Basheer Tome is a hardware interface designer and masters student in the Tangible Media group of the MIT Media Lab. His early work focused on remote collaboration and creating more clever, useful, digitally-native household appliances from toasters to timers.

Prior to joining the Media Lab, he received a B.S. in Industrial Design from the Georgia Institute of Technology and worked at Google in various capacities from user experience design on the Hangouts video chat application to interaction research for Google[x], designing both software and hardware to prototype new digital and physical interactions.

View more of his work in his portfolio at: http://basheertome.com/