ECHO/01 sculptural ambient intelligence object on a stone plinth

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Room lightWarm

Ambient intelligence / first edition

Less screen.More sense.

ECHO/01 is a quiet intelligence for the home—present when invited, invisible when it is not.

Six-mic spatial arrayLocal by defaultZero visual notificationsTwenty-four hour calmSix-mic spatial arrayLocal by defaultZero visual notificationsTwenty-four hour calm

01 / Premise

01 — Listen

Signal 01 / Restraint

Technology should know when not to speak.

ECHO begins with a refusal: no glowing rectangle, no feed, no new reason to look away from the room.

Signal 02 / Context

It senses the room—never the person.

Shape, rhythm and tone become useful context. Identity never enters the system, and raw signals disappear in milliseconds.

Signal 03 / Absence

Then it gives your attention back.

A response arrives in 0.8 seconds. The aperture closes, the amber seam cools, and the interface leaves with the request.

0.8 sAverage response onset.
No wake screen. No dashboard.

ECHO/01 in a rain-lit brutalist living room

02 / A day with ECHO

CHAPTER01

06:42 / Arrive

The room wakes first.

Before a command is spoken, ECHO softens the light, holds the temperature and leaves the morning quiet.

13:18 / Understand

Context, not surveillance.

It understands that “turn it down” means the music—not the lights—without building an identity profile.

23:06 / Recede

Then it disappears.

At rest, the acoustic path closes mechanically and the amber seam goes dark. Presence becomes absence.

Overhead morning study of ECHO/01 on pale ash wood

ECHO/01 in a graphic terracotta midday alcove

ECHO/01 receding into an indigo room at night

A film measured in room tone

03 / Quiet hours

06:42

Morning / Anticipate

Light before language.

The room is tuned before it is asked. Warmth arrives as a condition, never a notification.

Midday / Attend

Focus has a shape.

ECHO holds the edges of your attention—lowering noise, pacing the room and keeping itself out of sight.

Night / Withdraw

Silence is a feature.

The aperture closes, the seam cools, and intelligence returns the room to the people inside it.

03 / How it thinks

A room-scale nervous system.

ECHO reads the shape, rhythm and tone of a space—not the identity of the people inside it. Its intelligence begins and ends at your walls.

A.01

Spatial hearing

Six directional microphones isolate the voice that matters while letting the rest of the room remain a room.

A.02

Local understanding

Daily language, routines and automations are processed on-device. The cloud is optional, visible and off by default.

A.03

Ambient expression

A single line of warm light communicates acknowledgement, thinking and rest. It never asks to be watched.

A.04

Material memory

A ceramic shell, recycled aluminum core and repairable acoustic layer are made to age with the spaces they inhabit.

Live fieldLatency
0.8 msMove your pointer
through the signalLocal process
Encrypted

04 / Spatial signal

You can almost see the quiet.

Every line is generated live. No video, no heavy shader—just a room listening to its own shape.

05 / Spatial memory

A room with depth.

Scroll through the invisible layers ECHO uses to understand space. Each plane is local, temporary and designed to dissolve.

Z + 01 / Geometry

Edges become context.

Reflections reveal distance and orientation without creating a camera image.

Z + 02 / Rhythm

Motion without identity.

Patterns exist for milliseconds—long enough to understand, never long enough to profile.

Z + 03 / Intent

The useful layer remains.

A simple signal survives: occupied, calm, asking, done.

Close view of ECHO/01 ceramic shell and amber light seam

05 / Presence engine

Set the room's frequency.

Choose how much presence you want. ECHO changes its voice, response speed and light—not its personality.

HUSH18 dB / 2700 K

06 / Object laboratory

Built to be
opened.

Drag through the material system. Every layer is accessible, replaceable and designed for a decade—not a launch cycle.

Layer 01Acoustic

Directional mesh.

A tensioned mono-material weave separates voices from the noise around them without recording the room.

Layer 02Compute

Private at the core.

Two isolated processors keep language and automation on-device. Physical disconnects are visible from the outside.

Layer 03Material

Four honest materials.

Ceramic, recycled aluminum, woven PET and a natural rubber foot. No glue. Six fasteners.

Layer 04Lifetime

10Y

Made for the long now.

Core modules upgrade independently. The shell stays with you; the intelligence can change.

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08 / A three-word interface

Voice / Gesture / Absence

ASK

SENSE

RECEDE

No menus to learn. The entire interface is a natural arc from intention to understanding to quiet.

01 / 03

07 / States

Three ways
to be there.

Not an app store. Not a list of skills. Just three legible states for the moments a home actually has.

01 / LISTEN

Near

For questions, cooking, planning and the soft logistics of an ordinary day.

02 / FOCUS

With

For shared work, deep listening and keeping a room in a single rhythm.

03 / VANISH

Away

Microphones close. Light disappears. The object becomes only an object again.

08 / Measured restraintProduction intent / Rev C

Far-field listening radius

A six-microphone array hears a conversational voice without raising the room. Beamforming stays on-device.

Response onset

0ms

Fast enough to feel present, slow enough to feel considered.

Idle power

0.4w

Below a night light, including local awareness.

Cloud dependency

Core voice, routines and controls continue offline.

Replaceable mass

Designed for disassembly with common tools.

A quieter machine.

A more human room.

“The best interface is often not another surface. It is a sense of being understood.”

ECHO/01 was designed around absence: no feed, no badges, no bright glass. Just a private intelligence with the confidence to recede.

Series 01 / 600 unitsAutumn 2026

Make room.Not noise.

Request early access to ECHO/01.
Founding edition from CAD $840.

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