Automatic group hug announcer?

by kate | June 19, 2007 at 11:53 am

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A new artwork from Chris Hand on display at the Royal College of Art Summer Show in London. The piece, 139, 590 Devices, recombines words to generate a stream of ideas for new objects. I should reveal as a bias my penchant for generative textual pieces as well as my fondness for unimaginably strange objects. I think maybe it's love...

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Chris Hand has made a fascinating object called 139,590 Devices which challenges designers to turn into objects the names it generates and prints on a piece of paper. Just press the button and on the screen will appear three words whose combination always seem to make perfect sense: wireless road rage communicator, dog-mounted love alarm, gardener's neighbourliness matcher, gps-based group hug finder, peer-to-peer frustration reducer, domestic happiness announcer, pensioner's obsession matcher, community homesickness reflector, etc.