July 8, 2005
The mobile pleasure unit
The mobile pleasure unit pushes forward the relationship we have with the mobile phone. m.pleasure works together with a Bluetooth enabled phone. Attached to the most sensitive areas of our body, its intention is to translate an ethereal digital message into something physical, letting us feel the communication.
m.pleasure is also a critical approach to how we have sacrificed our personal relations for the benefit of technology: face-to-facepersonal relations are being pushed aside to let the distant and ever less physical communication take over.
As in every relationship, with the m.pleasure there will be a giver and a receiver. The Giver is totally safe, acting from their almost virtual position and sending messages to whomever they choose. By connecting the m.pleasure to their body, the Receiver is rendered vulnerable and open to let technology act upon them.
The m.pleasure has been prototyped and the technology behind it already exists in the open market.
By Nagora Salaberria, at Someth;ng.
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