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Humane’s Ai Pin and other AI wearables are difficult to recycle, threatening to worsen the world’s global e-waste problem.

  • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    3 days ago

    I mean, this sucks, but Apple’s Airpods are far more egregious, far more numerous (something like 550 million+ versus 10,000+ AI pins), and have spawned an army of copycats all which cannot be repaired and are just ewaste waiting to happen.

    It’s really that the entire fucking industry just doesn’t god damned care and I can’t even find places that reliably take electronic waste like desktops and laptops, let alone this fucking horseshit. USA produces massive amounts of ewaste and basically is like “fuck it” on creating a recycling industry around it.

    This problems goes so far beyond these dinky AI pins.

    Futurama was making jokes about the horrors of ewaste in its first return run in 2013, it’s 2025 and it’s only gotten worse.