DO YOU pay enough attention to your gadgets and possessions – even when they are no longer new and shiny?
at Indiana University in Bloomington is designing ways for objects to periodically make their presence felt, forcing us to “reflect” on them more often. He believes that this will increase our sense of attachment to our possessions, helping to end our unsustainable habit of constantly buying new things and dumping the old.
For instance, he has designed a table with an embedded digital counter that displays the number of heavy objects that have been placed on it during its…
