Can an AI wearable make us smarter without increasing our laziness?
With the Limitless Pendant, AI enters your wardrobe and your mind, imagining a second brain and memory storage attached to your sleeve.
In our current jobs and lifestyles, where information often flows faster than our ability to process it, capturing and organising life’s most meaningful conversations has become a critical challenge. The Limitless Pendant rises as a futuristic solution: an elegant AI wearable that not only wants to be our personal assistant, but our second brain.
The Limitless Pendant is a sleek, lightweight wearable device designed by Ammunition Group that remembers what you say throughout the day, from in-person encounters to Zoom calls. With access to digital data such as emails and calendar invites, Limitless can effectively be aware of and manage your entire life, promising a searchable archive of all your interactions. The device focuses on advanced speech recognition and AI-driven synthesis to provide accurate transcriptions, contextual summaries, and fully comprehensive archives, allowing its users to retain all the information they receive.
Gallery
Open full width
Open full width
Gallery
Close full width
Close full width
On an industrial design level, one of the Limitless Pendant’s key features is its magnetic clasp design, allowing it to be attached to different kinds of clothing and accessories securely. The product also features eight colour finishes to choose from, adapting to any personality. Claiming a 100-hour battery life, this little wearable will fit into any outfit of the week without being intrusive. Through meticulously engineered miniaturised electronics, Limitless Pendant delivers an all-day performance in a compact package, a device that feels less like technology and more like a cool accessory.
Central to the product is its interaction model. The device logs everything it hears, with a discreet LED indicator ensuring transparency in social settings, similarly to Rayban Meta‘s approach. Users can bookmark a moment by lightly tapping the Pendant’s shell, highlighting parts of a conversation for easy retrieval later. The software has a consent feature, which recognises unknown voices and waits for them to consent to recording before doing so; however, it is important to note that this feature is initially off by default. The process reflects a deeper consideration of how AI and wearable technologies should navigate social dynamics and personal boundaries in public settings.
Yet, beneath the sheen of anodised aluminum lies a more troubling thought: devices like the Limitless Pendant are effectively outsourcing core cognitive functions (memory, attention, synthesis) to external machines. In the name of efficiency, we are also training ourselves to forget. Why should we engage in active listening and critical recall when a wearable can record, transcribe, and think about it all for us? The act of remembering, of navigating the messy web of conversations and interactions, is what keeps our minds agile.
Also, human intentions are often expressed through nuance, sarcasm, or even just body language, which are complex for an AI to capture and comprehend correctly. These communication features are often culturally related, augmenting their complexity, and if cues are misinterpreted by software, it can cause uncomfortable issues and misunderstandings, especially in work scenarios. Elevated AI usage threatens a slow erosion of our epistemic autonomy and of our cultural subtleties, whose consequences are still unpredictable. The promise of limitless engagement may ultimately cost us the depth of our own.
Still, like any tool, its value depends on how it’s wielded. As a companion for neurodivergent users, hyper-busy professionals, or especially information-heavy environments, the Limitless Pendant designed by Ammunition Group offers a remarkable degree of support by freeing up some mental space. Its strength lies not in replacing our memory, but in augmenting it when we need it the most. If a user can resist blind dependance, and foster a symbiotic relationship with AI-driven technologies, the device can be an esteemed collaborator. In this light, the Limitless Pendant stands as a refined piece of industrial and interaction design, a glimpse into the future where AI wearables can be thoughtful helpers for our work lives.
