Q-BRANCH

Household gadgets division — Horizon Works. Every prototype below is staged for your hands; tap OPEN, then follow its “What to try”.

Commissioned 31 Oct 2026 · $0 · Sample data only in every prototype · Fixtures filed per item.


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M's Morning BriefingThe daily door — the whole house on one page. The Invisible WatermarkThe one true tool with a work product — a hidden ownership mark in your listing photos. Trial SentinelMoney-protecting utility — free trials that can't ambush you.

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B1 · Memo Rescue try it · PROTOTYPE · PATTERN DEMAND

Your voice memos, transcribed and searchable, offline. This is the reading end: sample memos, one search box, task lines pulled out. The transcription engine is the house's proven whisper bench.

Wave: From the Listening Sweep — Wave B1

B2 · Photo Rent Escape try it · PROTOTYPE · PATTERN DEMAND

Stop paying monthly to store your own photos: the home-vault report — duplicates, screenshots, junk, and the "you could stop paying when…" line. Move the sliders; the math is live.

Wave: From the Listening Sweep — Wave B1

B3 · Trial Sentinel try it · PROTOTYPE · PATTERN DEMAND

Free trials that can't ambush you: every trial carries its cancellation path, and the page flags T-2 and T-0. Local only — no accounts, no bank anything.

Wave: From the Listening Sweep — Wave B1

B4 · Backpack Flyer try it · PROTOTYPE · PATTERN DEMAND

A school flyer photo becomes dates, a bring-list, and a real calendar file. Parent tooling only — it stores nothing, and no child's details are ever data. Your eyes are the reader today; the OCR wiring is written in its record.

Wave: From the Listening Sweep — Wave B2

B5 · Find the Thing I Saved try it · PROTOTYPE

The FIND half of the photo-vault pair (B2 is the other half): your screenshots and saves in one searchable grid — by name, date, and the words inside them when the house OCR bench has indexed them. Nothing uploaded, nothing kept.

Wave: From the Listening Sweep — Wave B2

B6 · The Okay Loop try it · PROTOTYPE

One big daily tap: I'm okay. If the window closes on silence, your chosen person sees the notice — demonstrated on one phone, both ends, with a demo clock. It reports silence only; the safety lines are on its face.

Wave: From the Listening Sweep — Wave B2

B7 · Renter's Receipt try it · PROTOTYPE

A renter's timestamped log — photo, note, category — that exports one clean evidence packet. The timestamp is the receipt: set at save, un-editable, and the log says what it can and can't prove.

Wave: From the Listening Sweep — Wave B2

B8 · One-Page Ops try it · PROTOTYPE

A solo seller's whole desk on one page: bookings ahead, open orders, unpaid invoices with totals — fed by one CSV, computed locally, printable. Sample data is a fictional vendor; your real numbers never leave your device.

Wave: From the Listening Sweep — Wave B3 + Bonus

B9 · Car Book try it · PROTOTYPE

One book per car: parts, service, costs, photos — and a printable build sheet. The sample book is an invented sedan; your real books start empty, yours to fill.

Wave: From the Listening Sweep — Wave B3 + Bonus

B10 · Low-Stock Button try it · PROTOTYPE

A printed sheet on the shelf; one tap on a code and it's on the shared list. Codes today — the sheet itself explains why real QR waits for a screened library. One list, one device, honestly labeled.

Wave: From the Listening Sweep — Wave B3 + Bonus

B11 · Guide → Step Cards try it · PROTOTYPE

Paste any how-to; get big followable step cards, one at a time, with merge/split if the split lands wrong. The rules it splits by are printed on the page.

Wave: From the Listening Sweep — Wave B3 + Bonus

B12 · Land Report try it · PROTOTYPE

An observation spreadsheet becomes a printable field report — species totals, locations, date range — computed in the tab, never uploaded. Rows it can't read are confessed by line number.

Wave: From the Listening Sweep — Wave B3 + Bonus

B13 · Resurfacer try it · PROTOTYPE

Two-second capture; tomorrow morning it resurfaces. Forgiving by construction — snoozing is success, nothing turns red, and there is no such thing as overdue. Its state machine provably contains no miss-counting at all.

Wave: From the Listening Sweep — Wave B3 + Bonus

Bonus · Keyboard-Language Memory try it · PROTOTYPE

Which keyboard language belongs to which conversation — remembered, so your thumb doesn't have to be. It can't switch your keyboard (no page can, and it says so); it makes sure you switch to the right one.

Wave: From the Listening Sweep — Wave B3 + Bonus

Tradecraft & ciphers

1 · The Invisible Watermark works · TOOL · BUILT-PROVEN

A hidden ownership mark inside your listing photos — survives JPEG re-saves and resizing; proves a photo is yours. The working tool is a command-line program (the page explains it; the try-note gives the exact commands to have run for you).

