If there’s one overarching takeaway from last night’s Rabbit R1 launch event, it’s this: Hardware can be fun again. It would have been difficult to time the release better. Generative AI hype had reached a fever pitch. The R1 looks as much like an art piece as anything. It’s a squat, orange object. ChatGPT and Google Gemini will be increasingly baked into mobile operating systems in the months and years to come.