bear with me

Amazing present from Jie, all the way from Korea… as I am looking at the smoothing of devices, and the mediated usage of technology through… teddy bears or fluffy animals :) (And all the reasoning behind). Remember the talking bear video clip? You have to press the ear to transfer the call…

The i-pulse (for playing i-pod tunes) is certainly not as fluffy… and doesn’t trigger as well our sense of touch. But check this cute Cellular Squirrel designed by Stephan Marti from the MIT Media Lab Speech Interface Group. Looking for “un peu de douceur dans ce monde de brute”!

Which means that spatially, we are seeking more than generic places to live in… a retreat… Note that since it is made in Korea, it is intended for Samsung cell phones (bye bye my Nokia?!), which says so much about territoriality and technology. We are not so global after all ;)