"O"
"Building O"
"Theory and vision"
"O" can be purchased directly from us.
We are currently bringing up the production chain, and for the moment we will be able to provide very few "O" gadgets each month.
Please reserve yours by writing us an email:
info [at] artisopensource.net
when writing please feel free to ask any question.
You can have your "O" in any of the colors shown anywhere in this page.
"O" will work with any mobile phone supporting Java (MIDP 2.0 onward) and on Symbian phones. Email us specifying your phone model, and we'll tell you if it works.
Yes, it does work on the iPhone. :)
An "O" costs 120 euros (plus shipping costs, depending on how far you live from Italy)
"O" is a bluetooth gadget with an emotional approach.
Using "O" you can communicate with friends and relatives in a very sensorial, tactile way, establishing new forms of dialogue and innovative and fun ways to interact with people.
While classic mobile communications aim at transmitting voice and image, "O" communicates using tactility and gestures.
Squeezing "O" triggers a message which will show up on the destination device as a vibration pattern and with the flashing of the colors selected for your mood, for the kind of relationship held with a specific person, or for whichever meaning you decide to assign to a certain communication. New gestures can be created in this way, allowing you to communicate anywhere in the world your emotions and feelings in a direct, effective and entertaining way.
You also will be able to connect with your friends and relatives using a quick, discreet, effective way: no more embarassing "calls from your mom" for teens; no more whispering into your mobile phone while you are in a meeting or at the cinema; no more typing SMS messages while you drive. A squeeze of an "O" is all you will need to let a specific person know exactly what you mean.
"Interacting with O"Using "O" you can communicate with friends and relatives in a very sensorial, tactile way, establishing new forms of dialogue and innovative and fun ways to interact with people.
While classic mobile communications aim at transmitting voice and image, "O" communicates using tactility and gestures.
Squeezing "O" triggers a message which will show up on the destination device as a vibration pattern and with the flashing of the colors selected for your mood, for the kind of relationship held with a specific person, or for whichever meaning you decide to assign to a certain communication. New gestures can be created in this way, allowing you to communicate anywhere in the world your emotions and feelings in a direct, effective and entertaining way.
You also will be able to connect with your friends and relatives using a quick, discreet, effective way: no more embarassing "calls from your mom" for teens; no more whispering into your mobile phone while you are in a meeting or at the cinema; no more typing SMS messages while you drive. A squeeze of an "O" is all you will need to let a specific person know exactly what you mean.
Here is a simple explanation on how to use your "O".
"Building O"
"Theory and vision"
Our everyday lives see us move daily to go to where we work, study, perform our administrative and bureaucreatic activities or, simply, to the places in which we socialize or do sports.
The roles of our homes changed, not being simply the aggregative center of the family or individual anymore, and evermore becoming a place in which we spend a short number of hours, where we consume one or maximum two meals, in which we receive bills and communications. The "week end" (and the other few days of the year in which we don't oblige to standardized timetables) is becoming the main lapse of time in which we truly use or living spaces inside our homes. The living space, thus, changes, adapting to these new conditions, and configuring itself to accomodate communication and entertainment instrumentation, business tools, sports tools.
The development of mobile telephony, the globalization of the economic markets, the availability of digital networks and of transportation, the possibility of having an international education, the standardization of our daily routines and work timetables: these are the elements at the base of the spatial transformation of our daily lives. The home is not our main headquarter any more, replaced by several temporary, material/immaterial, dinamic ones, integrated with each other through communication.
"O" is a companion in our daily nomadism.
"O" is a small, soft object, with simple aesthetics, suitable and pleasing to be held in a single hand for its ergonomicity and for its tactile feedback. It is totally covered in soft natural fabrics and it is filled with a soft, yet consistent, poliurethane foam.
It is a technological gadget offering a useful, simple, emotionally involving and sensorially stimulating form of communication to its owner.
Linear aesthetics immediately characterize "O"'s usage experience. Cupping it inside the palm you will probabily feel cmpulsed to squeeze it.
"O"'s functionalities are triggered by this simple gesture.
