Blog | Dana Ramler : Thoughtful Design » carpet http://www.danaramler.com/blog Sat, 06 Feb 2010 23:58:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 human antennae http://www.danaramler.com/blog/2009/11/14/human-antennae/ http://www.danaramler.com/blog/2009/11/14/human-antennae/#comments Sat, 14 Nov 2009 23:38:06 +0000 Dana Ramler http://www.danaramler.com/?p=722 ‘Human Antenna’ is a project by Swiss designer Florian Kräutli who is currently working in the Netherlands. It is another example of soft technology that I love so much!

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The lush, white carpet is interwoven with conductive thread and transforms anyone who stands and walks across the carpet into a human antenna.

The carpet picks up the radio waves which your body receives and makes them “hearable.” When walking on the carpet you can tune it to a certain frequency, similar to the tuner of a radio.

Conductive Carpet

I really love the idea of engaging with the things in our home to make them come ‘alive.’ Without the user, the carpet is silent and functions in a regular way. Walking across it completely transforms it into an interactive soft technology and brings a new element of sound into the environment.

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