Your wallet, held behind your own face. Power from the sun when the battery is gone. The instructions for rebuilding, already on board. And a way to find whoever else is still out there.
Paid in crypto. Shipping Spring 2027.
Each of these exists because of a specific way ordinary devices fail when the infrastructure behind them stops answering.
The ANKH wallet ships on the device, and your face is the key. No seed phrase to lose in a drawer, no password to be talked out of, no custodian who can freeze the account or be compelled to. The same biometric verification that issues ANKH decides who gets in — held on the device, not in someone's database.
Photovoltaic across the top bezel, backing the battery rather than replacing it. Charge it from the wall while the wall works. When it stops, the device does not become a brick on a schedule set by the last outlet you found — it keeps going as long as the sun comes up.
A preloaded archive of how to rebuild: water, food, medicine, power, metallurgy, radio, agriculture. Stored on the device and readable with no network, no account and no search engine. Everything humanity knows is currently one outage away from being unreachable by the people who would need it most.
A radar and map display that discovers other ANKH tablets nearby, plots them, and opens a channel to talk to them — device to device, with no tower, no carrier and no server in between. Coordination is the thing that decides whether scattered survivors become a community, and it is the first capability to disappear.
Every device you own is a terminal for something else. The money is a record on a bank's server. The map is a request to a data centre. The knowledge is a query answered somewhere far away. The identity belongs to whoever issued it. Cut any one of those connections and the hardware in your hand keeps its shape and loses its purpose.
That arrangement is fine right up until it isn't. The ANKH Tablet is built the other way round: the wallet, the archive, the map and the radio all work with nothing on the other end. Not because the grid is going down next year, but because a tool whose usefulness depends on the world staying exactly as it is today is not a tool you can count on.
The underlying technologies are working. What remains between here and Spring 2027 is manufacturing, certification and the long, unglamorous work of making four proven things into one object that survives being dropped.
Stated as design targets, because that is what they are. The hardware is in development and anything printed as a final figure eighteen months before it ships is a guess wearing a uniform. These are confirmed as they are locked.
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Written plainly, because a pre-order for hardware eighteen months out is a real commitment and you should know exactly what it is before you send anything.
No. The wallet, the archive, the radar and the comms channel all work on their own. Verification is what lets the wallet receive the UBI allocation — it is a reason to get verified, not a condition of owning the device.
The biometric unlock is resolved on the device. Opening your own wallet is a one-to-one check against a template held locally — it is not a lookup against the public register, and it does not need a network to answer.
Range depends on terrain, obstruction and how many tablets are in between — devices relay for each other, so a chain of them reaches considerably further than any single link. Figures will be published from field testing rather than from a radio datasheet, because the datasheet number is the one measured in conditions you will never be standing in.
Not at present. Settlement runs through established crypto rails so the payment is confirmable by both sides today. Paying in ANKH is the obvious end state and is on the roadmap.
Consistency, mostly. A device built so its wallet answers to nobody sits badly with a checkout that routes through a payment processor able to decline it. It also means no card details are collected, stored, or available to lose.
Then you ask for a refund under the terms above. We would rather say this plainly than leave it unsaid: you are backing hardware that does not exist yet, and that carries risk no wording removes. Spend accordingly.