Office Devices Modified to Make Employees Look Good

Designer Alice Wang has modified devices used in a typical office environment (computers, cell phones, printers, earphones) to make employees faced with peer pressure, look good and create a good impression. [via we-make-money-not-art.com]

-- The popular mobile is meant to make a worker look popular. By beeping at regular intervals, it makes people who are listening believe that text messages are coming in.

-- The fast typing keyboard is for slow typers - so no one notices.

-- The positive printer generates positive rumors about an employee. It filters his/her e-mail box and prints out all positive messages automatically.

-- The double sided headphone is for people who are not sure of their music taste and worry they will be judged by the (wrong) kind of music they listen to. The headphone has two tracks and plays one track inwards and one track outwards with different music simultaneously.

See work in progress here.

emily | 9:21 AM | SMS and the Arts |
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