There are cameras in everything, man. Cameras in your nosein headphonesin air purifiersand in your The damn cat litter box. Meanwhile, your hair (if, unlike me, you have it) has been wistfully watching the parade of camera devices, without a single sensor to call its own. Until now…
Thanks to the founder of the technology startup. computer angelJenny Zhang, we have (at least to my knowledge) the world’s first hair clip camera. Although it shares similarities with smart glassesIt also feels like an antidote to other wearable devices worn on your face.
I invented a hair clip camera and moved from New York to Shenzhen to make it. pic.twitter.com/5nyBI6mOw9
– jenny z (@cowjuh) April 2, 2026
Zhang, who says he moved from New York to Shenzhen to make this wearable device, is positioning the hair clip camera as a way to record video recreationally. Based on the example footage, it has a lo-fi feel to it. This is closer to a 2003 flip phone than Ray-Ban Meta AI Glasseswhich are capable of recording in 3K. You probably don’t want to shoot first-person action sports with this, but I personally like the aesthetic. It’s charmingly tacky.
Unlike other wearables, it’s not clear if there are any other ambitions beyond recording things – there are no productivity messages here. In that way, the hair clip camera, despite its recording capabilities, seems more like a counterpoint to the Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses, which come with all sorts of other things: a voice assistant and computer vision, to use AI to identify things in your environment, for example.
Zhang tells Gizmodo that for now, video recording is the main focus, adding that he “won’t reveal anything else for the time being.” Take that answer as you will, but it seems the door is open to other possibilities.
Can a hair clip camera, like smart glasses, still be used to spy on people? Definitely. Although, to be fair, it’s much more obviously a camera than the ones on Meta’s smart glasses, so at least that’s what there is. However, I would love to see a privacy light on the hair clip camera if it doesn’t exist already.
As you can imagine, the hair clip camera is already bothering some people, although maybe not for the reasons you think. Given the general form factor of the hair clip, Zhang has suggested that her hair clip camera is a wearable device for women, which upset some men. On the one hand, there is one thing to note: yes, men can have long hair too and they can also express themselves in ways that are not traditionally masculine. I don’t think anyone in this equation is arguing otherwise.
On the other hand, it will definitely appeal to women more than men. What if you are bald? I don’t know, use something else? As a bald guy, I speak from a place of authority when I say, “Hang in there.”
Zhang says there are no current pricing details or a release date, but either way, the hair clip camera seems to resonate with people. Even Pebble’s Eric Migicovsky likes itapparently. So what do you say? Are you ready to give your hair a low-res video upgrade? Or are you too bald like this server?
