Relational Pillow

Pillows, the type which are used for decoration, to soften up our homes, come in zillions of shapes, designs and styles to express personality, mood, dreams – every and any emotions we would possibly have.
MIT’s Ambient Intelligence Group members Sajid Sadi and Pattie Maes in collaboration with Amir Mikhak created the Relational Pillow which is [...]

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Hugs send from my pillow

Fitting pillows with technology goes back to 2001 as far as I could find out when Annie Lovejoy made an ‘exploration of emergent and redundant technologies, the proliferation of components / hardware and data which is intricately embroidered in a tapestry of systems’ resulting in the first interactive pillow concept.
Since then we have seen pillows [...]

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The pillow story of Pling Plong

We had our share on interactive pillow coverage like illuminated pillows or sound pillows but the Pling Plong pillow created by Silje Softing sticks out by it’s playful use of ’soft’ low tech to give an twist to the story telling for small children.
The pillow itself tells the bedtime story ‘relieving’ you when absolutely needed [...]

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