IRVINE, Calif., Sept. 3, 2026 /CNW/ — Aurzen today introduced ZIP Pro, the world’s first tri-fold Full HD pocket projector. Built for mobile life, ZIP Pro combines a tri-fold design, native 1080p Full HD viewing, and portable operation in one device, bringing a more flexible big-screen experience to everyday use.

As the world’s first tri-fold pocket projector, ZIP Pro introduces a new projector format built around mobility instead of fixed placement. It is designed to bring Full HD viewing to the moments and spaces where a traditional TV or fixed projector setup is less practical, while keeping setup simple and the form factor easy to carry.

Aurzen built ZIP Pro to cut the tradeoffs that often keep portable projectors from being truly portable. It features the world’s first 10.7mm ultra-slim optical engine, measures just 487cc, and weighs 586g. Its signature Z-shape tri-fold structure also works as a built-in multi-angle stand, while Time-of-Flight (ToF) autofocus and four-point keystone correction help users unfold, place, and start watching with minimal adjustment.

ZIP Pro’s design philosophy is expressed by a formula engraved directly on the device:

Vmin ≈ Φmax / (η • κ)

For Aurzen, the formula captures the tradeoff between size, brightness, optical efficiency, and thermal efficiency. Instead of adding brightness by increasing size, weight, and cooling load, ZIP Pro was engineered to deliver 200 ANSI lumens and native 1080p Full HD in a truly pocketable form. The result is image performance tuned for dark-room and evening viewing without losing the portability that defines the product.

ZIP Pro is also built to make connection and playback more direct for a projector this compact. It supports AirPlay, Miracast, DLNA, and Google Cast, while AirLink P2P enables screen mirroring even without Wi-Fi. A USB-C port with DP Alt Mode allows direct wired projection from compatible phones and laptops, and ZIP Pro also introduces an industry-first Type-C direct projection for Nintendo Switch, supported by a dedicated Game Mode for faster response.

For private and mobile viewing, ZIP Pro supports 60-80 inch viewing in dark environments, with dual 2W stereo speakers and whisper-quiet operation as low as 24dB. An industry-first dual Bluetooth headphone output allows two people to listen privately at the same time. For mobile-first content, Vertical Full-Screen Mode fills the wall with vertical video without black bars, while an industry-first Smart Touch Display puts battery level, connection status, and controls directly on the device.

For portable use, ZIP Pro includes a built-in 38Wh battery for up to 2.5 hours of viewing and supports 65W PD charging via USB-C, making it easier to keep the device ready between uses and between destinations.

Mark your calendar: Aurzen’s online launch event for ZIP Pro will premiere on the Official YouTube channel. Tune in to the full reveal at youtu.be/GGA3hAlvdZc.

Aurzen ZIP Pro is now available for pre-order at aurzen.com with a list price of $629.99 and a limited-time introductory price of $579.99.

About Aurzen

Aurzen is a global innovator in smart projection technology. By combining advanced optical engineering with intuitive software and user-focused design, Aurzen delivers products that bring big-screen experiences to any space. The company pioneered the world’s first Tri-Fold Truly Portable Projector, ZIP, and its designs have been recognized with multiple international awards, including the iF Design Award, Red Dot Award, G-Mark Award, and IDEA Award. For more information, visit www.aurzen.com.

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At IFA 2026, Lingverse offers the first real-world look at iKairos’ modular design and unveils LifeOS, its operating system built for the physical world

BERLIN, Sept. 3, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Lingverse, a Singapore-based smart hardware and AI company pioneering context-aware AI systems, is debuting its human-machine interaction operating system, LifeOS, which forms the foundation that powers the modular AI wearable iKairos, being revealed at IFA 2026 today.

Uniquely designed to capture multiple perspectives and learn from the user’s personal preferences, routine and surrounding environment, iKairos takes the form of a circular pendant and acts as a ‘Neural Core’ that can be inserted into a wide ecosystem of hardware bodies and accessories. At its launch, iKairos will initially come housed within the body of a diminutive desktop robot designed to observe and interact with users, while also being removable and fitted into a wearable necklace for an entirely different perspective.

Unlike other wearable AI devices on the market, iKairos is the first to observe the world from multiple perspectives, enabling it to capture richer contextual data about the user, their surroundings and even their relationships with others. Its observations are fed into Lingverse’s human-machine interaction operating system, LifeOS.

