Tech brands are forcing AI into your gadgets—whether you asked for it or not | Ars Technica
The "AI mouse" is just the start.
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this was the peak of product design in the early 00s. "look, we added a brightly colored button whose only purpose is to open up our unoptimized crapware that no one will ever intentionally use. that counts as a feature, and therefore a reason to purchase our product instead of the competitor's on next shelf"
Remember when Radio Shack tried to make cat-shaped barcode readers a thing?
Ngl there's something charming about these weird aborted versions of stuff that we figured out later, like this one is just "QR codes but stupider"
The guy who invented that thing also invented some "proprietary technology" to find bamboo fibers in ballots to prove that the 2020 election was stolen by China.