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Let the countdown begin! From September 7th to the 10th many of us here at Rest Devices will be at one of the largest, if not the largest, juvenile product shows in the US. That's right: for the 3rd year in a row we will be at the ABC Kids Expo, and this year it takes place in Las Vegas.

From creating brochures and fun swag for booth visitors to choosing the right colors for our booth wall, we've been working night and day to make sure ABC Kids is a success.

Coming to ABC Kids? We'd love to see you! We'll be showing off not only our Mimo Baby Monitor but what else we at Rest Devices have coming to market in the near future. Plus there will be chances to win prizes. We'll be at booth #4929—we hope to see you there!

If you can't make it, we'll be tweeting about the event (#ABCKids14) and will follow up with a post-event story.

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company Our Team Goes to 11

Over the last few months, we’ve made a lot of progress at Mimo, from our team to the product to our vision. Our team has grown from 5 to 11 people, and we are so thrilled about everyone who has joined the crew (you’ll get a separate post introducing everyone, so stay tuned). Our growth has allowed us to move faster and better—we’ve gained expertise, sheer talent, and energy, and all of this is leading to significant updates to Mimo.

Because of this, we’re accelerating progress, and I’m excited to share some updates we have coming in September. The first big one is to our app. We’ve been doing a complete redesign of the user interface to make it far more user-friendly, useful, and relevant. This change is most notable in the onboarding process, i.e. how you get your Mimo system set up. We’ve gotten excellent feedback from parents (thank you to everyone who has been in touch with us for the last year!), and we’ve completely changed the design so it’s simpler and also more informative, especially if you have a funky router setup or password.

Following this

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community My Life as a Mimo Dad

On February 9th 2013, I quit my job at Google, where I had worked for nine years. On June 21 2013, my daughter Sadie was born, and my life began.

Like many new parents, welcoming a baby into the world was a spectacularly fascinatingly beautifully scary and life-affirming experience. Everything shifts into perspective. Then it shifts again. Then things fall out of focus when it’s 3am and you awake, not cognizant of ever falling asleep in the first place, on a cold hardwood floor lying next to a Moses basket with your hand numb from trying to hold a pacifier in the mouth of your little one.

As my wife and I navigated the complexity and simplicity of those first few months, we found ourselves seeking certain elements of structure. We started tracking everything. When did we put her to sleep? How long did she sleep for? Where did she sleep? Did she eat from the left or right breast, and for how long? When did we bottle feed and how did she sleep afterwards? We chased patterns and trends. We found one or two, but the tools we were using (iPhone and Android apps, Google docs, and notebooks

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company Mimo's Interns: The Top Ten

Every summer, interns descend on our office to tackle a range of product development and marketing projects. In the process, they also collectively add a layer of energy that is hilarious, entertaining, and invigorating. Here is our top 10 list of what we loved about this summer’s crew:

Team#Hashtag, also known as the posse of engineering interns that decided they were going to transform our Instagram account (who says coders can’t be marketers???).
Their love of turning birthday celebrations into epic Mexican-themed fiestas.
The launch of Rest’s Classic Animated GIF Collection, wherein they created GIFs of everyone and...everything.
The invention of Coding While Wearing Helmets, wherein people wear bike and motorcycle helmets throughout the day while they crank out new firmware or app test code.
Their extreme surveillance and diligent mapping of all food trucks within a 1-mile radius of our office.
Extreme Big Wheeling (see: Tour de Franziaaaaaaa).
Their fascination with all things demolition and renovation: we built out our basement space downstairs, and half the team volunteered to come in on weekends to knock down walls, paint, and add flooring. We’ve never seen people so stoked to use sledgehammers.
Our anti-smoking lobbyists

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Mimo is now available on Amazon!

Today we are proud to announce that we are now sold at Amazon! This summer has been filled with a ton of awesomeness (app updates, new hires, a ragtag crew of interns, and of course new retail launches), and we're psyched that becoming a partner of Amazon.com is on that list.

Both Mimo Baby Monitor starter and refill kits are available—just head on over to amazon.com and search for Mimo. And as always, don't hesitate to let us know how we're doing by writing a review of your experience as a Mimo parent.

Yeehaw!

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Life at Rest The Tour de Franzia

What's the Tour de Franzia you ask? Great question!

The Tour de Franzia is our take on the Tour de France. Only it involves a competition between Boston-based start-ups, bigwheels, and a whole lot of Franzia boxed wine.

The Details:
Teams of 4 choose a vehicle that is recommended for kids 12 and under. This could be anything from a children’s bicycle to a stroller (yep, a stroller). The Magic Beans team rocked it in a baby stroller.

After drinking some delicious Franzia, 1 team member sprints to the beginning of the relay, hops on their vehicle, and navigates a course of rain (a makeshift outdoor shower), hills (makeshift ramps), and offroad (gravel and potholes) in the alley behind the Rest Devices office.

The teams with the top 3 times then compete one final time for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place.

How It All Went:
We were very excited to have team members from our neighbors Ministry of Supply, our retail partner Magic Beans, The Baby Guy Jamie Grayson, Dragon Innovation (as judges) and tech startup Bolt join us for our first annual event. Rest was represented by three teams, including Team#BestOfRest, our intern crew. And who won

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