"O" is thought to establish emotional communication channels between friends, relatives or people that are sentimentally involved. The gesture performed by squeezing "O"'s body using the palm of our hands is declinable in a series of perceptive interpretations such as a handshake, a caress, a sensual touch, and it triggers the communication between two "O"s: when we apply pressure to it a signal is propagated to a destination "O", which reacts with the patterns of vibration and color configured for the specific person sending the sensorial message.
"O" pairs up with mobile communication devices that are bluetooth-enabled. Anyone owning one of these devices will be able to buy an "O" and to use it, choosing a personal list of "O-Contacts". Each of them (or groups of them) can be associated to a set of colors (e.g.: "Green and Yellow for my friend Mark, Blue and Red for mommy") and to a sequence of vibrations ("short-long-short for my friend, long-short-short" for mommy").
This configuration is executed once at the beginning and each time we wish to add a new "O-Contact".
While we drive, during a meeting or a school lesson, while we wait for the train or when we are out of our country, we will be able to squeeze our "O", letting one or more of our "O-Contacts" that we are thinking about them and that we are ok. Our "O-Contacts", in turn, will immediately see their "O" vibrate and flash with te patterns that they configured for us ("Green and Yellow with two short vibes! It's Mark!") and they will be able to answer by squeezing their "O", answering back with their color and vibration.
"O" establishes a sensorially and emotionally exceptional method of communication. The tactility - soft and "alive" - of the gadget, the immediateness of the gesture, the discreetness and integrability of this form of communication with the other activities filling our daily lives are he distinctive marks of "O".
"O" can be used in many contexts: families will be able to know if their children and teens are allright aoiding the embarassing "calls from mommy"; friends will share thoughts and sensations in a trendy, entertaining way; lovers will be able to communicate through emotional gestures; appointments will be made with a single gesture ("come over as soon as your O vibrates).
"O" appears as an egg-shaped object with a soft and compact consistenct, totally covered with a series of possible natural fabrics, available in a vast array of colors. The selection of the fabrics used ranges offers some surprises, as well.
Its small dimensions allows for the systematic use of the scrap fabrics coming out of the production lines of various textile industries, enacting a recycling policy that is effective in costs and impacts to the environment.
Special will be produced over time using scraps of fabrics coming from famous, prestigeous textiles, such as the ones seatings of famous sports cars, yachts or from famous places around the world. These "O"s will augment their appeal by establishing a direct reference with these "cult" places and objects.
Technically, "O"'s functionalities are implemented through simple electronic circuits. The electronic components are embedded inside the soft filling of the gadget: simple sensors and micro-control circuits acquire the applied manual pressure; an integrated circuit hosts logics and the bluetooth communication facility; the power circuit is accessible through a limb of fabric secured hrough velcro or through a soft clip-on button.
"O" can be configured to send its messages using several communication channels available on common mobile phones. Sample usages act through binary SMS, or through data conenction leveraging the internet connectivity of modern phones. Coss for the users will be extremely limited, each transmission being accomplished in a handful of bytes. Communication is designed so as to be recognizable by mobile operators and service providers, who will be able to provide special billing a pricing configurations to the owners of "O", creating innovative and communication effective services.
"Buy O"The roles of our homes changed, not being simply the aggregative center of the family or individual anymore, and evermore becoming a place in which we spend a short number of hours, where we consume one or maximum two meals, in which we receive bills and communications. The "week end" (and the other few days of the year in which we don't oblige to standardized timetables) is becoming the main lapse of time in which we truly use or living spaces inside our homes. The living space, thus, changes, adapting to these new conditions, and configuring itself to accomodate communication and entertainment instrumentation, business tools, sports tools.
The development of mobile telephony, the globalization of the economic markets, the availability of digital networks and of transportation, the possibility of having an international education, the standardization of our daily routines and work timetables: these are the elements at the base of the spatial transformation of our daily lives. The home is not our main headquarter any more, replaced by several temporary, material/immaterial, dinamic ones, integrated with each other through communication.
"O" is a companion in our daily nomadism.
"O" is a small, soft object, with simple aesthetics, suitable and pleasing to be held in a single hand for its ergonomicity and for its tactile feedback. It is totally covered in soft natural fabrics and it is filled with a soft, yet consistent, poliurethane foam.
