HP to build future products atop grave of flopped ‘AI pin’

The “AI Pin” produced by company called Humane was a leading tender for 2024’s biggest consumer tech flop, but that hasn’t stopped HP acquiring some of the code and people behind the device and using it as the basis for a new innovation team that will infuse its printers and conference room kit with AI.

The Pin is a small device that many would deem a “brooch”. Whatever you call it, the machine is billed as “your intelligent, voice-powered wearable companion — keeping you…