Social Mobiles by IDEO with Crispin Jones
Social Mobiles by IDEO with Crispin Jones
Various designs that address the social impact of mobile phones in playful ways. While working with IDEO, Crispin Jones created 5 mobiles phones that change the users’ behavior to make it less disruptive. For example, one phone induces a shock depending on how loudly the person at the other end is talking. As a result this forces the people to speak more quietly.
Keep reading for more inspiring projects related to networked objects, personal informatics and tangible user interfaces.
Corporate Fallout Detector by James Pattern
Corporate Fallout Detector by James Pattern
The Corporate Fallout Detector is a reconfigured Geiger Counter that scans the bar-codes from consumer products and gives auditory feedback (a clicking sound) based on the environmental record of the manufacturer.
Buttons by Sascha Pohflepp
Buttons by Sascha Pohflepp
Buttons is a networked object in the form of a “blind camera” with no optics. When the button is pressed, the moment is captured by searching the internet for a photo that has been taken at the same time. The photo is downloaded and displayed on the back of the camera.
Fluidtime Objects - Restless Shoes by Crispin Jones
Restless Shoes is part of the Fluidtime Objects project that was conducted at Interaction Design Institute Ivrea and concerned itself with the delivery of time specific information. Restless Shoes was a shoe rack that would make noise with your shoes to indicate how close your bus was. Different pairs of shoes could be used to represent different bus lines.
Nuage Vert in Helsinki
Nauge Vert by HeHe
Nauge Vert by HeHe is a visual representation of the amount of electricity being consumed by local residents in Helsinki, Finland. The visual takes the form of a laser which traces a could of smoke above the Salmisaari power plant in Helsinki.
Nike + iPod
Nike + iPod
One of the most discussed commercial projects, these networked shoes can communicate with your iPod to give you information about your workout.
Wattson by DIY Kyoto
Wattson by DIY Kyoto
The Wattson is a new kind of home appliance that is networked to a sensor attached to your home’s meter box. Using colors and numbers, the Wattson displays your energy consumption and stores it in an online database making it easy for you to manage your electricity usage and save money.
Ambient Orb
Ambient Orb
One item from a line of similar products by Ambient, the Ambient Orb is a “glass lamp that uses color to show weather forecasts, trends in the market, or the traffic on your homeward commute.”
The Key Table
The Key Table
The Key Table is a networked table and wall-mounted picture frame. The table’s embedded sensors read the impact with which things are set on it (i.e. keys). Like the amount a door is slammed, this is taken as a measure of the persons mental state. The picture frame on the wall is then tilted accordingly so that other inhabitants may use it as a visual indicator.
Greenwich Emotion Map
Greenwich Emotion Map by Christian Nold
A commercial manifestation of the Bio Mapping project, the Greenwich Emotion Map was created by recording people’s emotions (through galvanic skin sensors) and location (through GPS) as they walked around the town of Greenwich. The resulting maps “encourage personal reflection on the complex relationship between oneself, the environment and ones fellow citizens. In a group, people then commented about their experiences and left annotations on the map.”
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