Wave: The Eight Gadgets

2 · The Dead Drop try it · PROTOTYPE · VAULT GREEN

Seal a note behind a passphrase — encryption happens in your browser only; the wrong phrase cannot open it. Household prototype, sample data only.

Wave: The Eight Gadgets

A3-1 · Dead Drops & Microdots works · TOOL + EXPLAINER

The hiding layer beside the Dead Drop: a local tool that seals a note inside an ordinary photo, plus the microdot story and a hollow-object craft note. Its law, printed on its face: steganography hides existence; encryption protects content.

Wave: Wave A3 — Tradecraft, Ciphers & Voice (owner addition)

A3-2 · Enigma try it · EXPERIENCE

A faithful software Enigma — rotors, rings, plugboard, double-stepping and all; the canonical test vector checks out exactly. A museum piece, and its face says where real secrecy lives: the Dead Drop.

Wave: Wave A3 — Tradecraft, Ciphers & Voice (owner addition)

A3-3 · Self-Destructing Message try it · SERVICE + DEMO

Burn-after-reading notes, local-first: the server never sees plaintext; one view or a timer, then the store holds nothing — proven by fixtures against the real server. The message only; the fence is printed on its face.

Wave: Wave A3 — Tradecraft, Ciphers & Voice (owner addition)

5 · The Watch Tap Signal try it · CODEBOOK + PROTOTYPE

A silent tap language — check-in, come-here, all-clear, distress — demonstrated on your phone with real buzz patterns and the exact alert shapes it would send the house correlator.

Wave: The Eight Gadgets

A5 · Sending Stones try it · PROTOTYPE

D&D's paired message stones on one screen — cast a note or a voice clip to the other stone. The once-per-dawn limit is ON, with a labeled demo override.

Wave: From the Fiction Catalog — Wave A1

A3-4 · Voice Changer try it · PROTOTYPE + PACKET

Your own voice, transformed in your browser — effects, honestly labeled — plus the packet for real conversion on the house GPU. Consent-only, imitates no one, and the fences are printed on it.

Wave: Wave A3 — Tradecraft, Ciphers & Voice (owner addition)

A25 · Shoe Phone try it · PROTOTYPE

The functional build: a dial pad that hands calls to your own dialer, a line test for the earpiece path, an assistant button where the browser honestly offers one — and the pairing recipe, because browsers can't pair headsets. The shoe itself is your craft; it's still on the gear register.

Wave: Wave A3 — Tradecraft, Ciphers & Voice (owner addition)

Senses & house

3 · M's Morning Briefing try it · PROTOTYPE · MORNING DOSSIER

The whole house on one page: weather, perimeter, today's schedule, market, overnight — sample data in every slot, shaped to wire to the real desks.

Wave: The Eight Gadgets

A1 · Minority Report Interface try it · PROTOTYPE

Conduct an evidence board with your hands — webcam gesture control (mouse/touch always work). The interface is real; precognition stays labeled folklore on its face.

Wave: From the Fiction Catalog — Wave A1

A2 · Antikythera try it · PROTOTYPE

The 2,000-year-old astronomy computer as a working page: bronze dials computing real sun and moon positions for any date you pick.

Wave: From the Fiction Catalog — Wave A1

A3 · Pip-Boy try it · PROTOTYPE

A wrist-terminal dashboard reading your phone's real data — clock, battery, device facts, notes. Sensors it can't read say UNAVAILABLE; nothing is faked.

Wave: From the Fiction Catalog — Wave A1

A4 · Scrying Orb try it · PROTOTYPE

The palantír, honestly: your spare phones as local camera eyes on one dashboard. One live slot (this device's own camera, behind a button); the rest are setup recipes — no fake feeds.

Wave: From the Fiction Catalog — Wave A1

A6 · Tricorder / Science Slate try it · PROTOTYPE

A handheld sensor slate: every sensor your phone really has, read live and logged with timestamps. What it can't sense prints UNAVAILABLE with the reason — nothing is simulated.

Wave: From the Fiction Catalog — Wave A2

A7 · Pokédex Scanner try it · PROTOTYPE

Point the camera at a card or a plant: a local color/shape heuristic offers a GUESS — labeled a guess, with its measured basis — against an invented field guide. Not identification, and it says so.

Wave: From the Fiction Catalog — Wave A2

A8 · Magic Mirror try it · PROTOTYPE · PAGE FIRST

Mirror-calm display: a real clock, and weather / today / house-status slots — every unfed tile stamped SAMPLE, its wiring path written in the build record.

Wave: From the Fiction Catalog — Wave A2

A9 · Scouter (Honest) try it · PROTOTYPE

A camera overlay that measures light and motion in the frame and prints its formulas. It refuses power levels, faces, and identities — on its face.

Wave: From the Fiction Catalog — Wave A2

A10 · Portal Door try it · PROTOTYPE

The always-open doorway, demonstrated on one device: the far panel arrives through a real WebRTC loopback. The two-room version is a printed recipe, not a faked feed.

