Amazon wants you to Bee-lieve wearable AI can recall it all for you

Amazon wants to ensure you have a personal AI that you can carry with you anywhere, listening in on your conversations so it can remind you of key details – and give you personalized shopping recommendations, of course. The global online bazaar has unveiled two new AI-based products from Bee, a startup in wearable devices that it acquired last year in a deal said to be worth $300 million. Bee’s original product for Amazon was tried out and sort of given approval by friend of The Register Corey Quinn, Chief Cloud Economist at Duckbill, earlier this year. One new gizmo, Bee Frontier, is designed to be worn like a watch or one of those fitness trackers, although to our mind it looks more like you are wearing a doorbell. The other, Bee Eclipse, is a slimline and lightweight device about the size of a credit card that attaches to the back of your phone magnetically, like a limpet. …