According to perennial supply chain soothsayer Ming-Chi Kuo, the device will be “slightly larger” than the now-defunct AI Pin from Humane and as tiny and “elegant” as Apple's lowest-rent music player. No screen, but microphones for barking commands and cameras for sniffing out what’s around you. It’s designed to hang from your neck, necklace-style, rather than cling to your clothes.

Unlike the AI Pin’s car crash of a launch, OpenAI is keeping its cards close for now. Kuo reckons mass production might kick off in 2027, assuming it doesn’t end up in the same graveyard as other smartphone‑dodging gimmicks.

OpenAI boss Sam Altman is already testing it at home and thinks it’s “the coolest piece of technology that the world will have ever seen.” That’ll be a tough bar for something that hangs off your lanyard and spies on the world.

The product also has not hit the privacy issues that an always-on device packed with cameras and microphones will eventually get. Particularly when people start carrying them into cafes to listen in, record and stalk people.