#6 Hand Holders
Thick fingerless gloves with memory foam padded palms for sincere but less intimate hand holding.
#14 Enhanced haptic feedback loop of touch
Creates haptic feedback when you touch another person. enabling you to experience the way in which you physically interact with another. Allowing you to understand the strength, and possible perceived intention of your touch, allowing you to not only obtain more physical sensation through your own touch but also, rethink possible unwarranted physical interactions.
#19 Self Care Fitness Tracker
For saying yes to yourself Is self care a hard thing to manage? do you get bogged down in responsibility? Get this and get rewarded for saying yes to yourself. Recite an affirmation, get a $5 starbucks gift card!
#21 Human Dots
Two torcs that track the position of multiple other people wearing them on small vibrotactile 180 degree displays. Both vertical and horizontal position is tracked. Letting you know if someone is above, below or in which direction. But not being able to know who. Possibly learning to discern by recalling patterns of movement.
#26 Arm-e Talk-e
A gauntlet that acts as a receiver and transmitter of IR signals. Allowing the user to send their hand gestures to another person who wears the same device. As this is IR they have to be within view of each other (or at least the gauntlets do.) The upper arm portion consists of motors that constrain five evenly spaced rings. These act as feedback for what the other's fingers are doing. Allowing for fast (with practice) silent local communication.
Prototype#30 Net-meter
Instead of connecting directly to WiFi this device lets you see your own network traffic. The device connects to the network, while you connect to it. It shows incoming and outgoing connections and data volumes. The visualization is accomplished via led lighting.
#53 Mood Projector
A pair of cuffs that are worn by two different people which will transform based on the others current mood.
Prototype#56 Secret Handshake Validator
Lights up green if you did it right! (Electrocutes you if you didn’t?)
Prototype#59 Quantifier
A device that remembers proportions and aspects of objects held or grasped. Allows for ‘playback’ of this data. “The fish was *Actually* this long!”
#60 Tactile
Gloves that amplify the feeling of surface qualities to be more intense (not in a linear way, more internally noticeable (hot doesn’t go to burning etc)) A way to make more tactile and memorable physical interactions between people.
#62 Stripables
Garments that have removable or additional parts that can be shared with those that need them. (For extra warmth etc.)
#64 Puppet Puppet
A pair of arm covering garments that mirror each other's movement. (One has to relax or struggle to take over)
#69 Interactions/Environmental Control Panel
A wrist-based device used to control your availability for social interactions as well as your engagement with your environment. These input values are gathered using a microcontroller and transmitted by Bluetooth Low Energy to a neural guidance device that is yet to be developed.
Prototype#81 Free Time
glanceable data as to whether 5 close people in your life are available, soon to be, busy or available for a short time. 5 LED use colors to convey availability, brightness of the LED equates to proximity.
#99 Enthusiasm Filter
Set the enthusiasm level and receive a shock every time the device feels you’ve surpassed it.
#103 Name Tagged
RFID enabled name tagging for those that are horrible at remembering names. just casually swipe your phone next to the chip and receive the other user’s name on your screen. Beats asking awkwardly what their name is because you don’t remember.
#120 Lockable
3D printing pauldrons that make interconnecting shapes. They will make unique shapes only when two are together, and these shapes won't interconnect with anyone else.
