Friend announces an AI pendant with a speaker for spoken replies for $249, up from its original necklace's $129 price, with an optional $10 monthly subscription (Boone Ashworth/Wired)

<a href="https://www.wired.com/story/the-friend-2-necklace-can-talk-back-to-you-now/"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260730/i37.jpg" vspace="4" /></a> <p><a href="https://www.techmeme.com/260730/p37#a260730p37" title="Techmeme permalink"><img height="12" src="http://www.techmeme.com/img/pml.png" style="border: none; padding: 0; margin: 0;" width="11" /></a> Boone Ashworth / <a href="http://www.wired.com/">Wired</a>:<br /> <span style="font-size: 1.3em;"><b><a href="https://www.wired.com/story/the-friend-2-necklace-can-talk-back-to-you-now/">Friend announces an AI pendant with a speaker for spoken replies for $249, up from its original necklace's $129 price, with an optional $10 monthly subscription</a></b></span>&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; He sits on the couch in his living room, clad in an orange shirt emblazoned with a cartoon version of the motorcycle driven by Italian racer Valentino Rossi.</p>