Maria Paula Saba
Heart Pillow
Heart Pillow is a cyborg-like transhuman structure that reproduces a person's heartbeat remotely, allowing the very pulse of life to be transferred into an object - in this case, a pillow.
http://itp.nyu.edu/~msd403/blog/?p=587
Classes
Introduction to Physical Computing
Introduction to Physical Computing
Heart Pillow is a cyborg-like transhuman structure that is primarily composed of 2 parts: a polar heart strap that works as a sensing device to read heartbeats and a pillow equipped with a polar signal receiver and a vibration motor that reproduces heartbeats remotely, in real time and wirelessly.
Heart Pillow is a user experience and affective design research piece as well as an attempt to a post-optimal object in material culture. It is intended to be used in any situations in which transferring a heartbeat into an everyday object can have an emotionally soothing effect or generate questions on the self.
Heart Pillow is a user experience and affective design research piece as well as an attempt to a post-optimal object in material culture. It is intended to be used in any situations in which transferring a heartbeat into an everyday object can have an emotionally soothing effect or generate questions on the self.