Everything has a camera, man. Cameras in your noseopen earphonesopen air purifiersand yours cat’s terrible litter box. Meanwhile, your hair (unlike mine, if you have one) is longingly watching the parade of camera gadgets with no sensors. So far…
Thanks to the creator of the technology startup Computer angelJenny Zhang, we have (as far as I know, at least) the world’s first hair clip camera. although it has similarities with smart glassesit also feels like a bit of an antidote to other face wearers.
I invented a hair clip camera and moved from New York to Shenzhen to do it 🙂 pic.twitter.com/5nyBI6mOw9
— Jenny Z (@cowjuh) April 2, 2026
Zhang, who said he moved from New York to Shenzhen to make it wearable, positions his hair clip camera to shoot fun videos. Judging by the sample footage, it has a bit of a lo-fi feel. It’s much closer than the 2003 flip phone Ray-Ban Meta AI SunglassesCapable of recording in 3K. You probably don’t want to celebrate first-person action sports with this thing, but I personally like the aesthetics. This is charmingly bad.
Unlike other wearables, it’s not clear if it has more ambitions than recording things – there’s no productivity message here. So the hair clip camera, despite its recording capabilities, feels more like a counterpoint to the Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses, which come with all sorts of other stuff — voice assistants and computer vision — to use AI to identify things around you.
Zhang tells Gizmodo that the main focus right now is the video shoot, adding that he “will not reveal anything else at this time.” Take that answer as you will, but it sounds like the door is open to other possibilities.
Could there still be a hair clip camera like smart glasses? used to spy on people? definitely. Although, to be fair, it’s a more open camera than the ones on the Meta’s smart glasses, so at least there’s that. I’d like to see a privacy light on the hair clip camera if it’s not already there.
As you can imagine, the hair clip camera already annoys some people, though perhaps not for the reasons you might think. Considering the whole hair clip form factor, Zhang suggested that his hair clip camera is a wearable device for women. led some men astray. On the one hand, there’s a point to be made: yes, men can have long hair, and they can express themselves in ways that aren’t traditionally masculine. I don’t think anyone would argue otherwise in this equation.
On the other hand, it will definitely appeal to women more than men. If you are bald? I don’t know, use something else? As a bald man, I speak from a place of authority when I say “pull it”.
Zhang says there are no current pricing details or a release date, but either way, the hair clip camera is resonating with people. Even Pebble’s Eric Migicovsky likes thisit seems Well, what do you say? Ready to give your hair a low-res video makeover? Or are you really very bald like yours?
