Initial Product Concept

The Product

Embedded technology that shares emotion and experience through biometrics, below or on the surface of your skin. Right of passage creating a channel for more intimate connections - and the literacy of navigating the connections. The technology creates a safe space for learning/exploring/expressing emotional intimacy from a basic literacy of establishing connections to a sophisticated level of renegotiating boundaries and connecting to share raw sensory information with another.

 

  • Embedded technology that shares emotion and experience through biometrics, below or on the surface of your skin.

    • below the surface of your skin or on the surface of your skin

    • tribal connections with connections to biometrics

    • stickers or sensors

  • Right of passage creating a channel for more intimate connections - and the literacy of navigating the connections.

    • this maps to the trend of teenagers/college sharing their fb password and giving/sharing of passwords/passwords are intimate data

    • "rights of passage" - schools teaching "digital literacy" - trying to prevent people from giving up their secrets too much ... is this an old paradigm - is this a crucial paradigm?

  • Embracing and Extending Intimacy

    • The technology creates a safe space for learning/exploring/expressing emotional intimacy from a basic literacy of establishing connections to a sophisticated level of renegotiating boundaries and connecting to share raw sensory information with another.

  • Use Cases

    • Intimacy with family at end of life, when not able to be physically present.

    • Intimacy as sharing vs. intimacy as revealing -

    • choosing to share vs. spontaneous (uninitiated revealing)

    • defining what feelings/emotions go to who - how to we manage this system? how do we filter what goes to whom?

    • stimulating all senses in intimacy (smell, taste, touch, hear, see)

    • Turning your bio signalling on or off

    • “go pro” your emotional experience - download in real time or post time (when someone wakes up, they get the messages from the previous night)

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