Vyldor — smart leather belt with an earpiece in the buckleSkip to contentInvestJoin the waitlist
Concept in development · waitlist open<br>Your phone,<br>without the screen.<br>Vyldor is a smart leather belt. A small earpiece sits docked in the buckle, two zones at your hips tap to tell you which way to turn, and one hidden button confirms the things that matter. Your phone never leaves your pocket.<br>Email addressJoin the waitlist<br>Free to join. By submitting you agree we may email you about Vyldor, and nothing else. One click unsubscribes. How your data is handled.
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Twenty-eight seconds, no sound. Every frame is rendered from the same design model as the photographs on this site, so it is the same belt from a moving camera rather than a different one built for the video.
No screenOne earpieceTwo haptic zonesOne button37 mm full-grain leatherYour phone does the thinking<br>No screenOne earpieceTwo haptic zonesOne button37 mm full-grain leatherYour phone does the thinking<br>No screenOne earpieceTwo haptic zonesOne button37 mm full-grain leatherYour phone does the thinking<br>No screenOne earpieceTwo haptic zonesOne button37 mm full-grain leatherYour phone does the thinking
The problem<br>Checking a phone to be told to turn left
Walking somewhere new, you take the phone out roughly every ninety seconds to confirm you have not missed a turn. In a meeting you flip it face down and still glance at it. On a train you hold it up to your ear because that is the only way to hear.<br>None of that is a hardware problem. The phone is already excellent at maps, at voice, at knowing who is calling. The problem is that its only way of reaching you is a bright rectangle that demands your eyes.<br>So Vyldor does not try to be a better phone. It is a different way for the phone you own to reach you: through your hips, through one earpiece, and through a single button you press on purpose.
What it does<br>Three things, and that is the whole list<br>We would rather do three things properly than ship a menu. Each one is a physical movement, so there is nothing to learn and nothing to look at.
01Pull the module out to talk<br>Drawing the audio module down out of the buckle is what starts a voice session. Nothing listens before that.<br>Read more<br>02Directions you feel at the hip<br>Two haptic zones, left and right, so you can follow a route without looking at anything.<br>Read more<br>03One button for the thing that matters<br>A single flush button under the buckle confirms anything you would not want happening by itself.<br>Read more
Rendered from the design model. Every image on this site is the same belt from a different angle.<br>The short spec<br>Numbers, not adjectives<br>Strap37 mm wide, 3.6 mm thick, black full-grain leather, painted edges<br>AdjustmentA ratchet, not holes. 103 mm of range in 5 mm steps, so 20 positions where a punched belt gives you five. The teeth are on the inside face of the free end and invisible from outside; a 9 mm keeper holds the tail flat<br>Buckle66 × 41 × 11.8 mm, matte anodised aluminium. The load path is mechanical and independent; the buckle also houses the audio bay<br>AudioOne mono module, 18 × 21 × 7 mm, in a bay inside the buckle. It stands 8.1 mm off your head. Voice-grade rather than hi-fi, roughly 2–3 hours of talking, recharges in the bay<br>HapticsTwo zones, 50 × 23 × 3.8 mm, one at each hip<br>Electronics96 × 24 × 4.8 mm along the back, under one continuous skin
Full spec and galleryHow it is built
Worn, not watched.<br>A belt is the one thing most people put on every morning without deciding to. That is the whole reason we picked it.
Read next<br>The belt37 mm of leather, one metal buckle<br>Real dimensions, real materials, and every part that hides on the body side.
How it worksThree things you can do with it<br>Pull the module out to talk, feel which way to turn, press once to confirm.
FeaturesThe things a wrist cannot do<br>Your body as a key, your walk as a password, and a strap that doubles as an antenna.
The appEvery setting is a switch<br>The belt holds no settings. The app holds all of them, and it gets built if enough people want the product.
DesignWhy it is built like this<br>Where the electronics sit, why the leather still carries the load, and what is not built yet.
Hear about it first<br>One email when there is something real to report: the first haptic test, the first working prototype, the day you can actually buy one.<br>Email addressJoin the waitlist<br>Free to join. By submitting you agree we may email you about Vyldor, and nothing else. One click unsubscribes. How your data is handled.<br>Thinking about backing it instead? Read the investor page
© 2026 Vyldor. Every product image is a render of the design model, not a photograph of finished hardware. The finished belt will differ from what you see here in places, because engineering always changes something once real parts, tolerances and...