Introducing LifeOS, Ensouled Intelligence Powering iKairos as a Neural Core

Designed to surface useful suggestions based on the user’s preferences, LifeOS on iKairos centralizes observations about routines, personality and relationships, from how the wearer works to how they live, alongside the context in which those preferences and behaviors occur. It takes periodic snapshots of everyday work routines and lifestyle habits, and also analyzes the user’s own relationships and experiences that shape their day. This allows iKairos to build a deeper understanding of the user’s everyday life and make sense of information from the real world on their behalf.

From identifying what’s relevant to the wearer and understanding what they’re focused on in the moment, to recognizing changes in their routines from one day to the next, LifeOS paints a fuller picture of the context surrounding the user’s everyday life. By connecting observations across different moments, it can surface insights or patterns that users may not have otherwise noticed by analyzing the user’s behavior and preferences.

In fact, LifeOS can help users better understand their own interactions and relationships. By connecting relevant context across conversations and experiences, it’s capable of analyzing and detecting patterns, connections or memories based on contextual information. For instance, iKairos may notice when a conversation topic, like taking up a hobby like sailing, keeps recurring but is consistently pushed aside, while taking into account information it already knows about the user, like their occasional shoulder pain. Recognizing that the user is stuck in inaction, iKairos will recommend taking up a beginner lesson at a local boathouse during the weekend. Or, in the event that a designer takes inspiration from an exhibited artifact’s intricate textures or colors, iKairos can recall the visuals and bring that fleeting moment back, saving users dozens of minutes of digging into their phone gallery or memory.

More significantly, iKairos’ modular form factor enables it to capture multimodal data, opening the door to a much broader long-term vision for Lingverse. Over time, these diverse real-world observations could help improve its understanding of users and contribute to the development of embodied intelligence. Ultimately, this could enable iKairos to serve as the core intelligence that can be plugged into different physical forms, akin to a robotic soul. This can allow future at-home robots to immediately draw on an existing understanding of a user’s habits, preferences, and routines simply by integrating iKairos into a compatible robotic body or accessory.

“Our vision for iKairos goes far beyond a single physical configuration. By moving between multiple form factors, LifeOS can bring together different perspectives of a user’s life to build a richer understanding of who they are, what they prefer, and the world around them, and to provide recommendations uniquely tailored to each user and their real-world context,” said Jiawei Gu, CEO and Founder of Lingverse. “Over time, we believe this can lay the foundation for a new generation of embodied intelligence, where that understanding can move with the user across wearables, desktop devices and eventually robotics. And we’re building toward that future with privacy at the forefront, ensuring users remain in control of their personal data.”

Protecting User Privacy by Design

iKairos incorporates both physical and software-based privacy protections throughout the system. These include a physical camera shutter, privacy indicator light, and manual mute button, giving users clear visibility into when the device is capturing audio or visual information and direct control over its sensors.

Voice detection and capture controls are handled locally on-device. When cloud processing is required, data is uploaded in accordance with the user’s privacy settings and authorization. However, data is encrypted both in transit and at rest. Behind the scenes, user data is not used to train the underlying AI model. Users can manage the retention period for their raw data and delete individual records or account-related data at any time, giving users greater control over when information is collected.

To learn more about iKairos and join the waitlist visit: https://www.ikairos.world/ 

For the iKairos press kit, visit https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1GldB-untybbrb9_s1YGtSj2bdGKPezUf?usp=sharing 

About Lingverse

Founded by CEO Jiawei Gu and headquartered in Singapore, Lingverse is a smart hardware company developing context-aware AI systems, pioneering the next generation of human AI interaction. Created on the belief that the future of AI lies not in answering prompts, but rather in understanding lives, Lingverse’s flagship product is iKairos, the world’s first dual-perspective personal AI wearable. Built on a modular robotic platform that simultaneously observes both its user and the surrounding environment, iKairos combines these two perspectives to develop a contextual understanding that enables proactive, personalized assistance for users rather than simple reactions to prompts.

Lingverse has raised US$29 million in Pre-A funding.

To learn more about Lingverse visit https://www.ikairos.world/ 

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The company’s build velocity is accelerating faster than ever, with its container image catalog reaching more than 3,000 unique container images and 675,000 image variants

KIRKLAND, Wash., Sept. 3, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Chainguard, the trusted source for open source, today announced it has surpassed 1 billion unique container build manifests, the artifacts generated every time a new image in its catalog is built, updated, or patched. With this news, the company has doubled its total build volume from 500 million in just six months. Chainguard has also reached 3,000 unique container images in the Chainguard Containers catalog, adding 1,000 additional images in the same timeframe. Together, these milestones demonstrate the company’s engineering rigor and the impact of its automated software factory, built specifically to accelerate output over time, at a moment when AI is redefining the speed of software supply chain attacks.

