your own (and turning that into a company?)

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Re:Ask HN: List of consumer AI/consumer hardware startups? by HardikVala on Thursday February 06, 2025 @05:21PM (#42967113)

Not the first product category you think of when it comes to AI consumer hardware but how about smart glasses (eg. Meta Raybans). Extrapolating to the future, AR glasses are probably going to be heavily dependent on AI.

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