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SORRY BOX
DESIGN FOR
THE INTERNET OF THINGS
SORRY BOX
The Sorry Box is a pair of IoT devices which can help you show apologies by sending your loved one a message of "I'm sorry" through a gesture that can be receive on their end. Simply place your preferred object (candy, maybe sea shells because you and your loved one collect those, etc.) into their side of the box. The box will thing be triggered on their end to pop open and have the object appear. The loved one then can reciprocate the message by saying "I'm sorry" back by doing the same gesture with their box.
Check the video below to know how SORRY BOX works:
Bill of Materials
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2 Particle Photons
2 Ultra Sonic Sensors
2 Breadboards
11 Wires
2 Servo Motor
Box Material (paper mache, chipboard, and paint)
BLACK MIRROR
Internet of things is a segment that has been growing wide and large in the recent years. These devices has access to our daily private choices and information like the duration we sleep, the time we wake up, the type of coffee we like, surveillance record through camera, our preferences etc. IoT devices like Amazon Echo has the capability to remain an enchanted object and learn our behavior, our choices, our preferences our everything. The most dangerous fact is that all these IoT devices are also connected to the internet through WiFi without any serious encryption of data. All the private information is available for hacking and could be used against the good of humanity.
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In the near future, every family would have a smart mirror. They can interact with us through audio detection technology call tell us any basic information we need everyday as it is connected to the internet and most importantly, it can read our gestures and co relate it to our emotion at any point of time. It used advanced machine learning to understand the user behavioral pattern. The danger is when the information that the mirror has is available to others to understand/predict the behavior of the user. The mirror is hacked by the crime control forces to predict criminal mentalities/behavior so that the crime can be stopped even before it has happened. Also the Mirror used artificial intelligence to comply more to the crime control's order rather than protecting the owner who owns it.
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Black Mirror is a short movie which tells a story about the dark side of Internet of Things.
Check the video below to know the darkness of Smart Mirror:
trEI
Ambient objects aim to make data glanceable. They connect us to complex information like weather and traffic in an extremely accessible format. They don’t intrude like our phones which buzz and whirr to demand attention, instead they subtly nudge us to act when we happen to glance in their direction. They are calm and they distill information from the broader world into the minimum we need to know in order to act.
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trEI is an ambient IoT product based on Particle which acts as a notification of what types of news have been published on users' daily news subscriptions. It can timely notify user what type of news has just been published and convey certain emotion to user by using different colors of light and various intensity of rotating.
Check the video below to know how trEI works:
