Enterprise AI adoption is accelerating, but new research suggests identity governance is lagging behind. Here's why AI agent identities are becoming a critical security challenge.
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Chinese AI platforms are paying people to license their faces for AI-generated videos, raising new questions about biometric identity, consent, and digital ownership.
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OnePlus has confirmed an optional move from OxygenOS to ColorOS 17. Here's what changes, what stays the same, and what existing owners should expect.
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Microsoft is retiring its legacy Threat Intelligence portal on August 1. Security teams should verify licenses, permissions, investigation projects, APIs, and automated workflows before the cutoff.
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Samsung may give the Galaxy Watch 9 and Galaxy Watch Ultra 2 five major OS upgrades, but IT teams should wait for model-specific support terms before changing refresh plans.
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Samsung Display has reportedly won Apple's exclusive OLED touchscreen contract for future MacBook Pro models, highlighting its lead in large-format display manufacturing.
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AI security tools are helping uncover more software flaws, creating new patching demands and potential offensive risks for enterprise IT teams.
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The e-reader has been one of the most static product categories of the past two decades. Since the first Kindle appeared in 2007, the form factor has barely evolved: a single screen, a flat back, and dimensions roughly matching a paperback. These devices have gotten lighter, sharper, and more waterproof, but the fundamental design assumption has stayed the same. They’re books without the book part.
A growing number of designers have been working on a different premise: what if an e-reader actually opened like a book? One with two E Ink panels and a real hinge, held the way you’d hold a paperback, where left and right pages exist as physical space. That shared ambition has driven a small but serious cluster of projects building quietly over the past five years.
The idea of folding an E Ink display isn’t new. Back in 2020, E Ink Corporation demonstrated a hinged prototype showing that a bending e-paper panel could survive the mechanical stress of being folded. It never reached retail shelves, but it answered the one question that mattered most at the time: whether the material itself could handle the geometry of a real book.
Designer: E Ink
That prototype didn’t solve everything. It was a controlled demonstration with no commercial roadmap, no software, no battery life to speak of, and no clear form factor beyond the fold itself. What it gave the industry was proof that flexible e-paper was a viable building block rather than a permanent research curiosity. Every foldable E Ink project that came after built on that understanding.
Readmoo’s Mooink V was the first design to make the flexible E Ink concept feel emotionally legible to a general audience. It’s built around an 8-inch Gallery 3 color e-paper display developed in collaboration with E Ink, one that folds down the middle to make the device small enough to pocket when closed and wide enough to feel like a slim paperback when open.
Designer: Readmoo
The color display matters more than it might seem. Gallery 3 renders close to 50,000 colors at 300 PPI, expanding the format beyond plain text to illustrated books, comics, and magazines. The fold reportedly passed 200,000 bending tests during development, and when fully open, the crease isn’t dramatic enough to register as a flaw so much as an honest design trade-off.
Mooink V hasn’t had the smoothest road to market, though. Despite genuine buzz at trade shows including Touch Taiwan and SID Display Week, no confirmed retail availability or street price had materialized as of mid-2026. The design made the foldable E Ink book look and feel tangible in a way earlier prototypes hadn’t. Whether it gets there commercially is a different and still open question.
Not everyone building a book-shaped e-reader was willing to bet on a single flexible panel. A parallel design school took a more pragmatic approach: pair two conventional E Ink screens with a well-engineered hinge and let the gutter do the work. The result avoids crease anxiety entirely since neither panel has to bend, though it trades the seamless page illusion for a visible seam you’d have to accept.
Designer: LCFC (Hefei) (a Lenovo Subsidiary)
LCFC’s Gemini took the productivity angle furthest, giving both E Ink panels enough real estate to function almost like a laptop, with reading material open on one side and an active workspace on the other. The InkReader Duo concept took a more compact approach, fitting two E Ink screens into a phone-sized form, which made it feel less like a desk tool and more like a pocket notebook.
Diptyx went in a different direction altogether. Rather than chasing consumer polish, the project leaned into open-source principles, building a two-panel hinged e-reader without the lock-in that defines most commercial platforms. It isn’t the most refined interpretation of the book-shaped reader, but it made a clear point: the hardware problem was increasingly solvable, and the real challenge was getting the software and ecosystem right.
Designer: Martijn den Hoed
Not every dual-screen device fits cleanly into this story. The Bluegen OKPad pairs an E Ink panel with a regular LCD screen, which makes for a versatile tablet but undermines the unified reading experience that makes an E Ink book feel coherent. Switching between two fundamentally different display types introduces a visual disconnect that software bridging alone can’t fully smooth over.
Designer: Bluegen
Bigme’s HiBreak Dual 2 runs into a different kind of problem. It’s a smartphone with a secondary E Ink display on the back, which is a genuinely clever idea for managing notifications and extending battery endurance, but it’s shaped and used like a phone rather than a book. A second screen doesn’t automatically recreate the spatial logic of reading a bound object.
Designer: Bigme
Inkleaf is the most pragmatic entry in the foldable E Ink space so far. Instead of chasing a seamless fold, it pairs two 10.3-inch Carta E Ink panels in a notebook-style hinge, with one side for reading and the other for writing. The seam between them works as a gutter rather than a flaw, and the design doesn’t try to hide it.
That workflow proposition is what makes Inkleaf interesting beyond its form factor. Having reference material on one panel while taking notes on the other removes a friction point that every single-screen reader quietly ignores. You don’t need to switch apps, scroll back, or memorize what you just read before writing something down. It’s aimed at a different kind of reader than a Kindle typically serves.
Designer: Kameron Yu
Inkleaf is currently collecting early-access signups ahead of an August 2026 launch, with a broader public release targeted for 2027. That’s a staggered timeline worth noting: the hardware still has to prove itself beyond initial demos, and the software will matter as much as the panels themselves. Carta E Ink is a sensible fit for a writing-focused device, but actual daily use remains the real test.
None of this means the Kindle is suddenly irrelevant. Amazon’s device still wins on price, ecosystem depth, and a friction-free reading experience built up through years of software refinement. If all you want to do is buy a book and read it on a train, nothing in this group of foldable experiments beats a Paperwhite for simplicity. The incumbents aren’t losing sleep yet.
What these devices do expose is a design gap Amazon hasn’t seriously tried to close. A Kindle displays text efficiently, but it doesn’t recreate the spatial logic of reading a bound book: two visible pages, a sense of position, a natural place for margin thoughts. Those aren’t features that get patched in through a software update, which is why the form-factor conversation is overdue.
That’s what this group of foldable and dual-screen E Ink devices has been quietly building toward for the past five years. Not a product category defined by any single winner, but a shared argument about what a digital reading device could look like if it started from the book rather than the screen. Whether any of them fully delivers on that is a question 2027 will help answer.
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The nightstand has become one of the messiest surfaces in a home. A charging cable snaking across the top, a phone lying flat or propped against whatever happens to be nearby, maybe a watch charger completing the pile. Most accessories designed to address this solve the function while ignoring the furniture, leaving something clinical and plastic sitting next to things that actually belong in a bedroom.
The Valet 4.25 from Twelve South approaches the problem differently. It’s a compact leather catchall tray with a 25W Qi2 wireless charger built into one end, sized specifically for nightstands and bedside tables. The idea isn’t to be a charger that fits in a room; it’s to be an object that actually belongs there, starting with its materials and ending with how it behaves overnight.
Designer: Twelve South
The base is a weighted zinc alloy frame wrapped entirely in Nappa leather, which keeps it planted on the surface without rubber feet or suction tricks. The tray measures 4.25 inches across, making it a tighter proposition than the brand’s original 7.5-inch Valet but considerably more appropriate for the average nightstand, where every spare inch is already committed to something else.
There’s a small but deliberate feature called the Goodnight Glow. When you set your phone down to charge, the tray pulses a soft light for eight seconds to confirm the connection, then fades completely. It doesn’t stay lit through the night. For something sitting beside you while you sleep, that restraint is more considered than it sounds, and it makes double-checking whether your phone is actually charging almost unnecessary.
The wireless output is a meaningful upgrade over the original Valet, which topped out at 15W via Qi2. The new model delivers 25W, which is the full MagSafe speed that newer iPhones can receive. The smaller size doesn’t come at the expense of performance; if anything, it corrects the one technical criticism that followed the larger model since it launched at CES earlier this year.
The outer frame is removable and interchangeable, available in four leather colors: black, taupe, brown, and ecru. The body itself comes in either black or taupe Nappa leather, giving you enough combination room to match most bedroom furniture without much deliberation. The tray can also be oriented four ways, letting you position the charging pad on either side or rotate the whole thing to fit a narrower nightstand.
There’s a USB-C port tucked under the base for a second device, though at 10W it’s a step down from the 35W the larger Valet offers. It’ll handle a pair of earbuds or a smartwatch overnight, but it’s not fast-charging territory. The smaller tray is the other concession, reducing the landing area for everyday items compared to what the 7.5-inch version can comfortably hold alongside a phone.
At $129.99, it’s $50 less than the larger model and carries the same premium material finish. The Valet 4.25 is narrowly focused for a specific spot in the home, the kind where spending more on something you see every morning is easier to justify when it actually looks right. The Nappa leather and zinc alloy construction give it a permanence that most chargers, regardless of cost, rarely manage.
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Motorola's Edge 70 Max pairs a 7,100mAh silicon-carbon battery with built-in Qi2 magnetic charging, flagship hardware, and a slim design in its India debut.
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23andMe will pay $18 million to settle claims from 43 states over its 2023 data breach, which exposed genetic information tied to nearly 7 million people.
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OpenAI’s $70 ChatGPT basketball and premium merchandise test whether the AI company can transform its software platform into a lifestyle brand.
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SpaceX aborted its Starship V3 launch after an engine issue, raising new questions about Starlink expansion, launch reliability, and investor pressure.
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Microsoft is reportedly developing Project Perception, a lower-cost AI security tool that would use multiple models to identify enterprise vulnerabilities.
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