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Last updated 13 August 2026
One line
Vyldor is a leather belt that lets your phone reach you without a screen.
Short, about 50 words
Vyldor is a leather belt that measures your waist from the tension in the buckle, two haptic zones at the hips and one hidden button. Pull the strap, feel a tap instead of reading a notification, press once to confirm anything that matters. It is a design concept; no hardware has been built.
Longer, about 120 words
Vyldor is an early-stage hardware company in Europe building a leather belt that acts as a screen-free interface to the phone you already own, on iPhone and on Android. A strain gauge sits in the flexure of the buckle; the tension it reads it out is what starts a voice session, so there is no wake word and nothing listening while it is seated. Two soft haptic zones sit at the hips, and one flush button under the buckle confirms anything consequential.
The format also creates research possibilities that a wrist may not: a long loop around the torso, a large area of skin contact and placement near the body’s centre of mass. A strap antenna, gait-based wearer verification and waist measurement are unvalidated research directions, not working product features.
The product definition and 3D concept model are ready to guide prototyping. The electronics are not built. Nothing has been worn.
Fact sheet
- What it is
- A leather belt that works as a screen-free interface to a phone
- Founder
- Vojta Holeš, 16, Czech Republic; solo founder
- Stage
- Design complete, no hardware built
- Founded
- 2026
- Based
- Europe
- Funding
- None raised; pre-seed conversations open
- Availability
- Not for sale. Waitlist only
- Platform
- iPhone and Android
Specification
- Strap
- 37 mm wide, 3.6 mm thick, black full-grain leather, painted edges
- Adjustment
- A 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
- Buckle
- 66 × 41 mm, matte anodised aluminium, purely mechanical. The only electrical thing in it is a strain gauge under the leather collar, thinner than a third of a millimetre
- What it measures
- Waist circumference, continuously, from the tension in the strap. The same signal carries breathing, meals, sitting and coughing
- Haptics
- Two zones, 50 × 23 × 3.8 mm, one at each hip
- Electronics
- 96 × 24 × 4.8 mm along the back, under one continuous skin
- Screen
- None. Nothing to look at, by design
- Sound
- None. Your phone already has speakers
- Charging
- USB-C behind a cover on the back of the belt
- Works with
- iPhone and Android, over Bluetooth. Both get the full set of controls
- Without a phone
- It keeps measuring and syncs later. Without electronics entirely it is still a belt
Every dimension is a design target from the 3D model, not a measurement of a finished part.
Please do not write
Five things that would be wrong
Not legal boilerplate. These are the specific mistakes a reader would take away from a well-meaning article, and correcting them afterwards never works.
“You can buy it”
You cannot. There is no price, no ship date and no pre-order.
“Photos of the belt”
They are renders from a 3D model. No physical belt exists to photograph.
“It tracks your health”
It is not a medical device and measures nothing about your body's condition.
“It works on its own”
It needs a phone. Without one it is a belt, and that is by design.
“It is always listening”
The belt has no microphone at all. It cannot hear anything. What it senses is the tension in its own strap and the movement of your body. Not pulled out.
“Funded startup”
Nothing has been raised yet. Pre-seed conversations are open, no investment closed.
Images
Free to use, with credit
Credit “Vyldor” and call them renders. Right-click to save, or email for the full-resolution masters, which are 2.5k PNGs.
Talk to the person building it
Interviews, questions and fact-checks all go to hello@vyldor.com. If you want the unflattering version of the story, ask for it; the status page is already public and it is deliberately blunt.