Soft Surveillance – Compass Phone
September 5, 2010HaYeon Yoo, the designer says:
This project addresses the issue of whether the mobile phone is a surveillance tool or a digital leash and explores designing an alternative means of communication which delivers a more poetic and aesthetic experience.
The Compass Phone does not support any verbal communication side, but has only a GPS function. It measures the distance between two people in real-time and then converts it to the time it takes for them to meet each other by either transport or time unit. A compass is hidden under the digit display. The center of the compass always indicates the user’s position and its needle indicates the other person’s direction.
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