HELIOS Lantern
Rugged off-grid survival knowledge appliance, solar and hand-crank
The Mickai HELIOS Lantern is a rugged, handheld off-grid survival knowledge appliance. It carries a sealed offline Mickai knowledge brain, first aid, repair, navigation, agriculture, water, shelter, signalling, and a compact reasoning model, and it answers questions in the field with no network and no grid. It charges from an integral solar panel or a hand crank, and a power-aware scheduler keeps the knowledge brain answering down to a trickle of harvested energy. The sealed knowledge set is signed and verifiable through the Open Audit Record, so the operator can trust what it tells them and prove what it was at any point. The Lantern is for the expedition, the lifeboat, the remote clinic, the emergency cache, and the household that wants reliable knowledge that does not depend on a signal or a subscription. The sealed off-grid survival knowledge appliance is the subject of UK patent application GB2612791.0, filed June 2026. The application is filed. The operator owns the device, the keys, and the audit record. No subscription for context or usage. The price you pay on day one is the price you pay for life.
A lantern is the light you carry when the grid is gone. The HELIOS Lantern carries the Mickai knowledge brain the same way, a sealed light of knowledge that works on harvested or hand-cranked power when nothing else does.
- Knowledge brain
- Sealed offline corpus, first aid, repair, navigation, water, shelter, agriculture, signalling, plus a compact reasoning model
- Compute
- Low-power ARM SoC with NPU, sized for a compact on-device model
- RAM
- 16 GB LPDDR5
- Storage
- 1 TB, the sealed signed knowledge set plus the operator's notes
- Display
- 6 inch sunlight-readable transflective LCD, 1000 nit, low power
- Solar input
- Integral 10 W monocrystalline panel
- Hand crank
- Fold-out dynamo, around 10 minutes cranking for around 1 hour of query use
- Battery
- 100 Wh lithium iron phosphate, around 1 week standby
- Runtime
- Around 18 hours active query off a full charge, indefinite on solar plus crank
- IO
- USB-C (charge and data), microSD for sealed knowledge updates, 3.5 mm audio
- Extras
- LED task light, emergency strobe, SOS tone, all running at minimal draw
- Environment
- IP67, minus 20 to plus 50 C, drop rated to 2 m
Field-grade offline question answering on harvested or hand-cranked power, scaled to the charge available.
Beyond the standard Windows and Linux workflow, here is what HELIOS Lantern does with the Mickai SIOS running on the box. Concrete capability per category, with the level the hardware can carry.
A sealed, signed offline knowledge corpus and a compact reasoning model answering in the field. Field-grade question answering on first aid, repair, navigation, water, shelter, and agriculture with no network and no grid.
Integral solar panel and a fold-out hand crank. Around 10 minutes cranking for around an hour of query use. The scheduler keeps answering down to a trickle of harvested energy.
IP67 sealed, drop rated to 2 m, wide temperature range, week-long standby. Task light, emergency strobe, and SOS tone built in. The knowledge you carry when the grid is gone.
Sunlight-readable display for field reference, the operator's own notes stored alongside the sealed corpus, sealed knowledge updates by microSD when back in range.
A compact on-device model on a low-power NPU, sized to answer reliably within the energy budget. Not a frontier model, an honest field model that runs on cranked power.
The knowledge set is sealed in the OAR and verifiable, so the operator can trust what it tells them and prove what it was. No egress, no subscription, operator-owned.
- Sealed offline survival knowledge appliance (GB2612791.0, filed)
- Solar and hand-crank powered, works with no grid and no network
- Sealed signed knowledge set, verifiable through the Open Audit Record
- Power-aware scheduler keeps the knowledge brain answering at very low charge
- Sunlight-readable display, task light, emergency strobe and SOS tone
- No network required, no subscription for context or usage
- MICKAI(TM) wordmark on the face
Mickai is held privately by its founder, Micky Irons. One hundred and one UK patent applications have been filed against the substrate, with approximately 2,234 claims across them, on the public UK IPO register under GB2607309.8 onwards. The corpus covers the cooperative architecture, the Open Audit Record, the FIPS 204 ML-DSA-65 signing primitive, the clearance-gated retrieval, the audio dual-layer watermark, the silicon root of trust, and the host-acceptance attestation that lets the Mickai bundle migrate from one machine to another without breaking its signed chain.
Poseidon, the Mickai Sovereign AI SoC. In-house silicon that complements the GPU fabric on every SKU. Carries the OAR signing primitive in silicon, holds the hardware identity and cryptographic root of trust, and sits between the network interface and the GPU fabric so every action that crosses the bus can be policy-checked before commit. Optional on every SKU as the silicon lands.
Pricing TBD. The price on day one is the price for life. No subscription for context or usage. Only paid upgrades through the sandboxed channel, optional.
Launch window: Late 2026