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WIRED Japan: "Calm Technology" evolves with inspiration from the 1000-year-old capital
In November, Amber Case, founder of Calm Tech Institute, visited Kyoto to report on the opening of the institute's first overseas base.
Amber Case
Feb 6


Announcing Calm Tech Certified™ and the First Class of Certified Products
Today we're excited to announce the launch of Calm Tech Certified™, a certification program designed to help companies create products that
Amber Case
Oct 29, 2024


A Physical Key to Digital Balance: Unpluq's Innovative Approach to Screen Time
The Calm Tech Institute sat down with Caroline Cadwell, CEO of Unpluq.
Amber Case
Sep 12, 2024


Creating Calm Tech Experiences
Humans and technology have worked alongside each other for thousands of years. It is only recently that technology has been forcing...
Amber Case
Mar 19, 2024


Why We Need a Future Where Technology is Calm
The Japanese translation of the book Calm Technology. Everyday we suffer a physical toll from the stress of poorly designed technology,...
Amber Case
Jan 9, 2024


How to Identify “Truthy” Tech Trends
Telling Alexa to tell a branded sink to dispense a robotic-amount of water in Amazon’s Smart Home of the Future. Image credit: Mashable...
Amber Case
Jul 11, 2023


Wacom and Design Week Milan: Calm Technology - Blending IoT into Everyday Life
How a Japanese Startup designs a “Calm User Interface” that re-defines the daily human-digital interaction in the smart home. You get up....
Amber Case
Jun 12, 2022


FTP045: Amber Case – Calm Technology and Human-Machine Interactions
Amber Case on Building Unintrusive Technology While many tech futurists argue for humans merging with machines as a utopian vision of the...
Amber Case
Sep 16, 2017
Designing our future through the past
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