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The Mui Board is, as far as smart home controllers go, soothing and nondescript. There’s no bright HD screen, or even anything obviously technological. It’s a smooth piece of wood that gently glows when you interact with it. So it makes sense that Mui Lab would suggest it as an excellent option for the bedroom. And, if you’re gonna have this weird connected bar hanging near your bed, it might be nice if it could also track your sleep.
The company’s new Mui Calm Sleep Platform for the Mui Board Gen 2 will work with millimeter-wave sensors to track your sleep state without you having to strap on a smartwatch, headband, or even a ring. Instead, it will sense changes in your posture and breathing using radar. The technology is supposedly nearly as accurate as a wearable EEG, but there haven’t been many commercial products with it yet, and the jury is still out on its accuracy. While the Mui Board will initially rely on external third-party sensors, the company is also showing off a modified version at CES with the sensors built in.
Instead of making sleep some sort of numbers-based competition (that, if you’re anything like me, only causes you to lose more sleep worrying about the sleep you’re already not getting), the Mui Calm Sleep Platform will quietly adjust lighting without shoving metrics in your face. It will also lead you through presleep stretching routines to help you ease into bedtime. It will supposedly even be able to detect when you’re tired and stressed based on the sound of your voice and try to coax you into getting some extra rest.
As a bonus, add-on mmWave sensors will enable the Mui Board Gen 2 to be controlled using gestures from across the room. So you could, perhaps, simply wave an alarm away. Support for mmWave sleep tracking and gesture control will roll out later this year, though no word yet on when exactly.
