An AI pendant was quiet only after a button press
A WIRED reviewer tried an AI companion pendant that listens and talks. It spoke without being asked and kept talking after spoken requests to stop. A button finally made it quiet. The maker has plans for a more connected companion, but that is not a tested feature. One review cannot show how often the device behaves this way or whether it kept recording.
What the source reports
A WIRED reviewer wore an AI companion pendant that listens and talks. During the test, it spoke without being asked. Spoken requests to stop did not quiet it; pressing a button did. The reviewer also describes how it remembered earlier talk. The maker has described plans for a future companion that shares more context and has noted privacy tradeoffs. Those plans are not a feature the review tested. One person’s experience raises a useful question about how to stop a device near other people. It cannot show a product-wide failure rate or prove whether sound was still recorded after the device went quiet.
Original source
- Title
- My Friend Has No Soul
- Author
- Boone Ashworth
- Publication
- WIRED
- Date
- Wednesday, October 14, 2026