LivingKiosk

Ambient displays for the screens you’re not using.

Full-screen channels that refresh themselves and are built to be glanced at, not operated. Put one on a wall tablet, a spare monitor, a TV in the corner, or straight onto your Mac desktop.

See the displays →Put one on a screen

Displays

One channel per screen. Leave it running.

Every display is just a URL. Open it, make it full screen, and forget about it — it keeps itself current.

Heartbeat 3000 current conditions panel: a large heart rate readout in phosphor green with an intraday trace, steps, active energy, exercise and stand hours.

Heartbeat 3000 subject scan panel: a rotating wireframe figure with bracketed callouts to each body region.

01Live

Heartbeat 3000

Your vitals as a late-night broadcast. Apple Watch data rendered as a mid-80s scope terminal — heart rate, sleep, and a wireframe body scan on a slow rotation.

Apple Watch4 panelsSelf-hosted

Live demo →Details

02Coming soon

Weather

The next few days, read from across the room.

03Coming soon

House

Doors, temperature, power, and what the house is doing right now.

04Coming soon

Markets

A slow tape for the things you actually hold.

Put it on a screen

Three ways to leave one up.

Pick whichever screen is already sitting idle. None of this needs an app store account or an install on the display itself — a browser is enough.

Mac desktop

via Plash

Install Plash from the Mac App Store — it renders any web page as your desktop wallpaper.
Menu bar icon → Open URL… and paste the display’s address.
Leave Browsing Mode off so clicks pass through to your desktop as normal.
Plash reloads on wake, so it recovers on its own after sleep.

sindresorhus.com/plash →

Wall tablet

via Fully Kiosk

On any Android tablet, install Fully Kiosk Browser.
Settings → Web Content → Start URL: the display’s address.
Under Device Management, keep the screen on and set a dim schedule so it isn’t glaring at 3am.
Turn on Start on Boot so a power blip brings the display back by itself.

fully-kiosk.com →

Any other screen

plain browser

Open the display in whatever browser the screen already has.
Go full screen: F11 on Windows and Linux, ⌃⌘F on macOS.
Or start the browser dedicated: chrome --kiosk <url>.
Turn off display sleep in the machine’s power settings and walk away.

Displays are ordinary web pages, so anything that can hold one open works: a Raspberry Pi on a monitor, a retired iPad, a Fire tablet, the browser built into a TV.