Keeping pace with AI-accelerated attacks 
It used to take a human attacker days or weeks to find a vulnerability and build a working exploit. AI has collapsed that timeline and can scan source code and dependencies, chain vulnerabilities together, and weaponize them into new, complex exploits in just hours, often before a fix for specific vulnerabilities reaches the public. As that window continues to collapse, and the time attackers need approaches zero, the only solution is to prevent attacks in the first place. The only durable defense is to remove all exposure by using open source software that is secure by design so it proactively defends against threats at every layer of the open source software supply chain.

“The gap between a disclosed vulnerability and a working exploit keeps shrinking, and closing that gap takes two things most vendors can’t offer together. You need a catalog broad enough to cover virtually every artifact an organization relies on, and the underlying speed to keep every image in that catalog up-to-date,” said Matt Moore, Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer, Chainguard. “Reaching 1 billion build manifests and doubling our output in just six months is a signal of both. The only way to stay ahead of attackers is to fix vulnerabilities before they can be exploited. That’s what the Chainguard Factory is built to do, at a pace we’re constantly accelerating.”

Chainguard Factory: the engine behind the acceleration
Doubling from 500 million to 1 billion build manifests in six months is the result of a fundamentally faster software factory. Earlier this year, Chainguard introduced Chainguard Factory 2.0, powered by DriftlessAF, a resilient, self-correcting build system that pairs traditional automation with agentic, AI-powered reconciliation bots. Where the original Chainguard Factory automated the mechanics of rebuilding open source software, Factory 2.0 operates at the speed of AI attacks: detecting drift, resolving dependency conflicts, and correcting itself in real time.

Through the Chainguard Factory, the company has now delivered:

1 billion+ build manifests: Chainguard has produced more than 500 million build manifests in the past six months alone. Build manifests reflect initial project builds, rebuilds from dependency updates and tooling changes, builds triggered by vulnerabilities, generated SBOMs and signatures, customer-produced custom images through Custom Assembly, and more.3,000+ unique container images: The Chainguard Containers catalog now features more than 3,000 images for which a minimal, low- or zero-CVE Chainguard image is available, including widely used applications, runtimes, and frameworks like go, NGINX, PostgreSQL, Python, Java, and many more. In just the past six months, the company added 1,000 new projects to the catalog.675,000+ image variants: With hundreds of thousands of architecture-specific image variants across its catalog, Chainguard delivers broad platform coverage and rapid availability of new versions and persistent availability of historical versions as upstream projects and architectures evolve.32,000+ unique Chainguard OS packages: By providing customers with thousands of underlying OS packages and hundreds of thousands of package versions,  Chainguard Factory assembles the building blocks that organizations need to customize their container images from Chainguard.

To date, Chainguard has eliminated 2 million CVEs across all of its customers. These are vulnerabilities that never had the chance to become incidents because they were resolved before the image shipped. Every new project, rebuild, and patch produced by Factory 2.0 shrinks the window an attacker has to work with. The faster Chainguard’s software factory moves, the more open source software it secures, preventing even more risk for customers.

“The depth of what Chainguard has built — and continues to improve — would take years and a very experienced team of experts to replicate,” said Maha Alsayasneh, Senior Engineering Manager, Elastic. “Partnering with Chainguard has let our engineers spend their time on the problems only we can solve, instead of chasing CVEs across our stack.”

Explore Chainguard’s container image catalog and learn more about working with Chainguard.

About Chainguard 
Chainguard is the trusted source for open source. By providing engineers and AI agents with hardened, trusted, and production-ready artifacts, Chainguard helps organizations prevent AI supply chain attacks, increase engineering velocity while reducing toil, and maintain continuous compliance. Customers include Fortune 500 enterprises and global industry leaders, including Anduril, Canva, DocuSign, OpenAI, Public Storage, Snap Inc., and Snowflake. Chainguard is venture-backed by leading investors, including Amplify, IVP, Kleiner Perkins, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Mantis VC, Redpoint Ventures, Sequoia Capital, and Spark Capital.  For more information, visit: https://www.chainguard.dev/ 

Contact: Brittany Hendrickson, press@chainguard.dev 

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