I tried Amazon's Bee wearable and am both intrigued and slightly creeped out

Amazon just launched Bee, their entry into the AI wearable space. If you've been following the AI hardware wave, you know the pattern: a device that's always listening, always ready to help, and always making you wonder exactly what it's recording.

The Bee sits in that uncomfortable middle ground between genuinely useful and vaguely dystopian. It works as advertised, offering the kind of ambient AI assistance that sounds great in a product demo. But wearing it in real life brings up the same questions we've had about every AI wearable so far.

The convenience factor is real. Having an AI assistant that's actually with you, not just on your phone, changes how you interact with it. You can get help without pulling out a device, which matters more than you'd think in practice.

But here's the thing: that always-on nature cuts both ways. The same feature that makes it convenient is exactly what makes it creepy. You're wearing a device that's constantly processing your environment, and that takes some getting used to.

This isn't unique to Amazon. Every AI wearable from Humane's Ai Pin to Meta's smart glasses faces this exact tension. The technology works, but we're still figuring out if we actually want to live with it.

For anyone building with AI or thinking about how these tools fit into daily work, Bee is worth watching. It's another data point in the ongoing experiment of whether AI wearables will actually stick or remain a solution looking for a problem.