The star of CES 2020 is a piece of wood covered in a thin layer of LED lights

World’s first smart wooden STICK debuts at CES that helps parents track their children’s height and lets kids doodle on the wall without leaving a mark

  • Pillar Memory is a wooden beam with thin layer of LED lights and touch sensors
  • Owners use a digital pen to draw on the wood, which is then saved in the cloud 
  • It is designed for parents to keep track of their children’s height as they grow
  • The lines will fade after a few seconds, but will be recorded in cloud storage 

The ‘world’s first’ smart wooden stick aims to bring back the old fashioned tradition of marking children’s heights on the wall.

Demonstrated at CES 2020 in Las Vegas, the Pillar Memory is a wooden post fitted with thin layer of white LED lights and capacitive touch sensors. 

Users write directly onto the board using digital pens  to create soft white LED-lit lines that record a child’s height. 

The lines fade after a few seconds, but are recorded in cloud storage via a Wi-Fi receiver that comes embedded in the wooden post, according to Gizmodo.

Pillar Memory is a new collaboration between Japanese startup Mui Lab and graphic design supplier Wacom, which will let people use a digital pen to create LED drawings on a specially designed wooden post

The device was designed in collaboration between the graphic design supplier Wacom and the Japanese smart home startup Mui Lab Inc. 

It comes with a storage system that keeps track of height data and can be use dby multiple people, so the whole family can chart their relative growth.

Young children can also doodle directly on the wooden post with the digital pens. 

The markings will disappear a few seconds after they’ve grown bored, but they could also be saved in cloud storage and retrieved later on as part of a digital scrapbook.

The Pillar Memory will also let users draw on the wood or write short messages for one another, which can be saved to cloud storage for later retrieval

The Pillar Memory will also let users draw on the wood or write short messages for one another, which can be saved to cloud storage for later retrieval

The digital pens, designed by Wacom, come in three options modeled after natural materials: wood, chalk, and charcoal

The digital pens, designed by Wacom, come in three options modeled after natural materials: wood, chalk, and charcoal

The digital pens were developed by Wacom and come with three different ‘jackets’ intended to resemble natural materials traditionally used for drawing: chalk, charcoal, and wood.

The Pillar Memory is part of Mui Lab’s larger project of trying to make technology feel more natural and less intrusive in daily life.

The company wants to create devices dedicated to ‘cherishing human richness,’ and which emphasize ‘the traditional customs and habits that are often lost in the midst of technology’s advancement.’

Last year, the company revealed a smart home hub that was similarly built around a piece of wood that used the same unobtrusive LED technology to display weather information, incoming text messages, and display reminders about upcoming appointments.

That device also comes with a built-in speaker and Bluetooth receiver and could be used as an interface for Google Assistant, Sonos, with a number of other smart home products, including Sonos, and Philips Hue system of light bulbs.

‘The technology is indispensable,’ Kaz Oki, co-founder said in a promotional video for the company, ‘but we think that by making the technology invisible we can make the quality of our time more satisfying again,’

Mui Lab wants to create new uses of technology that encourage its users to 'cherish human richness'

Mui Lab wants to create new uses of technology that encourage its users to ‘cherish human richness’

 

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