Chinese brand Dreame is set on diversifying as quickly as possible. First, it was robot vacuums, then power banks, then hypercars(?)… now there’s Dreame’s 8K Leaptic Cube action camera to look out for.
And it’s not just the action cam, either. The company has also announced two wearables, its AI Glasses and an AI Ring, that, in conjunction with the 8K camera, “[redefine] the very essence of ‘recording.” Their words, not ours.
Look before you Leaptic
The Leaptic Cube consists of a main control unit with a display and controls (and, likely, much of the innards), and a detachable 8K camera unit with a 50MP 1/1.3in sensor (f/2.8, 155º) capable of shooting 8K video at 30fps, 4K/60fps (HDR), and something Dreame calls 4K Hyper-Night. The latter’s function seems obvious. Oh, and the Cube also handles 50MP stills, if you’re bent on underusing its hardware.
Since this is 2026, Dreame’s camera can’t just be an action cam. It has to feature AI. A Qualcomm-made 4nm AI image processor lives inside, with “up to 48 TOPS of AI computing power” at field directors’ disposal. And then there are the other bits.
Dreame’s AI Ring can be used to control the Leaptic Cube, with filming, mode switching, and marking all possible via the finger-worn add-on. The company’s AI Glasses send the Cube’s “live viewfinder feed directly into the user’s field of vision,” making for the most overproduced Instagram video of your morning cycle ever. Or you could take it super seriously and start producing high-quality stuff. That would seem the more obvious choice.
The AI chipset lets the Cube implement various AI protocols, there’s an onboard AI assistant (called Moko), and the camera stores 10-bit Log P video content on either 64GB or 128GB of internal storage, or up to 1TB of space, if you have a card to drop into the unit.
Pricing for the Dreame Leaptic Cube action cam starts at R7,300 ($440) for the basic 64GB bundle and R7,600 ($460) for the 128GB Standard Set. Whether that includes the peripherals, as well as the cost of the more serious bundles, is unknown for now. North America is slated for launch later this year, but hopefully the company’s ambitions will see its action cam also arrive at the southern tip of Africa.
