This AI Button Wearable From Ex-Apple Engineers Looks Like an iPod Shuffle

Two former Apple Vision Pro developers made an AI wearable that only listens when you tap it. They hope to win where other AI gadgets have fumbled: privacy.

Everybody seems to want to stick AI into some oddly shaped box or another. Sometimes it's a note transcriber or a wearable pin that doesn’t quite work, or an always-listening Friend necklace that ultimately ends up being a vessel for shitposting.

Now there is a button. Chris Nolet and Ryan Burgoyne are former Apple employees who worked on developing the Apple Vision Pro. They're associated with startup accelerator Y Combinator, and the duo’s new device, available for preorder for $179 and set to ship in December, is an AI hardware puck simply called Button.

The Button does what it says on the brushed aluminum tin. It is a button, inside a case that looks (deliberately ...