You’re adapting to your computer. It should be the other way around.
The Intent–Action Gap
Every day you spend hours translating your thoughts into mechanical operations: memorizing shortcuts, hunting through nested menus, resizing overlapping windows. The computer does not adapt to your brain — you adapt to its machine logic.
QWERTY was designed to slow down typing to prevent physical key jams.
A 150-year-old physical layout that forces your thoughts onto 104 static plastic buttons — originally engineered to stop typewriter arms from jamming.
The mouse converted arm movements into coordinate offsets to point at a flat monitor.
Engelbart's mouse translated continuous hand motion into horizontal and vertical coordinates, flattening a 3D physical workspace into a screen cursor.
Operating systems adopted paper-office desks, folders, and documents to fit small screens.
Windows, Icons, Menus, Pointer. A paper-office desk metaphor built for 1980s personal computers. We are still resizing windows and clicking folder paths forty years later.
Compute power has multiplied millions of times, yet the bottleneck remains the keyboard and cursor.
CPU power has multiplied millions of times. Yet we still interface with computers by pressing mechanical keys and pushing coordinate cursors. The interface is the bottleneck.
The cost of doing nothing
Traditional monitors anchor you to a specific desk, chair, and cable array. The posture is static, the fatigue is real. Portable computing forces you to compromise on a single 13-inch display.
You spend a massive portion of your workday dragging, resizing, snapping, and swapping window borders. The OS acts as a rigid files-and-menus filing cabinet rather than an intuitive partner.
Standard monitors emit light outwards, making your work visible to anyone nearby. Working in public means projecting your private code, spreadsheets, or designs to strangers.
It’s time for the interface to catch up.
Spaceboard is a new category of device. An AI-capable 14 inch OLED tactile surface that understands gesture and context. It’s the laptop, reimagined.
Your keyboard has 104 keys. You use about 15 of them regularly. The rest is dead plastic — a layout designed for typewriters, shoehorned into the digital age.
Spaceboard is a single capacitive surface. Pinch to zoom. Swipe to navigate. Tap to select. The interface adapts to what you’re doing — typing when you need to type, gesturing when you need to gesture. No memorization. The surface maps to what you’re trying to do.
The surface reads how you touch — speed, direction, multi-point patterns, gesture sequences. Touch a document and swipe left: next page. Two-finger press on a paragraph: context selection.
Spaceboard is AI-capable. It doesn’t just capture input — it understands it. The intelligence is in the device, reading your intent as it happens.
Your desk: laptop, monitor, keyboard, mouse, HDMI dongle, USB hub. Two or three cables just to see your work.
Spaceboard streams to your display glasses wirelessly. Put on the glasses, set down the surface, you’re working. No pairing. No dongles. No cables. Your entire workstation fits in a bag.
The laptop form factor hasn’t meaningfully changed in 15 years. Thinner screens. Better batteries. Same clamshell, same keyboard, same trackpad. Faster chips, same interface.
Spaceboard is the next step: a portable 14 inch OLED device with a touch-first, AI-native interface. Input on the surface, display in wireless glasses. You work from a café table, a train seat, a couch — anywhere you can set down a flat surface.
The keyboard anchored you to a desk. The Spaceboard lets you express yourself.
| Laptop | Spaceboard | |
|---|---|---|
| Input | Keyboard + trackpad | Adaptive touch surface |
| Display | Built-in screen | Wireless glasses — multi-monitor |
| Privacy | Screen visible to all | Visible only to wearer |
| Portability | Clamshell on flat surface | Flat surface, any angle |
| AI | Copilot bolted on | Native intent understanding |
| Cables | Minimum 2 | Zero |
| Desk required? | Yes | No |
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Built on Rust and Wayland. Designed around WIGI — a new interaction paradigm that replaces 40 years of WIMP. Intuitive content arrangement, intent-driven interaction, AI that stays on your machine.
In a traditional OS, you manage windows. Snap them to halves. Minimize them. Alt-tab between them. Lose them behind other windows. The OS gives you a grid and tells you to figure it out.
Portal arranges content in intuitive space. Your email lives where you put it — top-left, because that’s where you look for it. Your IDE stays center-right. Your research notes float near your browser. Drag, group, arrange. Related files gravitate toward each other.
In WIMP, you click File → Open → navigate → select. Four actions to open a document you already knew the name of.
In WIGI, you approach a file and it opens. Drag content near a folder and it suggests moving. Look at a notification and it reads aloud. The Context Engine reads your working state and surfaces what you need — before you search for it.
Your prompts, your documents, your code — all processed on someone else’s server. You trust a corporation with your most sensitive work because there’s no alternative.
