As E Ink and E-paper technologies grow in number and quality, Calm Tech Institute is especially interested in new methods and products that highlight what's possible in this medium. Electronic paper now includes a growing family of reflective, low-power displays, including E Ink's electrophoretic screens, color e-paper, reflective LCDs, ChLCD and microfluidic displays, all of which show images by reflecting ambient light instead of emitting their own. Today, we're announcing

People spend roughly 90 percent of their time indoors. Most of that time is spent in spaces designed around efficiency, code compliance, and cost per square foot. Whether those spaces support the people inside them has historically been a secondary concern. Garden on the Wall® is a no-maintenance plant art system crafted with all-natural preserved moss and plant species, allowing buildings like workplaces, healthcare environments, airports and hospitals to bring nature insid

Invisible Display brings more information to the environment, allowing one to look at their schedule at a glance without loading an app or switching a browser tab. The Invisible Display is a 7.5-inch electronic ink calendar with a hand-finished wooden frame, made by Invisible Computers, a small hardware and software company based in Germany. The display connects to Google Calendar via a mobile app and refreshes every five seconds, showing the current schedule without notifica

At WEC 2026, the Calm Tech Institute and Hello! Destination Management tested a different approach. We built a multi-sensory Resilience Space inside the convention center and measured its impact using Zenus privacy-first sentiment analytics.

The Calm Tech Institute has awarded Ohm Health's Resonance Lamp a Calm Tech Gold Certification. The Lamp has two immediately impressive and unique features: first, the lamp housing is borosilicate glass. This material design makes it feel more like art or decoration than technology. Secondly, the Lamp has a small, stone-like controller that is noticeably warm and delightful. This biofeedback device reads the user's heart rate in real time and responds through light, sound,

Tech can communicate, but it doesn’t need to speak

Early models of the Roomba robotic vacuum cleaner uses a chime when finished, and a secondary indicator light to show when it needs cleaning

A color changing Colorfil filter indicates when it's time to change it.