The business card that turns on
A real circuit board with a screen, buttons and a coin cell, the size of the card in your wallet. Hand it over and it does the talking.
Bare board
0.6 mm thick. The card starts as a bare circuit board.
The first thing you hand someone, made worth keeping.
Most business cards are read once and thrown away. The AE35 is a working circuit board that people hold, click through and show to the next person.
Nobody throws away a computer
A paper card ends up in a drawer or the bin. A card with a screen gets turned on, passed around and talked about, so you are remembered long after the meeting.
Several screens, not four lines
Your name, what you do, a line about your work and a QR code to your site, one click apart. Paper runs out of room after an address and a phone number.
Works the moment it is in their hand
Tap-to-share cards need the other person's phone and an app or a link to open. The AE35 shows everything on its own screen. Flip the switch and press a button.
Proof of what you build
For engineers, founders and anyone who makes things, the card is a sample of the craft: a 0.6 mm board with its own screen, controller and a battery holder cut from the board itself.
Animations and games made for your company.
The screen is a real display run by the card's own controller. Beyond your name and a QR code, every company can have its own animation and its own small game, built around what it does. Here is an example made for a defense company.
It's up to you.
The card is a small computer, so what it shows is a design choice, not a template. Each company or person decides what the screens, buttons and links do. The back of the card is open space as well, with room for a bigger logo, a message, a map or more artwork.
A page for each project, each with a QR code that opens the full write-up, photos or video.
Your studies or papers as pages, with a QR code to each one and the key finding on screen.
Walk through the product line on the buttons and link straight to a demo or spec sheet.
Open roles, one per page, with a QR code to apply.
A schedule, a booth number or a badge that shows who you are.
An animation or game built around what you do: a molecule for biotech, a docking game for aerospace, a radar for defense.
Today you insert a coin cell. Next, it's built in.
Insert a CR2016
- Slide a CR2016 coin cell face up into the spring arms marked CELL IN.
- Swap it yourself when it runs low.
- The holder is cut from the board, so it adds almost no thickness.
Battery built in
- A thin battery is built into the card.
- No slot and nothing to insert or swap.
- A step toward a whole card no thicker than 1.6 mm.
One card. Every part does a job.
Say more than paper
Details +Click through you
Details +Runs on a coin cell
Details +Scan to reach you
Details +Built in versions
Each version fixes what the last one taught us. AE//35 is the current version.
First complete card: screen, buttons, switch and coin cell.
Built · in testNew battery holder cut from the board, reshaped screen opening, 2 mm shorter, 0.6 mm board.
Current versionStart/stop button replaces the switch, better-feeling buttons.
In designThinner, with a battery built into the card.
PlannedMake the first thing you hand someone worth keeping.
Keryix builds electronic business cards. Paper cards say a few lines, get thrown away and are soon forgotten. The AE35 is something people keep, click through and show the next person, and it draws people in the moment they see it. It is still in development, and orders open when it is ready.
Start from the AE35. Make it yours.
Drag your name, title and logo anywhere there is open board, pick a board color, choose what the screen shows and see your price. Screen designs are a one-time cost with your order.
Drag anything with a dashed outline. Arrow keys nudge the selected item.
The screen, buttons, controller and battery stay where they are on this template so the card works as built. More layouts are coming.
1 Text and logo
Pictures are turned into one color, the way they print: white silkscreen or gold. More silkscreen colors are coming later.
2 Plan your screens
Tell us what the screen should do. You don't need to design it here: a designer finishes it with you in the last step.
3 The back
The back also carries the screen's ribbon and the steel plate behind the screen. Keep artwork on the open board around them.
4 Your order
Draft pricing. Screen designs are a one-time payment with your order, not per card.
5 Finish your design
Your card layout and screen plan go to a designer, who works with you to finish the screens before anything is made.
- Your card layout, screen plan and brief arrive at Keryix together.
- A designer replies to the email you give us with a first draft of your screens and any questions.
- You go back and forth until you're happy, then approve it. Nothing is made until you approve the design.
If your email doesn't open, write to and into the message.
What the AE35 screen can do
What the card shows is up to each company or person: a portfolio, research, a product demo, or its own animations and games. Choose a company and what to show, then use the three buttons under the screen. The gold label above each button tells you what it does.
Click the buttons under the screen, or use ← → and space.
A simulation in your browser. Text pages and QR codes are what the card shows today; animations and games are being written for the card's firmware now.
This page will keep growing
More examples will be added here as they are built: custom page layouts, slideshows, more games and tools for designing your own screens.