Wave: From the Fiction Catalog — Wave A2

A11 · JARVIS House try it · SLICE + PACKET

A house console that answers commands and moves its (sample) house state — the interaction, working today. The house itself is not connected; the packet is the wiring, step by tagged step.

Wave: The Wiring Wave — working slices + honest packets

A12 · Marauder's Map try it · SLICE + PACKET

A living floor plan replaying a sample evening of room presence — invented plan, invented tokens, tracking nothing. The real map's wiring, consent frame, and off-switch are in the packet.

Wave: The Wiring Wave — working slices + honest packets

A13 · KITT Voice try it · SLICE + PACKET

The talking car computer's voice half: chat with a sample car, answers computed from its stated state. The sensor half rides the Valet dossier — the packet says what has to happen first. Read-only toward any car, forever.

Wave: The Wiring Wave — working slices + honest packets

A15 · Concealment Camera try it · PROTOTYPE

A spare phone as a quiet eye on your own shelf: motion-triggered stills, a cover face, nothing uploaded, and no audio by design. Its lawful fences are part of the build, printed on the setup panel.

Wave: Packet + Prop

Packets & dossiers

4 · The Counterparty Check read it · PACKET · READY

Before a cash deal at a show: what a phone-number check can and can't tell you, graded honestly. The first live test run is staged for a short sitting (the packet says why).

Wave: The Eight Gadgets

6 · The Hotel Sweep try it · SPEC + DEMO

Scan a room's radios on arrival, scan again later, see what changed. The demo runs on your two sealed Detector sessions from tonight, treated as baseline vs sweep.

Wave: The Eight Gadgets

7 · The Decoy Network read it · PACKET + VIEWER

A fake open hotspot on spare hardware that only listens and logs. Packet + a viewer over sample logs — nothing is deployed on any real network.

Wave: The Eight Gadgets

8 · The Valet Log read it · DOSSIER · FORMING

Can your car report on itself while parked? The honest answer, from your own logs: what MHD/Dragy/OBD can and can't sense asleep — and the one overnight test that would settle it.

Wave: The Eight Gadgets

Status-empty, on purpose: DOSSIER · FORMING — no build yet; this dossier is the item, and it stays on the shelf in the open.

A14 · Universal Translator read it · PACKET · UNPROVEN

Offline conversation translation, set up right: download the language packs once at home, then the phones talk with nothing leaving the device. Includes a 33-phrase pocket phrasebook. The packet stays UNPROVEN until your first run — it says so.

Wave: Packet + Prop

Program Queue & Dispositions read it · RECORD

Every stream accounted for: the eight gadgets, all 92 fiction-catalog rows (42 buildable · 26 forming · 10 far · 14 folklore), and the listening sweep when it lands. Verdicts govern building, never retention.

Wave: The Whole Pipeline

Listening Sweep read it · INGESTED · 28 ROWS

The demand ledger is in: 28 graded wants (5 pattern · 7 recurring · 16 anecdote), 13 build candidates queued, occupied shelves marked do-not-re-derive. The loudest demand in it: stop paying rent on your own stuff.

Wave: The Whole Pipeline

Waiting on gear

Deferred, never dropped — from the Q-Branch Gear Register (2026-10-31). No spend now; each item revives when its gear enters the house, and returns then as a priced proposal read live.

A-16 · Medical Tricorder (honest slice)

Waits on: Bluetooth vitals peripherals. Revives when: peripherals inventoried.

A-17 · Goggles of Night

Waits on: ESP32 + IR camera + IR LEDs. Revives when: IR hardware inventoried.

A-18 · Household Automata

Waits on: a vacuum / rover / arm the house owns. Revives when: first automaton inventoried.

A-19 · Alchemy Jug Dispenser

Waits on: ESP32 + food-safe peristaltic pumps. Revives when: pumps on the kitchen bench.

A-20 · Gravity Gun (bench)

Waits on: open-source acoustic levitator kit. Revives when: kit on the bench.

A-21 · Replicator (analogue)

Waits on: home FDM 3D printer + open model libraries. Revives when: printer enters the house.

A-22 · Holodeck (analogue)

Waits on: Quest-class VR headset. Revives when: the Quest purchase (already a recorded future buy).

A-23 · Lightsaber (prop)

Waits on: neopixel prop kit (duel-safe effect only). Revives when: kit in hand.

A-24 · Invisibility (shadow)

Waits on: lenticular shield sheet (buy or DIY panel). Revives when: owner's per-item ruling + sheet.

A-25 · Shoe Phone (prop)

Waits on: hollow-sole prop shoe — the functional earpiece build is live above, in Tradecraft & ciphers; this line waits only on the prop. Revives when: prop assembled.

Catalog №13 · Insect Drone, rotor analogue

Waits on: consumer FPV drone (Avata-class) or ESP32 micro-drone kit — the insect-scale original is research-only; this line buys its job, remote eyes and ears. Revives when: drone or kit enters the house.