Hydrogel is 97% water. The process of making Hydrogel included boiling water and then adding a gelling agent that was then put into different shapes and sized containers. The gel would solidify over time (about 5 – 10 minutes) and then you could pick it up from these moulds. We used petridishes, test tubes and ice cube trays. Below are a few pictures of the process.
The Edible Ice Cubes – When these food colored ice-cubes of gel are added to water, the coloring starts to naturally change the color of the drink. We thought about interactions here that could include noticing if someone tampered with your drink or not and notifying the drinker about this.
Based on these initial explorations, we decided to focus our prototypes on the following:
The three prototypes/interactions we came up with include:
All videos for these interactions can be found in our presentation here.
]]>WinWon is a winter jacket that solves all problems we may have during the freezing cold/rain weather of Boston and actually makes it reasonably convenient and (dare I say) slightly enjoyable too.
The jacket will include the following features:
Sensing
The “vision” or capabilities of the above
But what if we could translate that into a material?
And make it into something that was part of an “everyday” use (at least in Boston winters!)
Udayan’s comment: The body heat regulation through inflation is most interesting to me. Can you also think about interactions around this?
This jacket and inflatable helmet might also be interesting to you.
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