11 May 2011
What do you think of when we mention “romance”? Newcastle and mobile computers, you were about to say. So it’s fitting that Newcastle University researcher Anja Thieme is leading a project to create digital “lovers’ boxes”, wooden book-like devices that open up to display little video messages stored on the computer inside.
“A wooden passé-partout with rounded edges frames the screen to counter the usual connotations of a digital display. When placed within the box, the RFID tag in the key fob triggers a video message,” says our press release.
In the words of its creator, “The effort put into the creation of the video and handing the box over to their beloved was perceived as giving a gift of high personal significance… the interaction with the box created space for partners to display mutual social and emotional support.”
No, we don’t either.
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