Connectors
Thinking about connectors, my first thought was to make a device that connects people who don't know each other but are in close physical proximity to each other (say, you're walking down the street and want to initiate a conversation with a stranger). I decided that a pretty good way to do that would be to use humor. So my connector is this slightly silly device which you can carry with you and when you want you can unfold it and use it to poke, or point at whoever you want to talk to. They are sure to respond one way or another.
I then thought that this idea might be too foolish, so I decided to work on a different idea of mine. I want to make a connector that can connect two people that already have a connection but are far away from each other. I want it to be a more intimate, subtle interaction that a phone conversation or a text message would be. Because I think that getting a text message that just says "hi! how are you?" can be somewhat annoying, but at times you don't really have much more to say to someone, but you want them to know that you are thinking about them. I want this "message" to have some kind of physical manifestation, such as a gentle vibration. I know this idea isn't totally original; cutecircuit's hug jacket is pretty similar (but it seems like the action of sending a hug would take too many steps. I want my device to have a very straightforward, subtle interaction.), also my idea is very much inspired by Jack Godfrey Wood's allmyfriends idea for a concept phone. I wonder if anyone has made anything like what I am thinking about making.
For the time being I made a simple LED-bracelet made with conductive thread, an LED, and a key-identifier battery holder attached to the conductive thread by a snap button.
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