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Most smart glasses are built for photos and notifications. Monako Glass is built for one thing: running AI coding agents on your face. The 48-gram wearable runs a full Buildroot Linux OS with a waveguide display, so you can drive Claude Code, Codex, or any coding agent hands-free, anywhere.

## What Monako Glass does

Instead of a phone or laptop, Monako gives the agent a heads-up display, a camera, speakers, and a bone-conduction microphone — its own custom Linux system called MonoOS. The bone-conduction mic picks up nasal vibrations rather than airborne sound, which is meant to isolate your spoken commands in noisy places, the obvious failure mode of voice-first coding. Navigation is gesture-based: raise a hand to pull up a menu, then use hand gestures through its Vision Engine to interact.

## Why it matters

As coding shifts from typing to directing agents, the interface stops needing to be a keyboard. A wearable that keeps you “in the loop” with a running agent — review, approve, redirect — without a screen in front of you is a real bet on what hands-free, ambient development could look like. Reservations are open at $19 toward a $399 unit, shipping July to August.