How can we design objects that reflect or answer more to our inner feelings, our “illegitimate needs”, our “unofficial narratives”? Can we use and create technologies that talk to our personalities and individual emotions without being obtrusive or inappropriately smart (like Microsoft word trying to fill in blanks for me….)?

Attempt to redesign objects of our everyday lives with enough personality that they answer or cater or at least acknowledge how we live and exist as humans?
Not life awareness objects, but life aware.
Not intelligent, but absurd.
Not complex systems, but simple and adoptable and easy.

Objects with just enough (electronic) personality that they can help us live better. [More talking to be taken from the “life awareness objects” posts a few hours/days ago.]

• Romance lamp has a big ego. It’s the sexy lighting of the house but it hates when something else is on at the same time. [or i need to say dirty words to it for it to go on] –I’m horny
• My radio/Alarm clock randomly repeats things i’ve said during the day, especially when guests enter the house, just like a parrot, but worst. –i’m shy, I’m in denial
• MP3 player only plays music when you’ve chewed on it long enough, and often enough. [I comes with whippets so you can keep the bacteria away.] –i’m stressed
• Pillow deflates when it is lonely (also comes in doll version). It needs me to hug it tight for it to inflated and be of any use. –i’m lonely
• Lamp runs away when it is off & you come close to it. It even falls down and starts yelling when you touch it or try to pick it up. When it is on, it is mostly happy and static. –i’m depressed
• Garbage, ashtray, laundry bin complain when they are full. –i’m lazy
• Music box cries when you don’t ever open it. –i’m bored, disabused
• TV only plays when you hit hard on it –i’m pissed off

These should not be moral objects trying to make you a better person, they should bring out /answer the side of you that we don’t design for so often.