We’re currently moving through an age where it’s not seen as completely insane to talk to yourself. We’ve probably all done it. It’s hard to find a phone these days that doesn’t have some form of voice control. Siri was the pioneer, launching in 2011 as the first conversation style personal voice assistant. Android followed with Google Now, Samsung now speaks through S Voice and Microsoft has recently released Cortana.

Siri and S Voice remain the most simple, responding to users requests and replying with the desired information.

Google Now and Cortana take the idea of an assistant a step further. Asking more about what you like, how you normally travel, tracking where you are parked and scanning social networks for information like birthdays allows them to give you relevant, in the moment information; the theory that Google has brought across into their wearable operating system, Android Wear.

At Motorola’s Chicago event recently, they released their long-awaited Android Wear smartwatch the Moto 360. The stylish watch isn’t the first of its kind but its been met with positive reviews and a lot of noise across the web allowing one of Motorola’s other reveals to go practically unnoticed.

The Moto Hint is described by Motorola as a “discreet wireless earbud.” Awesome. Motorola produced a bluetooth headset as a callback to the symbiotic tech plague of the early 2000s?

I was intrigued when I first saw a picture. Okay. That’s pretty small. But is it enough to for people to consider wearing it? The Hint is designed to be worn at all times but unlike most headsets it’s actually small, light and discreet enough for that to be an option. For that, it contains technology for passthrough audio, allowing you to keep it in your ear and still hear everything as you would without it.

Where the Hint really comes into its own is ‘Moto Voice’.

Moto Voice means that the Hint is always listening for your call. By saying the Android standard “Okay Google” or any custom phrase you set, the Hint will activate and immediately respond giving you access to anything from the conventional “What’s the weather like?” questions through Google Now to apps like alarms, notes, Facebook, Whatsapp, turn-by-turn navigation and even making phone calls using its two noise-cancelling mics.

At this level, the Hint is a fantastic bluetooth headset but the real excitement for me is in the possibilities. The obvious and most recent example is Her.