An artificial skin cover for smartphones developed by Marc Teyssier and his colleagues at Telecom Paris. To wit:
Currently limited to smartphones, smartwatches, and touchpads, the prototype is responsive to a variety of gestures, including pinching, tickling, and poking, responding to different emotions: sudden, hard pressure is associated with anger, while gentle and sustained stroking is associated with providing comfort.
Oh dear.
Ann Murtagh (via John Gallen) twasks:
Help please! Anyone know what this is called? They were very common in gardens years ago
Never mind.
The ‘Grow Cable’ – a pulsating umbilical phone charger by Japanese designer Mio Izawa.
Yours for about €5,300 (incl. P+P).
The rather brilliant feline access scaffolds of Bern in Switzerland, as documented in a book by graphic designer Brigitte Schuster.
A collection of photographs by Evija Laivina featuring a range of ‘strange and unusual’ but apparently genuine beauty products.
