Laptop and phone vendor Honor recently released a new line of phones and laptops, with the MagicBook Art 14 2024 thin-and-light notebook receiving fanfare. The specs suggest it's a wonderful productivity machine, but the real interesting gimmick is its fully removable camera.
That's right, Honor's MagicBook camera will spend most of its life not staring at the user but hiding away in an SD-card-like push-push tray. The camera can be reversed for front-facing or rear-facing needs and appears to have a firm magnetic grip on the top of the laptop when deployed. However, as seen in the unboxing video below, the privacy win of a removable camera may be circumvented by its incredibly high risk of loss. Removable camera footage starts at 1:21.
