AI pins, compared
The AI pin promised a phone replacement clipped to your chest — and Humane's shutdown in 2024 closed that first chapter. The devices that remain are humbler and more useful: wearable recorders and lightweight capture hardware that assume your phone is staying in your pocket.
What the survivors share is a bet on ambient capture — meetings, voice notes and conversations transcribed and summarized by AI — at a fraction of the Ai Pin's price and none of its cellular-subscription weight.
Every AI pin in the index
| Device | Year | Status | Price | Notable hardware |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Humane Ai Pin | 2024 | Discontinued | — | Camera · Microphone · Depth sensor |
| Plaud NotePin S | 2026 | Shipping | $179 | Microphone · Bone-conduction audio · Storage (64GB) |
| Anker soundcore Work | 2026 | Shipping | $159 | Microphone (dual) · Storage (8GB) · On-device AI |
| Microsoft AI Badge | 2026 | Announced | TBD | Camera (side-facing) · Speakers · On-device AI (agent) |
| Looki L1 | 2025 | Shipping | $249 | Camera (12MP) · Microphone (triple) · Compute / SoC (Snapdragon W5 Gen 2) · Storage (32GB) |
| SwitchBot AI MindClip | 2026 | Shipping | $120 | Microphone · Storage (64GB) · On-device AI |
| Computer Angel Angel | 2026 | Announced | TBD | Camera · Microphone |
Shipping now or on preorder
Refined second-gen note-taker adding a tactile record button and instant-highlight control, with 20-hour recording and 64GB onboard.
Coin-sized clip-on recorder shown at CES 2026 that transcribes and summarizes meetings across 100-plus languages, with a double-tap to flag a moment and a Pro tier at $16 a month after the trial.
A 32g magnetic clip-on camera with on-device AI that proactively captures moments through the day and auto-edits them into vlogs and highlight reels.
A 16.8g collar clip from the smart-home maker that records up to 20 hours of conversations and turns them into searchable summaries, tasks and calendar events across a subscription-backed memory service.
Announced & rumored
ID-card-sized agent badge shown at Build 2026 — a lanyard-or-clip device with a touchscreen, side-facing camera, fingerprint unlock and a hardware privacy switch, running Microsoft's agent-first Project Solara platform and in testing with a few hundred employees.
A forward-facing camera that clips into your hair — a discreet, style-first take on wearable capture.
No longer sold
Screenless laser-projection pin; service wound down in 2025.
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Common questions
Are AI pins still being made after Humane?
Yes, but the ambition changed. Humane's Ai Pin — the phone replacement clipped to your chest — was discontinued, and the devices that survived are humbler: wearable recorders and lightweight capture hardware that assume your phone stays in your pocket, at a fraction of the Ai Pin's price.
What does an AI pin do?
Ambient capture: meetings, voice notes and conversations recorded from your chest, transcribed and summarized by AI. The current generation is audio-first hardware that leans on your phone for compute and connectivity.
Which AI pins can you buy right now?
4 of the 7 AI pins in the index are shipping or on preorder: Plaud NotePin S ($179), Anker soundcore Work ($159), Looki L1 ($249), SwitchBot AI MindClip ($120).
← ALL 092 DEVICESIndependent index — figures are approximate and editorial, not official spec sheets. Nobody pays for placement. Methodology. Last reviewed 2026-09-15.