2026 Silver Winner
Conceptual
withAI - The World's Smallest Wearable for Context-Aware AI
Entrant: HumanTouch
2026
Silver
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CategoryConceptual
Class / SubcategoryDigital, Electronic Devices & Accessories
Future Technologies
Future Technologies
Country / Region
United States
withAI is an audio-first personal AI wearable by HumanTouch, designed to give AI something today’s assistants often lack: real-world context.
Most AI systems can generate language, but they struggle to be truly useful in everyday life because they do not understand what is happening around the user as the day unfolds. withAI addresses this gap through a small clip-on wearable that stays with the user throughout the day, making AI more aware, more timely, and more personally relevant.
The device is designed to clip naturally onto a collar, pocket, or bag edge, allowing it to feel lightweight, discreet, and always available without demanding the user’s attention. Instead of centering the experience around a screen, withAI is conceived as a calm physical object: compact, minimal, and easy to integrate into daily life. Its form is intended to feel premium yet approachable, with a geometry that is both distinctive and unobtrusive.
At a product level, withAI proposes a different direction for personal AI. Rather than acting only when prompted like a chatbot, it is designed as a continuous context layer that helps AI better understand the user’s world and assist at the right moment. This enables more relevant memory, more natural interaction, and more useful real-world action.
withAI is not a smartwatch, headset, or piece of jewelry. It represents a new category of wearable computing: a personal AI companion designed around awareness, continuity, and presence in everyday life.
Most AI systems can generate language, but they struggle to be truly useful in everyday life because they do not understand what is happening around the user as the day unfolds. withAI addresses this gap through a small clip-on wearable that stays with the user throughout the day, making AI more aware, more timely, and more personally relevant.
The device is designed to clip naturally onto a collar, pocket, or bag edge, allowing it to feel lightweight, discreet, and always available without demanding the user’s attention. Instead of centering the experience around a screen, withAI is conceived as a calm physical object: compact, minimal, and easy to integrate into daily life. Its form is intended to feel premium yet approachable, with a geometry that is both distinctive and unobtrusive.
At a product level, withAI proposes a different direction for personal AI. Rather than acting only when prompted like a chatbot, it is designed as a continuous context layer that helps AI better understand the user’s world and assist at the right moment. This enables more relevant memory, more natural interaction, and more useful real-world action.
withAI is not a smartwatch, headset, or piece of jewelry. It represents a new category of wearable computing: a personal AI companion designed around awareness, continuity, and presence in everyday life.
Project credits.
Yuan Gao
HumanTouch
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