[umutisik]

Tablets and phones could be calm tech too if they adjusted their brightness and white-point correctly based on ambient lighting.

[jazzyjackson]

I thought an interesting move for the next Light Phone is to dedicate an entire knob to screen brightness [0], although they indicate it will be user programmable too.

https://www.thelightphone.com/blog/light-iii-design-manifest...

[sdflhasjd]

My previous phone had a scheduled "night time mood" which put the display into greyscale. Without this there's an intensity to the screen that reducing the brightness doesn't fix.

[malfist]

Calm tech isn't about nit levels. It's about how much the tech inserts itself into your attention.

[criddell]

I don't understand how the Daylight Computer, which is a full Android tablet, qualifies as calm tech.

[wink]

Maybe that's the spirit but you'll always have people who would like a clock on the wall, always visible and others who don't, but don't mind touching a button for it to light up. So I think "calm" can't be objective.

[yapyap]

I doubt those are the uncalming aspects of tablets and phones, sure they’re what keep you up at night on a physical level but not mentally.

[hammock]

+ Greyscale + some kind of refresh rate limiter to 1-2Hz instead of 60-120hz :)