Heartfelt 2006

�Heart-felt� encourages the user to establish a sense of intimacy with an object through the sharing of a heartbeat. When a hand is placed on the object, a small sensor picks up a heartbeat through the finger and the object starts to pulse in time with the human heart.

 

The transference of the fluctuations in a heartbeat to an otherwise inanimate object creates an extension of the user�s intimate physical and emotional state that can be read and shared by others.

 

The car was built by Tom Price and Henny van Nistlerooy using cardboard and tape and was displayed at Design Mai, Berlin, 2006.

 

Feonic kindly sponsored this project with the loan of a sub-base tactile transducer and amplifier that delivered powerful vibrations to the bonnet as the sensor was triggered by the heartbeat.