Portal is different. Elara — Portal’s AI assistant — runs locally. She manages your workspace, responds to voice commands, and helps you navigate. Nothing leaves your machine unless you explicitly send it. Portal is source-available under the Demain Source License. Read the code. Audit what Elara does. Privacy isn’t a toggle. It’s the architecture.
WIMP — Windows, Icons, Menus, Pointers. The dominant interaction paradigm since 1973. Every major OS: Windows, macOS, Linux desktops, ChromeOS. The same model for 50 years.
WIGI — Windows, Icons, Gestures, Intent — replaces the pointer and the menu with gesture and anticipation. Designed for touch surfaces, intuitive displays, and AI-assisted interaction. You confirm actions. You don’t navigate to them.
Not a chatbot in a sidebar. Not a voice you trigger with a wake word. Elara is integrated into the OS — aware of your intuitive layout, your context, your open applications.
“Move my research notes near my browser” — done. “What was I working on yesterday?” — surfaced. She navigates by voice, manages files, anticipates needs — all through the Portal Control Protocol. Every action logged. Every permission explicit. Useful without being intrusive.
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Lightweight aluminum frames with all-day battery and direct-to-eye projection. Multiple virtual displays in your field of view. Not VR. Not a phone strapped to your face. A pair of glasses you actually want to wear.
Two monitors minimum, three if you’re serious. Stands, cables, neck strain, $1,000+ in hardware, half your desk gone.
Renaissance Glasses give you multiple virtual displays in your field of view. Browser center-left, code center, docs center-right. Eye tracking enables gaze-based navigation — look at a display and it comes into focus. Your eyes are the pointer.
Most head-mounted displays are built for entertainment — immersive worlds, gaming sessions, movie theaters for one. Impressive for an hour. Then they go back on the shelf.
Renaissance Glasses are built for work. Aluminum frame for durability and thermal management. Hot-swappable battery — swap without powering down, without removing the glasses. Lightweight enough to wear through your entire workday.
VR isolates you — opaque headset, virtual world, controllers in your hands. Renaissance Glasses are transparent. See-through lenses. Your workspace is overlaid on the real world — look up, see the room. Your screens stay where you placed them.
Lightweight, all-day wearable, designed for work. Put them on in the morning and forget they’re there.
Direct-to-eye projection. No backlight illuminating a 27-inch panel. Less power → smaller battery → lighter frame → longer wear. Efficiency isn’t a feature. It’s what makes the whole thing possible.
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Join Waitlist →Every device communicates through structured, low-latency protocols. Nothing is peripheral. Compare that to today: a laptop, plus external monitor, plus keyboard, plus mouse. Three brands, four cables, six drivers, one desk. Ours is one system. One design language. One interaction model.
Adaptive touch surface. Gesture + context.
WIGI. Intuitive workspace. Elara, on-device.
Multi-display, direct-to-eye, see-through.
Demain was founded on a simple observation: the way humans interact with computers hasn’t kept up with what computers can do. We’re part of the Station F Fighters program. Our source code is available under the Demain Source License — read it, audit it, verify it.
VR isolates you in a virtual world. Renaissance Glasses are transparent — see your workspace overlaid on reality. No isolation, no motion sickness, no controllers.
Renaissance Glasses are lightweight, all-day wearable, and designed as a wireless display — not a standalone computer. They show your workspace without isolating you from the world around you.
Spaceboard has a 14" OLED surface, but streams its display wirelessly to glasses. No screen to hide, no angle constraints, no desk required. A laptop that doesn't force you to sit at a desk.
Portal uses WIGI instead of WIMP. Content arranged intuitively, not in windows on a taskbar. Interaction is intent-driven, not click-driven. AI runs locally, not in the cloud.
Source-available under the Demain Source License. Read the code, audit the system, verify privacy claims.
Elara runs entirely on-device. Understands workspace context, manages files, responds to voice. Nothing leaves your machine.
Portal OS: active development. Spaceboard: prototype. Glasses: prototype. Join the waitlist for updates and early access.
The Spaceboard and Renaissance Glasses are designed as a pair — the glasses serve as your display, and the Spaceboard is your input surface. Portal OS ties them together. In the future, Portal and the Spaceboard may become compatible with other AR glasses or lightweight headsets, but at launch they work as a unified system.
Pricing will be announced closer to launch.
Windows, Icons, Gestures, Intent. The next interaction paradigm, replacing WIMP. Gesture + gaze + context instead of pointer + menu + click.
Join the waitlist to be among the first to experience intuitive computing.
Demain is a French technology company building the next generation of human-computer interaction. We believe computing should be intuitive — shaped around how people naturally think and work, not the other way around.
Our three products — Spaceboard, Portal OS, and Renaissance Glasses — work together as a unified computing platform. No cables, no clutter, no learning curve.