Message from the developer


Masato Fujino,
Industrial designer and engineer,
President/Developer of Fairy Devices Inc.


Thank you for taking the time to read. My name is Masato Fujino, the developer of STELLARWINDOW.

STELLARWINDOW consists of a sensor and software. The sensor was developed in collaboration with affiliated companies while I solely developed the software. The development period was approximately one year.

STELLARWINDOW is the first product produced by Fairy Devices Inc. Please allow me tell you briefly about our motivation to develop STELLARWINDOW and our thoughts on this product.

Before establishing Fairy Devices Inc., I was a medical school post graduate student aiming to become a researcher of medicine.

During the course of my study, I came to know a little girl in the university hospital where I was working as an intern. The girl, who had been hospitalized for a long time, kept a little teddy bear by her pillow.

Although the teddy bear had a name, I am unable to remember it at this distance in time. However, I can still remember that the girl always took the teddy bear with her wherever she went within the hospital and that she told me she did not feel lonely because her teddy bear was with her all the time.

I was not able to speak to her often during the brief period of my internship and the day of her operation came along. We interns observed the operation. The size of the operating room was similar to that of a high school classroom. A forest of various machinery covered the walls while another set of machines surrounded the girl lying on the operating table. Although I was unable to tell what kind of medical equipment they were, she looked as though she had been buried within those numerous machines.

In the middle of those machines where she was lying on the mobile operating table, her teddy bear was placed by her pillow in the very same way it was placed in her hospital room.

This really moved me.

There is no doubt that those latest medical machines surrounding the girl were necessary and precious equipment to keep her alive.

And, at the same time, her teddy bear sitting beside her was also incredibly precious for her to continue to live. These completely different two factors, the machinery and the teddy bear, formed a connection with each other through the girl to help her in their own ways. It might only have been me thinking about this but, next to the reliable surgeons, I found the small stuffed bear so very greatly dear to me. I know this is impossible but, to me, the teddy bear even looked to be glowing.

Before I met the girl, my central focus in my studies was to discover what illnesses were and what we could do to help people with illnesses. I focused on what we could do to prevent 'death' by learning about the mechanisms of illnesses, drugs and the human body. On the contrary, and I realize this may sound a bit exaggerated, but I believe that the teddy bear showed me a way to 'live.' To take a different view of this, what I truly felt during the girl’s operation was that the ways to 'live' and 'die' may be the two sides of the same coin. Again, this may sound a bit exaggerated in written language but this is what naturally came to my mind at the time.

I felt I needed to create something precious like the little girl's teddy bear and that was my motivation to establish my company and that was the reason why I named my company 'Fairy Devices'(devices that are in fairy-tale stories). After I decided not to complete my medical studies, I independently set up Fairy Devices Inc., an electric-appliance maker, with absolutely nothing at hand: no money, no personal connections, no equipment and no experience. Well, to be honest, the situation has not really changed.

One afternoon before the operation, the girl pointed at the square-cut sky through her hospital room window and asked me,

"What's that star?"

In an attempt to reply to her and thinking back to the vague knowledge I had gained from reading books in the past, I tried to remember what I knew about stars. I am not able to remember exactly what I said to her or even if I could give her a proper reply. All I remember is that I tried my best and told her everything I knew about stars so as not to disappoint her. We talked about stars a few more times after that.

Other children like her in the hospital, forced to stay there over a long period of time, were unable to go out without restrictions. Even if they were allowed to, they could only go for a walk during the daytime. They could not look up at the whole of the starry night sky. All they could see was the small square-cut night sky through their hospital room windows.

Even though they were bound to their small hospital rooms, I needed to somehow let them feel the broadness of the world, to give them hope that one day they would again be able to join the ever-expanding outside world and to let them know that countless stars are up in the sky beyond the walls and the ceiling of their rooms......


This is how STELLARWINDOW was born.

I have no intention to go into the details of all the twists and turns I faced during the development of this product in Japan. What I would like to briefly mention is that, from the time of establishing the company as a student, there were a series of unimaginable difficulties starting with borrowing money, seeking overseas institutions to make license agreements, performing product design, development and mass production and carrying an inventory up to arranging settlement methods in order to release STELLARWINDOW as a product.

I would like to sincerely apologize for this messy and long message. Thank you for taking the time to read this through.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, I would like to express my gratitude to my friends who supported me during my struggling days and still continue to support me in a number of ways. All of you are so precious to me and I would not have been able to release this product if any of you had not been there. Thank you so much.

I would also like to express my appreciation to our affiliated companies that have been assisting and supporting us. In all aspects, it has been and still is extremely difficult to enter this established industry in Japan. Without your support, it would not be possible for us to try to climb over such a huge wall. I would like to thank you for your support.

Lastly, I would like to express my greatest gratitude to those of you who have purchased STELLARWINDOW. We believe that StellaWindow expresses all of our thoughts. We sincerely hope that you will find that the product is of greater worth and that you will enjoy using the product for many years to come.

Thank you all so very much.