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Cloud Canvas: A Cordless Digital Photo Display
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
Amber Case
Oct 1


Garden on the Wall® Earns Platinum Calm Tech Certification for Modular Indoor Greenery
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
Amber Case
Sep 24


Beyond the Backrooms: Creating Public Spaces to Be Less Liminal and More Human
Decades before the eerie horror of liminal spaces became on Internet meme, French anthropologist Marc Augé identified the phenomenon in his 90' classic, "Non-Places: Introduction to an Anthropology of Supermodernity".
Amber Case
Aug 11


What Happens When You Design a Conference Space That Gives Attention Back?
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.
Amber Case
Jul 29
Designing our future through the past
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