Here’s what OpenAI’s first hardware product designed by Jony Ive is rumored to be

Back in May, OpenAI acquired Jony Ive’s startup io (yes that’s really how it’s spelled), part of his LoveFrom creative design company. io was working on a secretive hardware product, and now a new rumor tells us what it is.

A pen. Obviously, this will be no ordinary pen. A past report described it as “contextually aware”, and io is now part of OpenAI, so this will definitely be an AI pen. What will it do? Your guess is as good as ours.

Interestingly, this will be just the first hardware product from OpenAI, but the company is working on two more, of which one is said to be a “to-go”…