Filed under Image · 2019
Google Clips
2017 - 2019, 2 years old
A clip-on camera that used on-device machine learning to decide on its own when to take a picture.
Google announced Clips at its October 2017 Pixel 2 event and put the $249 camera on sale in January 2018. The pitch was that an on-device neural network would learn faces it saw often and silently capture short clips of children and pets without anyone needing to press a button. Reviewers found the results unreliable and the always-watching premise unnerving, and sales never recovered. Google quietly pulled the product from its store on October 15, 2019 and ended cloud sync at the close of 2021. It is one of the cleanest examples of an AI-first consumer hardware concept that the market refused to want.
- Founded
- 2017-10
- Shut down
- 2019-10-15
- Funding raised
- Undisclosed
- Years alive
- 2
- Founders