Original purpose of this 'memories' project is to design the product that enhance our creativity. Once I've read that in terms neuro-science to create is to make new associations between memories in our brain. Meanwhile we keep losing the cue to the memories every moment since significant part of our memories are in the subliminal area of our brain.
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Memories system expands the capability of your brain. This system is mainly composed of an online database and client objects. You can store every pieces of your memories like photos, sketches, cover images of the book you read etc. (you can store your images by sending e-mail with them to the database and the system automatically picks up keywords from the subject and the body to save them as well) And the client objects show some of them as a part of your environment.
This time I made the memories coffee table as a client object. This table automatically gets some images from the database and display them on the screen. The images are floating into the screen and flowing away slowly. The only way to interact them is to touch them to stop the movement for a while. But the system recognizes your action and learns the relation between the images or your favorite one. Eventually the system makes a kind of structure of your memories.
Sometimes you might find unfamiliar images because the system occasionally gets new images that supposed to related to yours from the net.
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The memories coffee table is designed to be used in relaxed situation, not to watch like TV, not to search like PC, just to feel as an part of your environment. And hopefully it could give you new inspiration by presenting chances to see the pieces of your memories you are losing without it.
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During this project, I tried to design not only the object but also the whole system. I think that designing products is not only to design its shape or appearance. In the good old days of industrial revolution, the functionality was directly connected to the appearance. But in this era of electronics and information technology, it make no sense to design only its appearance. I'm worring about that those who refer to themselves as a product designer or an industrial designer do only design the appearance. Of course I agree the importance of the shape of products. But I think we also need to design the invisible side of the products.
コメントに場違いな書き込みでごめんなさい。
テロがあったということで、心配しています。
何かコメント書いていただければ。
投稿情報: k@s | 2005-07-07 11:23 午後
ありがとうございます。ご心配をおかけしました。僕は無事です。帰国まで十分気をつけます。
投稿情報: naoya | 2005-07-08 02:42 午前