wolfliving:

rafaelfajardo:

posting so I can find it later. thinking about the sofa at Casa Jasmina, and the low likelihood that someone would want to plug a sofa into a power outlet, and then someone in Milan goes and suggests that that is exactly what we all want. so we should be looking at the seats supplied by Southwest Airlines at their airport gates. but what about the data that the sofa would/could gather? what kind of data services should that sofa provide? is there such a thing as a soft and flexible Printed Circuit Board that would have an onboard IoT server? and in the IoOOOT framework, would the sofa want data? if so, what kind? and what kind of sofa society would arise from sofas communicating? and how are we equipped to help that society?

*I’m in a bed festooned with wires and plugs right now

You’re right, of course. I’m imposing a traditional value system and it’s straight-jacketing my thinking. maybe the sofa is ready to leap to the next energy state, to evolve, and I’m being a poor member of the helper species. it wants to have shielded conduit, and 220 volt AC circuit breakers, and pads for inductively charging the devices that it wants to wear as jewelry when it allows us to drape ourselves over its frame.
I think that the desire for simplicity was also limiting my imagination. DIY F/LOSS furniture that I have seen has to presume an Ikea level of handicraft, which is to say it has catered to the novice. Italy has grand craft traditions which it has honored across time. Why wouldn’t the sofa for Casa Jasmina be a baroquely dense techno-marvel? I’m now imagining it being it’s own cell-phone antenna and micro-wave relay station. It would then be able to keep our espresso cups warm while we sip. 😉