The Blog
MindUnwired is the global, free-to-join movement. Like-minded life-changers with a single goal. To halve smartphone usage for themselves, and for those that matter to them – for good.
Featured
MindUnwired is the global, free-to-join movement. Like-minded life-changers with a single goal. To halve smartphone usage for themselves, and for those that matter to them – for good.
Here's a Guest Fieldnote from Camilla, friend of Sari, MindUnwired and Piilo, exploring and thinking about how we learn best.
Parenting Author, Speaker, Broadcaster & Mum Sue Atkins gives useful tips, advice and scripts for parents of juniors and younger teens on smartphone ownership.
Ah yes. The irony has not passed us by! The answer, for us, is that not all screen time is bad.
Pupils at a West Midlands school are taking part in an initiative to help reduce their screen usage in return for no homework.
Early in 2025, brilliant Interior Designer Kristine Böök-Paananen connected Piilo and Sari (Piilo Founder) to Pier 4 hotel in Katajanokka, Finland.
Piilo was originally designed to house any one phone on the market. However, Piilo has evolved to…
It (ironically) makes us smile to read that, for the seventh year on the run, Finland - (home of Piilo - Where Your Phone Sleeps!) has been voted the world's happiest country.
Conspicuously Beautiful means that Piilo's design whispers, it doesn't shout. Find out why this is important.
Very recently (April 2025), a nice chap called Richard from Swiftfilms reached the end of this tether with his mobile phone.
Let kids be kids a little longer. The Wait Until 8th pledge empowers parents to rally together to delay giving children a smartphone until 8th grade (13-14 years old).
For Piilo 1.0, the price per unit varied. Sometimes under 100 Euros. Sometimes over. This is because we were introducing the world to the flagship product of the MindUnwired Community.
Piilo is designed to be a constant visual reminder, for you and yours, whether at home or at work, to reduce screen time. It whispers to you. It is Conspicuously Beautiful, as we say.
One of the best ways to calm your mood is to reduce your screen time. Think clearer. Breathe slower. Breathe deeper. Worry less. Prioritise better. And relax in the space created.
A short article published by UKAT in April 2025 about screen time and kids mental health.
Great things to do in the space you create when you do reduce your screen time. Try a 10 minute workout!
The National recommendations in Finland for the use of smartphones for children, adolescents and parents/caregivers.
We're proud of both Piilo 1.0 and Piilo 2.0. The second is a sophisticated, subtle evolution of the first.
As we move through 2025, this part of our newsletter and website blog will contain real world stories about MindUnwired Community Members.