It is a technological gadget offering a useful, simple, emotionally involving and sensorially stimulating form of communication to its owner.
Linear aesthetics immediately characterize "O"'s usage experience. Cupping it inside the palm you will probabily feel cmpulsed to squeeze it.
"O"'s functionalities are triggered by this simple gesture.
"O" is thought to establish emotional communication channels between friends, relatives or people that are sentimentally involved. The gesture performed by squeezing "O"'s body using the palm of our hands is declinable in a series of perceptive interpretations such as a handshake, a caress, a sensual touch, and it triggers the communication between two "O"s: when we apply pressure to it a signal is propagated to a destination "O", which reacts with the patterns of vibration and color configured for the specific person sending the sensorial message.
"O" pairs up with mobile communication devices that are bluetooth-enabled. Anyone owning one of these devices will be able to buy an "O" and to use it, choosing a personal list of "O-Contacts". Each of them (or groups of them) can be associated to a set of colors (e.g.: "Green and Yellow for my friend Mark, Blue and Red for mommy") and to a sequence of vibrations ("short-long-short for my friend, long-short-short" for mommy").
This configuration is executed once at the beginning and each time we wish to add a new "O-Contact".
While we drive, during a meeting or a school lesson, while we wait for the train or when we are out of our country, we will be able to squeeze our "O", letting one or more of our "O-Contacts" that we are thinking about them and that we are ok. Our "O-Contacts", in turn, will immediately see their "O" vibrate and flash with te patterns that they configured for us ("Green and Yellow with two short vibes! It's Mark!") and they will be able to answer by squeezing their "O", answering back with their color and vibration.
"O" establishes a sensorially and emotionally exceptional method of communication. The tactility - soft and "alive" - of the gadget, the immediateness of the gesture, the discreetness and integrability of this form of communication with the other activities filling our daily lives are he distinctive marks of "O".
"O" can be used in many contexts: families will be able to know if their children and teens are allright aoiding the embarassing "calls from mommy"; friends will share thoughts and sensations in a trendy, entertaining way; lovers will be able to communicate through emotional gestures; appointments will be made with a single gesture ("come over as soon as your O vibrates).
"O" appears as an egg-shaped object with a soft and compact consistenct, totally covered with a series of possible natural fabrics, available in a vast array of colors. The selection of the fabrics used ranges offers some surprises, as well.
Its small dimensions allows for the systematic use of the scrap fabrics coming out of the production lines of various textile industries, enacting a recycling policy that is effective in costs and impacts to the environment.
Special will be produced over time using scraps of fabrics coming from famous, prestigeous textiles, such as the ones seatings of famous sports cars, yachts or from famous places around the world. These "O"s will augment their appeal by establishing a direct reference with these "cult" places and objects.
Technically, "O"'s functionalities are implemented through simple electronic circuits. The electronic components are embedded inside the soft filling of the gadget: simple sensors and micro-control circuits acquire the applied manual pressure; an integrated circuit hosts logics and the bluetooth communication facility; the power circuit is accessible through a limb of fabric secured hrough velcro or through a soft clip-on button.
"O" can be configured to send its messages using several communication channels available on common mobile phones. Sample usages act through binary SMS, or through data conenction leveraging the internet connectivity of modern phones. Coss for the users will be extremely limited, each transmission being accomplished in a handful of bytes. Communication is designed so as to be recognizable by mobile operators and service providers, who will be able to provide special billing a pricing configurations to the owners of "O", creating innovative and communication effective services.
"O" can be purchased directly from us.
We are currently bringing up the production chain, and for the moment we will be able to provide very few "O" gadgets each month.
Please reserve yours by writing us an email:
info [at] artisopensource.net
when writing please feel free to ask any question.
You can have your "O" in any of the colors shown anywhere in this page.
"O" will work with any mobile phone supporting Java (MIDP 2.0 onward) and on Symbian phones. Email us specifying your phone model, and we'll tell you if it works.
Yes, it does work on the iPhone. :)
An "O" costs 120 euros (plus shipping costs, depending on how far you live from Italy)