When tech companies talk about AI personal assistants helping people in their daily lives, it’s not theoretical to me — it’s something I already make extensive use of. Anthropic’s Claude answers between five to 30 queries for me per day, and my life is meaningfully improved by it. And yet, I remain incredibly skeptical of AI-centric devices because most of them are slow, gimmicky, or unappealing, and the latest pendant, named Omi, from a start-up called “Based Hardware,” doesn’t seem to be much different.