Sometimes, a proxy for physical touch can be as powerful as a local presence. We explored this principle in the development of a system that lets remote lovers know when their partners are engaging their adorable surrogate "Lovebirds."

The flower blooms and lights up your living room when people pay tips into the tip jar or each time you make a transaction with your credit card. During the rest of the day, it's a beautiful home decoration like a flower vase :-)

People often use mental accounting models, such as weekly or monthly budgeting to reign in on their spending habits. Yet even disciplined spenders, have a trouble keeping count of their spending. The connected bowl collects the average of aggregate spending data, over the last 7 days, and displays it as the water level in a fish bowl. High spending, will lower the water level, while low spending would increase the water level.

An in-depth exploration looking at how the pollination process can be re-created for the Mars environment.