TUCK: put your phone to bed
Get your nights back. A bedside box that charges your phone out of sight and gives you the clock, alarm and reading light instead.
By Christian Adel Michael · Home · Concept
Put your phone to bed. Get your nights back.
You know the routine. You get into bed to sleep, pick up the phone to set the alarm, and forty minutes later you are still scrolling. In the morning the same screen is the first thing you see. The phone is at the bedside for good reasons: it is the alarm, the clock, the light and the charger. So it stays, and so does everything else that lives on it.
Tuck takes over those four jobs so the phone can go away.
It is a small bedside box in solid oak or walnut. Lift the lid, lay the phone on the wool-felt pad inside, close the lid. The phone charges wirelessly, out of sight and out of reach. On the outside, Tuck is everything you actually needed: the time glowing softly through a woven wool front, an alarm you set with one brass knob, and a warm amber light that is enough to read by and dims down to a night light.
There is no app, no account and no subscription. Nothing is blocked. Your phone still rings, so the calls that matter get through. It just stops being the last thing you touch at night and the first thing you touch in the morning.
How an evening goes
1. Phone in. Lid closed. It charges until morning.
2. Turn the knob for light. Read, talk, or do nothing at all.
3. Press the knob to set the alarm. Sleep.
What is planned
- Solid oak or walnut body, wool-felt lined inside, woven wool front
- Wireless charging pad inside for phones that charge wirelessly
- Clock and alarm that glow through the fabric, and dim fully at night
- Warm amber light, from reading level down to night light
- One brass knob. No app, no account, no subscription
- About 20 x 11 x 9 cm
Where it stands today
Tuck is a concept. There is no working prototype yet, and every picture on this page is an AI concept image that shows the design intent, not a photograph of a finished product. Nothing here has been tested. That is exactly why this page exists now: before money goes into tooling, we want to know whether enough people want their nights back this way.
What happens next
First a working prototype: charging that stays cool inside a closed wooden box, a ringtone you can still hear through the lid, and a clock you can read without it lighting the room. Real photographs replace the concept images as soon as it exists. You can back Tuck before then: you would be backing a concept, and that risk is yours to weigh.
Price, delivery and shipping
Planned campaign prices are EUR 139 for the first 100 backers, EUR 149 for the next 300 and EUR 159 after that, or EUR 299 for a pair. The planned retail price is EUR 199. Every price includes EU VAT and standard shipping to the 27 EU countries, so there is nothing to add later. The campaign is planned as all-or-nothing with a goal of EUR 150,000, which pays for the prototype, certification, tooling, a pilot batch and the first production run. The campaign is planned to run from 12 January to 11 February 2027. Estimated delivery is August 2028, about 18 months after it closes. These figures come from a budget, not from supplier quotes, and the date is an estimate, not a promise.
What we ask of you
Follow Tuck, and tell us the one thing that would stop you from backing it.
What we do not know yet
Which phones and cases will charge reliably through the pad. Whether the name Tuck is free to use in every market. Whether supplier quotes and certification confirm the budget behind the prices and the August 2028 estimate. When the UK, Norway and Switzerland can be added. We will say so plainly as each of these is settled.
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