People have been left divided after a company went viral for unveiling the world’s first ‘soul computer’.
Just when we thought we had all collectively said no to smart glasses, another firm has introduced new wearable tech.
The new Pickle 1 is purported to be a full computer within a pair of glasses, which can record and observe what the wearer is doing and interact with them.
On the Pickle website, it explains: “We gave our soul a body. Inside Pickle 1, you will find all kinds of interactive avatars that meet your gaze and talk with you.”
Advert
The glasses hold onto memories, ‘from little notes to daily emotions, it remembers your life with you’.
And you’re able to have endless conversations with the tech about your ideas because ‘Pickle 1 fully understands the context and proactively dives into your biggest challenges with you’.
There is a list of features detailed on the website which the firm promises to deliver with the product.
It goes on to say: “Experience together. It sees what you see, hears what you hear.
“Remembers you. Powerful memory system that remembers your life.
“Always Thinking. Come up with new ideas that help your biggest concerns. “Grows with you. Understand you better every day with feedback”
While this might sound like an exciting innovation for some, others fear this is all sounding a little too Black Mirror for their liking.
Many people have taken to social media to share their own mixed bag of reactions to the ‘soul computer’, with one user writing on X, formerly Twitter: “I'm not putting a 'soul computer' called Pickle on my face unless it comes with free dill chips. Change the name and take my money.”
Another said: “By far the best announcement of an AI wearable to date. Will be curious to see if it lives up to the hype.”
A third person joked: “The first computer that takes my soul?”
And a fourth added: “What’s wrong with the pen and paper?”
But what runs the Pickle 1? It turns out that the company has its own operating system, known as Pickle OS.
According to the firm, this operating system is built to work ‘like human memory’, which has the ability to process ‘your reality into connected memories every second’.
On the website, it says that ‘Pickle OS is the soul that brings Pickle 1 to life’.
We’re still not sure how we feel about that!