HELIOS Slate
Dual-surface energy-bound knowledge display, e-paper and a low-power panel
The Mickai HELIOS Slate is a dual-surface, energy-bound knowledge display. One surface is electronic paper that holds sealed reference, a map, a manual, a signed document, at near-zero energy once drawn, so it stays legible for weeks on a charge. The second surface is a small low-power active panel for interaction, search, and the moments that need motion or input. A display controller binds what is shown to the energy available, keeping sealed knowledge on the e-paper surface when charge is scarce and waking the active panel only when the operator needs it. The Slate shows knowledge sealed and verifiable through the Open Audit Record, so a manual or a document on the e-paper can be proven to be the signed version. The Slate is a concept device on the HELIOS roadmap, designed and patent-backed, not yet a shipping product. The dual-surface energy-bound knowledge display is the subject of UK patent application GB2612793.6, filed June 2026. The application is filed. As with every Mickai machine, the intent is that the operator owns the hardware, the keys, and the audit record, with no subscription for context or usage.
A slate is the surface you write knowledge onto and read it back from. The HELIOS Slate holds two surfaces, a still one that costs almost nothing to keep lit and a live one for when you need to interact, and it spends energy only where the knowledge needs it.
- Status
- Concept device on the HELIOS roadmap, design and patent-backed, not yet shipping
- Primary surface
- Concept target around 10.3 inch electronic paper, high contrast, near-zero hold energy
- Secondary surface
- Concept target small low-power active panel for interaction and search
- Display binding
- Controller binds shown content to available energy (GB2612793.6, filed)
- Compute
- Low-power ARM SoC with NPU for on-device sealed retrieval
- RAM
- Target 8 GB LPDDR5
- Storage
- Target 512 GB for the sealed signed knowledge set
- Energy
- Integral trickle solar on the rear plus internal battery, target multi-week e-paper standby
- IO
- USB-C, microSD for sealed knowledge updates
- Sealing
- Knowledge shown is sealed and verifiable through the Open Audit Record
- Note
- Specifications are concept targets and will firm up if the device moves to development
On-device sealed retrieval to a dual-surface display, bound to the energy available. Concept device, latency targets firm up in development.
Beyond the standard Windows and Linux workflow, here is what HELIOS Slate does with the Mickai SIOS running on the box. Concrete capability per category, with the level the hardware can carry.
On-device sealed retrieval to the dual surfaces. A manual, a map, or a signed document held on the e-paper face, searched and refreshed from the active panel, all from a sealed signed knowledge set.
The display controller binds what is shown to the energy available, keeping sealed knowledge on the near-zero-energy e-paper surface when charge is scarce and waking the active panel only on demand. Multi-week e-paper standby is the design target.
A reference surface that stays legible for weeks on a charge, designed for the workshop, the field, and the off-grid setting where a screen that needs constant power is a liability.
Read sealed manuals and documents on the e-paper, search and annotate from the active panel, sync sealed knowledge updates by microSD or USB-C when back in range.
Compact on-device retrieval sized to the energy budget. Pulls the right sealed page to the right surface, rather than running a heavy model that the energy could not sustain.
Knowledge shown is sealed in the OAR and verifiable, so a manual or document on the surface can be proven to be the signed version. The design intent is operator-owned, no subscription for context or usage.
- Dual-surface energy-bound display, e-paper plus a low-power active panel (GB2612793.6, filed)
- Sealed knowledge held on e-paper at near-zero energy, legible for weeks on a charge
- Active panel woken only when the operator needs interaction
- Knowledge shown is sealed and verifiable through the Open Audit Record
- Trickle solar on the rear for energy-bound, off-grid reference
- Concept device on the HELIOS roadmap, designed and patent-backed, not yet shipping
- MICKAI(TM) wordmark on the bezel
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: Concept, roadmap