There’s a new AI hardware gadget on the market. It doesn’t want to ambitiously replace your phone and fail miserably. He doesn’t want put a dystopian AI companion around your neck. He also doesn’t want to complicate the concept of applications with unnecessary AI in an orange box.
It’s called Plaud NotePin, and it’s simply there to record things when you command it with the press of a button. It’s a very simple pitch and the product itself seems quite simple and versatile.
The Plaud NotePin looks like a capsule, and thanks to the accessories offered by Plaud, you can wear it like a humble pin with a clip on your shirt. There’s a cute little band that turns it into a stylish necklace, which actually doesn’t look bad. Finally, you can also wear it on your wrist like a bracelet without it looking too tacky.
All you have to do is press a button and the NotePin will start recording the voices around it. Plaud presents it as a companion for recording interviews, meetings, classroom lessons or any other conversation you find useful to save as a digital file. Once the recording is finished, the AI comes into play.
Plaud deployed OpenAI’s GPT-4o model for voice transcription and summarization. All data is accessible through the mobile app and a web dashboard.
To go further, Plaud has created a series of models that convert voice transcriptions into different formats, just as you would use AI products such as Apple’s Writing Tools or Paragraph AI to transform a wall of text in an email, bulleted list, project slide, or other formats.
Other conveniences include speaker labels and Find My integration to locate the NotePin if it’s misplaced. Plaud offers 300 minutes of recording each month with the free plan, which also bundles benefits like nine summary templates, speaker tags, AI suggestions, integration with platforms like Slack, and video viewing. mental maps.
The Pro plan, which costs $6.60 per month (billed annually at $79 per year), allows users to create custom templates and access over 20 professionally created summary layouts and, more importantly again, at 1,200 minutes of audio recordings transcribed each month.
The Plaud NotePin supports 59 languages and will be available for $169. Pre-orders start todayand the NotePin will be available via Amazon in the coming weeks.
If the idea of the Plaud NotePin appeals to you, but you can’t wait, you can also try the Pluad Note. This one costs $159, looks incredibly stylish, and is already one of my favorite gear purchases this year. You can see what it looks like in the photo above, and I’ll have more to say about the Plaud NotePin very soon.