Further Individual Thoughts

These photographs are quite exciting in terms of smaller elements being brought together to form a larger whole entity.  

I think it would be great if we could do something like this, create a way in which the individual devices could be joined together in a seamless and beautiful manner. 

Taking inspiration from the images above can really work with our concept and stick with everything we have discussed and agreed on over the weeks. 

The concept of "swarm" is definitely there. Through the grouping and separation of various devices. This can concept can also be built further by the forming of smaller families and sub-groups. Through a kind of layering system using colours and levels this can be achieved.  

With these different layer and families, a progression is created. Users buy and collect more devices through time to build and up and expand their central unit. 

This can also form part of a game. Which would be good to link back to our earlier concepts and thoughts. 

Once a device has been triggered through the occurrence of a "coincidence" the device is then disabled. Over time, as more and more devices are activated through the coincidence and then disabled, they are able to be put together to form the central product. This game enable the two users to play as a team, in order to build up their products. It wouldn't be like a game that the two people set out to play everyday. But more something at the back of their minds. They live life normally as they would do anyway, but when a coincidence occurs it is a nice surprise and gives the users a moment of shared joy, enabling them to build up their sculpture "together". The progression of gradually building up the form would be an exciting journey for the two people to share. As more and more devices and used, the more specific the coincidence becomes, making the occurrence much harder and less chance of actually happening. This would make the system very long lived. 

While the initial excitements of sitting on the couch and opening the fridge at the same time would provide a thrill early on after the products introduction to the home, much later down the track as teh coincidences' have become almost impossible to trigger, out of the blue when the games is nearly forgotten, a device will finally be triggered. This will be a pleasant shock to both the suers and remind them of each other in a playful way. 

Having this form that the individual devices form would solve one of the problems we had as a team, which was that we had nothing to really design. 

Each component would be a particular shape and colour and somehow the pieces would be able to connect to join and become part of the overall product. As planned, inside the components would be LED's, vibrators, speakers, heating elements etc. 

When connected the pieces would interact with each other in some way. I will have to think about that some more though.