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Two engineers in Hangzhou shipped their first 100 units this week. EinClaw is a coin-sized clip-on microphone with USB-C, sourced from local parts and assembled at kitchen-table scale. CNBC ran a feature on April 27 calling it the poster child for China’s new wave of AI hardware — a two-person team beating US incumbents Friend and Bee to a sub-$50 always-listening device. The price tag did the rest of the work on Hacker News.

What the hardware actually is

A lapel mic, not a pendant. Clip it on, talk to it. Voice streams over Wi-Fi or BLE to your own OpenClaw instance running on a laptop or home server. Replies come back through a paired phone or earbud. No cloud lock-in, no subscription, no opaque app. The whole point is to be a dumb, cheap input device for an agent you actually control.

How agents plug in

OpenClaw exposes a standard MCP/HTTP interface, so anything that can subscribe to those events — Claude, a local LLM, a custom workflow — can act on EinClaw audio in real time. Early use cases: hands-free triggers for personal automation, meeting capture into a self-hosted vault, and voice-routed smart-home commands through OpenClaw plugins. Always-on listening, but the data path stays on your hardware.

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