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Reader Submitted: Eight Toasters that Compete for Your Attention Through Different “Personalities”
Imagine a world where objects compete for our attention and evolve for human interaction. The home is the battleground for product superiority and attention of the human figure—and on managing newness, human desire, and waste, the product sphere has entered a crisis of behavior. For the human gaze is an empowering force—we wield the power to create, and make waste, of objects around us. Instead of having to force attachment to products which we do not enjoy using, we should instead have the products we use designed to adapt to our attention.
Here I have created eight toasters; a metaphor for wasteful objects in the home, and present a future in which our appliances use personality to compete for our attention, lest they be thrown out and neglected.
http://www.core77.com/projects/71028/Eight-Toasters-that-Compete-for-Your-Attention-Through-Different-Personalities