The Nano Banana camera has arrived to edit reality in real time (www.techradar.com)

Camera Intelligence unveiled Caira, a mirrorless camera module that snaps onto iPhones via MagSafe and runs Google’s Gemini 2.5 Flash Image model — nicknamed Nano Banana — onboard to let users edit photos in real time. Caira uses interchangeable Micro Four Thirds lenses, a sensor package about 400% larger than typical phone cameras, and optional accessories (battery grip) to combine pro optics with embedded generative editing. After capture you can instantly change lighting, colors or objects — reportedly often in one shot — and review/export directly from iOS without invoking Gemini assistant or desktop tools. Pre-orders open on Kickstarter October 30. For creators and the AI/ML community, Caira collapses separate capture and post‑production steps into a single pipeline, speeding workflows for commercial and social use and setting a precedent for on-device generative pipelines tied to optical hardware. Camera Intelligence picked Nano Banana for its quality preservation and low hallucination rate, but the team also built ethics guardrails — blocking edits that alter skin tone, ethnicity or core facial features and aligning with Google’s prohibited-use policy — while working with photographers and ethics researchers. The product highlights both practical gains (faster, client-ready outputs) and risks: point-of-capture generative edits raise new edge cases around identity, context shifts and misuse even as they redefine how images are made.