Once in a while, an ingenius doodad comes along that makes me question how I’ve managed to live this long without said ingenius dad of the doo. This isn’t one of them.
Our interactions with personal electronic devices provoke a broad range of emotional states from frustration to confusion to feverish obsession. Increasingly, these devices mediate our everyday work activities, our social network development and our personal communications. In this paper, we propose a participatory installation that aims to bring critical awareness and consideration to the complex relationship between people and their technological artifacts. These ‘Body-Technology Interfaces,’ (BTIs) in the form of hand-knitted custom wrappers for personal electronic devices, will reflect salient interaction behaviors between the participant and their chosen device.
I totally skimmed over that but i was able to gather something about feverish saline paper wrappers. I’ll take two. No, three!
But, upon further inspection of the pictures, I’ll have to retract my request and would like to put in a new one to administer a school yard beating to the product model. No, really, I need to do this.
If that proves to be a tad too extravagant for you, you could always bring it down a few notches and spring for the hand warmers. A must-have for the season.
No? How about a desk diaper? They’re apparently making a comeback.
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April 17th, 2008 at 6:46 pm
Wow. I don’t know. I think if I ever saw anyone with something like that on their head, I would be more that obligated to beat them senseless.
April 17th, 2008 at 8:22 pm
Ditto on the beating… that woman just deserves it. I can imagine her sitting in StarBucks with that thing on her head. What a dumbass.
April 17th, 2008 at 8:31 pm
The thing I love most about these are that they’re stylish, warm and functional. Also, No desk is complete unless it has a diaper on it.
April 18th, 2008 at 2:50 pm
Sorry, I still am waiting for the day I get to wear one of those keyboard thingies on my left arm and the LCD glasses on my face so I may be computing while walking down to my local Starbucks.
The sooner we can get on to becoming part cyborgs, the better!
=P
April 18th, 2008 at 6:38 pm
Holy Cow!!
… I’d probably point and laugh… kinda like I’m doing right this very minute!!!