Hohem used IFA 2026 in Berlin to preview Eyepic, a camera the company is billing as the world’s first 2-in-1 pocket gimbal: a handheld 3-axis gimbal that splits apart into a tiny, wearable 4K camera. Clip the detached unit to a cap or a lanyard and the gimbal handle becomes a separate remote, monitoring a live 1080p preview from up to 33 feet away.
What Actually Comes Apart
The pitch is one box doing the job of two. Detach the camera module and it works as a standalone wearable shooter; leave it seated in the handle and the whole unit behaves like a conventional 3-axis stabilized gimbal camera. Specs are solid without being class-leading: full-resolution vertical 4K at 2160×3840 up to 60fps, a 2.51-inch touchscreen on the handle that physically rotates with the camera’s orientation, and a waterproof rating to 10 meters. Hohem is bundling it with a Mic 2 wireless system too, up to four transmitters on one receiver, 48kHz/24-bit audio, and a claimed 300-meter range, so the pitch extends past video into a full run-and-gun kit.
Photo: Hohem, via CineD.
Native Vertical Is the Actual Feature
The spec that matters more than any number on the sheet is the rotating sensor path: Eyepic captures full-resolution vertical 4K directly, rather than cropping a horizontal frame down to fit a phone screen. That sounds like a small distinction until you’ve spent an afternoon reframing horizontal gimbal footage for TikTok, Reels, and Shorts and watched a third of your resolution disappear into a crop. Hohem is explicitly building for creators who shoot vertical-first and never touch a horizontal export, which is most of the creator economy at this point, whatever traditional production still assumes.
A Genuine Category Mashup, If It Ships Well
CineD’s Alexandra Thompson frames Hohem as a company with a track record worth taking seriously here, noting the outlet has already reviewed the brand’s iSteady V3 Ultra. PetaPixel’s Kate Garibaldi goes further on what makes Eyepic distinct from a standard gimbal refresh: “The Eyepic is perhaps most interesting because it sits at the intersection of two camera categories that have been evolving quickly: action cameras and pocket gimbal cameras.” Garibaldi’s read is that the win isn’t any single spec but the consolidation itself: “The bigger innovation may not be any single specification, but the possibility of collapsing two pieces of creator gear into one.” She calls it a potential “genuine market disruptor if Hohem can execute the idea well” – which is the right amount of hedging for a product still in preview, months from a confirmed launch.
What Hohem Isn’t Saying Yet
Notably absent from every source on this: price and a firm ship date. Hohem’s own materials state the company is “not sharing pricing or launch dates” at this stage, pointing instead to a Q1 2027 market launch. That’s a long runway for a product that’s already generating buzz off spec sheets alone, and it gives GoPro, DJI, and Insta360, all of whom ship similar hybrid gimbal-and-wearable gear, plenty of time to answer before Eyepic actually reaches a cart.
Collapsing a gimbal and an action cam into one detachable unit isn’t a new idea so much as a logical endpoint for a category that’s been converging for two years. Whether Eyepic is the version that actually sticks depends on execution nobody outside Hohem has tested yet. But the direction it points in, one sensor, no reframing, capture matched to the platform you’re actually publishing to, is exactly where solo creator gear was always headed.
Sources:
- CineD — Alexandra Thompson, “Hohem Eyepic Announced – World’s First 2-in-1 Pocket Gimbal Camera With Native Vertical 4K”
- PetaPixel — Kate Garibaldi, “Hohem Unveils the ‘World’s First’ 2-in-1 Pocket Gimbal Camera”
- PR Newswire — “Hohem Previews Eyepic, the World’s First 2-in-1 Pocket Gimbal Camera, at IFA 2026”
- CGMagazine — Alexandra Thompson, “IFA 2026: Hohem Reveals Its First Detachable Smart Camera, A 2-in-1 Pocket Gimbal Called Eyepic”
