mui Lab to Present Family Memory Archiving System, Featuring Wood Pillar You Can Scribble on

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A Kyoto-based IoT design startup, will present an exhibit at CES Unveiled Las Vegas on Jan. 5, featuring “Hashira no Kioku (Height Marking in Wood),” a family memory curation system. This will be mui’s first North American introduction of the system, which is built around a “connected” wooden pillar on which one can write and draw with a digital pen. During the event, the company will also unveil “mui 1st edition,” a market-ready model of the mui smart-home control panel.

Developed collaboratively by mui Lab and Wacom Co., the world’s leading provider of pen tablets, “Hashira no Kioku (Height Marking in Wood)” enables families to digitally continue enjoying the universal family practice of marking their children’s height measurements on the wall, using mui’s uniquely design wooden pillar and Wacom’s digital pen. The pillar is impregnated with the mui technology that turns a wood surface into a touch-sensitive display panel. The system automatically stores the measurement with a time stamp. Then, from time to time, it displays a beautiful poem about a child’s growth on a wooden storage box in the room – which is connected to the system via the cloud – to bring back the beautiful family memory and wonderful feeling associated with it. By using the pen to manipulate an image of a clock that appears on the box, one can also retrieve measurements and message entries from specific dates in the past.

“Hashira no Kioku (Height Marking in Wood)” represents a brand-new application of mui, a ‘calm’ interface technology designed to keep a device outside of the user’s consciousness while fulfilling its purpose,” said mui Lab CEO Kaz Oki. “The Hashira system takes data, deciphers a wonderful human experience, and the emotions behind it, and translates that into a work of art that highlights the beauty of family life. It aims to enrich the user’s memories of each user’s memories of their most precious moments.”

“mui 1st edition” is a wooden touch panel that serves as a smart home control hub. Designed as a distraction-free “calm design” interface for the post-smart screen era, mui enables users to focus on their tasks at hand and be in the moment while staying digitally “connected.” One year after the successful completion of a Kickstarter campaign for mui, which garnered $114.696 (114 percent of the goal amount) in pledges from 278 backers, mui Lab is now ready to deliver the product in January 2020.