Wazz AL. Caspr. The Caspr concept is the result of an exploration on how digital products can display 'hospitality'. The Caspr speakers physically show curiosity and enthusiasm towards the guests' mobile devices, hereby pro-acitvely inviting the guest(s) to share their digital contentn and media. Sharing and playing this media at someone else's house is often difficult: passwords, settings and cables are required. So, there is an opportunity for an intelligent system that allows hosts to open up their ‘digital’ house to guests so that the guests can can play their music on the host’s audio system, share their photos or Google something on their PDA. The project started with a vision: ‘Guests’ digital products are also guests and should be treated accordingly.’
The resulting concept was CASPR; a set ofspeakers which react physically to proximity of guests’ devices. This concept can be applied to more devices: Input and output devices are mutually attracted. Opus 4 by Mendel. You are your music. Sensible Music - Stefan Zwegers. A current health risk for a lot of people, especially youth, is music induced hearing loss. Young people turn up the volume of their music on their mp3 player to feel the low tones, increasing the risk of hearing loss. With this project I presented a design to really feel the music when listening to it with an mp3-player while having the music’s volume on a healthy level; Sensible Music. The Dutch Hearing Society makes young people aware of the risks of music induced hearing loss and acted as an expert partner.
The main product consists of three parts: the filtering module and two separate vibration motors. The signal of an mp3-player is filtered and the lower frequencies are translated to the two vibration motors. The vibration motors are attached to the wires of the ear buds and when you are listening to your favorite music you will really feel the beat. Want to feel more? Sensible Music; Listening to music never felt this good. Press: Exhibits Dutch Design week 2010 at ID’10 exhibition.