Enchanted Objects: Innovation, Design, and the Future of Technology

We interact with screens 90 percent of our waking hours. The result is a colder, more isolated, less humane world. Perhaps it is more efficient, but we are less happy.

When danger approaches, Sting glows blue, anticipating its own need and use.

When you sell pixels, it’s hard to imagine anything that’s not a screen.

The information the barometer had to offer could be ascertained with a quick look—it was glanceable. The device was polite, Zen-simple, and never intimidating. The object was dedicated to a single task of information delivery, located in one never-changing place in the house, quietly waiting to do its job. And it did so without the need for updates

I want the computer-human interface to be an empowering and positive experience—to minimize the interruption, annoyance, and distraction of our so-called smartphones and glass-faced tablets.

each of the main characters is linked to a unique melodic phrase, each played by a different, easily recognizable instrument. A clarinet signifies the cat, the wolf is a French horn, the bassoon announces the grandfather.

an I/O Bulb (I/O for input/output) that can project information on anything: paper, walls, tables, ceilings, and so on, creating what we refer to as digital “

The screen is a blunt instrument.

An augmented mirror, however, with interactive capability, could enable you to see an identity that you are actualizing. A social capacity could let you share this self with others.

the Heisenberg principle (which states, roughly, that an act of observation produces changes in what is observed),