This is an updated 2013 version Of Muji’s wall-mounted CD-player designed by Naoto Fukasawa. It is manufactured by Muji, a Japan-based international retailer of Japanese-designed products which launched in 1980. They are noted for their simplicity of design and their philosophy of creating unbranded objects with a high-quality aesthetic. They have also voiced concern for the environment, and have worked to be sustainable by exercising restraint in the design and manufacturing process, reducing excessive packaging, and using recyclable materials wherever possible.

While designing the original wall-mounted CD-Player in 1999, Fukasawa noted the resemblance between a CD spinning in a player and the rotating blades of a domestic extractor fan. In his design, he sought to incorporate the intrinsic simplicity of the extractor's operating controls, which is a simple pull-cord to switch the unit on and off. The resulting CD-player is a coverless wall-mounted unit that resembles a kitchen or bathroom extractor with a power cord that drops down from underside of the unit. Most importantly, the cord invites the user intuitively to pull it, triggering the device to begin playing the CD. The speakers are contained within the unit, and the volume and search controls are found on top of the player.

Fukasawa has stated that he wants to design objects that will trigger an instinctive or unconscious response in their user. He calls his design philosophy 'without thought', arguing that products should not need an instruction manual, but that their functionality should be self-evident. As Fukasawa states, 'without thought' “means being aware of our living nature, a simple element in the larger environment... not anonymous, just natural”.

This updated version of the CD-Player has been re-designed so that it works as an FM radio as well as a CD-Player and can be controlled alternatively by a remote or the original tugging feature of the cord.
This CD-player was acquired as part of the Shekou Project, an international partnership between the V&A and China Merchant Shekou Holdings (CMSK) to open a new cultural platform called Design Society in Shekou. The CD-player was included in the inaugural exhibition, ‘Values of Design’, in the V&A Gallery at Design Society to exemplify how an object can communicate its own use and functionality through its own design.