# VidaBay Ships Battery-Free Duo Bag Charm and Opens OrbisPlant Platform

> VidaBay launched the Duo, a battery-free E-Ink bag charm with two screens, at $65.99, and opened OrbisPlant for custom E-Ink product development.

- Published: 2026-11-11T07:01:07+00:00
- Section: Product Launches
- Author: News Desk
- URL: https://newsforagent.com/news/2026-11-11/vidabay-duo-eink-bag-charm-orbisplant
- Source: [EIN Presswire](https://www.einnews.com/pr_news/955950272/battery-free-e-ink-brand-vidabay-ships-duo-bag-charm-and-opens-orbisplant-product-platform)

## Key takeaways

- VidaBay priced the Duo at $65.99, with a Black Friday price of $54.99.
- The Duo carries a 2.67-inch passive E-Ink panel on each face and refreshes over NFC with no battery.
- VidaBay opened OrbisPlant, a platform for brands and developers to build custom E-Ink products.

VidaBay launched the Duo, a battery-free E-Ink bag charm with a screen on each face, priced at $65.99 and $54.99 for the Black Friday window, and opened OrbisPlant, a platform for custom E-Ink products. [EIN Presswire](https://www.einnews.com/pr_news/955950272/battery-free-e-ink-brand-vidabay-ships-duo-bag-charm-and-opens-orbisplant-product-platform) reported the November 11 launch. The Hong Kong entity sells the Duo through its own site.

## How the VidaBay Duo Works

The Duo puts a 2.67-inch high-PPI passive E-Ink panel on both faces of a rounded shell wrapped in translucent blue or purple acrylic. A companion app pushes photos to either side independently, so two images can sit on the charm at once, or the same image on both. An embedded NFC tag opens linked content, such as a video clip, a song track, a digital business card, a webpage or an app link.

The phone supplies power over NFC during a transfer, long enough to redraw the screen, and the charged pigment particles then hold the image with no electricity. The charm needs no Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, cloud account or charging. Nathan Chee, VidaBay's CEO, said the Duo reuses the same E Ink Corporation panels found in the Snap. "We didn't switch to a different, more expensive panel for this product," Chee said. "The panel we already knew works gives us a price point we can live with, and it renders fine tonal detail on paper-like surfaces — people, pets, buildings all read with natural depth and clarity, which is what a keepsake image needs."

VidaBay said the Duo is the first bag charm to carry an E-Ink screen on each face. The company also formally opened OrbisPlant, a separate platform for brands and developers with an E-Ink application idea or a custom display requirement, offering a route from concept to finished product. VidaBay said the Duo is the most recent consumer device built on the same E-Ink and NFC-transfer stack that OrbisPlant now makes available externally. Ordering is through the VidaBay shop.

## VidaBay's Run of E-Ink Launches

VidaBay launched the Snap It & Show It contest for its NFC-powered E-Ink fridge magnet, which weighs about 30 grams and costs $30, with $100 to $500 gift cards and special prizes for authentic user photos, EIN Presswire reported in July 2026. The same month, EIN Presswire reported that VidaBay unveiled a Bluetooth Image Dock to simplify photo transfers for the Snap across all phones; the dock, powered via USB-C, was in final Bluetooth SIG certification with launch scheduled after certification.

## Samsung and Careflick Wearables

Samsung's Galaxy Buds On and SmartTag 3 became available in the US, [Android Authority](https://www.androidauthority.com/samsung-galaxy-buds-on-smarttag-3-available-us-3732461/) reported on November 6, 2026; the clip-on earbuds cost $229.99 and the SmartTag 3 costs $29.99 per tag or $99.99 for four. Careflick opened reservations for Oak1, an AI wearable for older adults, with shipping expected in January 2027, the [FinancialContent Business Page](https://www.financialcontent.com/article/marketersmedia-2026-11-1-careflick-introduces-oak1-a-personal-ai-wearable-bringing-greater-independence-to-older-adults) reported on November 1, 2026. Asmec began distributing Arducam's EgoSync-WEAR wearable data collection kit on October 31, [Prtimes](https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000000035.000192361.html) reported on November 5, 2026.

## Companies in this story

- VidaBay · website: https://www.vidabay.net

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