Speculative Future Lifestyle – Future Artefacts
Desirable products of the future must adhere to certain principles of today; some things simply remain unchanged.
Our team explored how we can design future artifacts for the world of an elderly persona prototype. By establishing connections between current signals and the consequences in this future world, we identified some of the forms and experiences that future artifact ideas would embody. Ideas are generated based on these identifications, and we picked three potential concepts to expand on and visualize the outcome.
Discipline: Speculative Design, Futures Thinking, Design Fiction
Project Team: Lim Cai Jin, Sim Hao Jie, Melvin ong, Edmund Zhang, Mok Zi Jie, Alvin Ling, Rayson Tan, Rodney Loh
Faux Baby Pregnancy Kit
Faux Baby
What
AI Baby Pregnancy Kit: With longer lifespans, AI babies become a necessary means of controlling population growth. Faux baby pregnancy kits are designed to simulate real pregnancies, even though the AI baby is born virtually. Simulating a genuine pregnancy allows parents to develop a strong emotional attachment to their new digital offspring.
Gender and age are no longer constraints for having biological offspring.
Human Expressions and Needs: Human behaviours will continue to reflect their natural instincts to nurture. Realistic simulations are crucial to ensure that these needs are met.
Pregnancy Education: These kits allow potential mothers or fathers to experience pregnancy, preparing them for what lies ahead. They also encourage individuals to reconsider their decision to have an organic baby.
Mother With Faux Baby
How
Realistic Pregnancy: Pregnancy sensations are simulated through electrical nerve stimulation. This includes sensations like pain, fetal movements, heartbeat, and even pressure on organs.
Maternal Connection: The entire pod is equipped with a sensitive network that responds to environmental stimuli, such as touch and sounds. When parents talk, sing, or massage their belly, nerve stimulation is triggered to simulate fetal movements.
Biological Virtual Baby: Extended pod usage allows for the collection of more parental data. This data is then transformed into traits of the AI baby, including personality, heightened responses to familiar words and songs, and even the parents’ characteristics.
Neue Face Makeup Printer
Neue Face
What
Facial Modification Makeup Printer: Beauty standards evolve constantly. In a world where the ageing process ceases, beauty transforms from enhancing current facial features to adding facial modifications. This at-home beauty device screens your skin, repairs imperfections, and applies customised printed features and makeup to your face.
Beauty Expressivity and Standards: This device enables users to express their creativity and identity in ways that redefine what it means to be beautiful.
Skin Screening and Repair: Capable of printing additive materials directly onto the skin, this device is used at night to screen, repair, and strengthen facial skin.
User Getting Makeup Printed
How
Customizable to Personal Needs: You can select the type of facial modification you desire right in the comfort of your bathroom. Whether you opt for a preset style or create one yourself, achieving your desired look is just a button away.
Convenience at ease: Once you’ve chosen a style, place your face in the machine, and it will spray medical-grade silicone onto specific areas of your face to create the desired look. The skin-safe curing light in the center of the machine will then harden the silicone.
Nano Longevity Home Treatment
Nano Longevity
What
Home Nanobot Treatment: In today’s world, where a cup of coffee can keep sleep at bay, imagine a Nespresso machine delivering an elixir of youth every night. This machine diagnoses your health conditions, programmes nanobots to perform targeted functions for repairing and fighting detected diseases in your body. These nanobots are prepared as a shot for you to ingest every night.
Living Longer and Healthier: This extra assistance enables consumers to maintain a healthy body, free from diseases and infections. With advancements in technology targeting a wider range of viruses and even cancer cells, immortality may not be far from our reach.
User Taking A Nanobot Shot
How
Detection and Diagnosis: The system detects and diagnoses abnormalities and imperfections in your body.
Nanobot Programming: Nanobots are programmed within the dispenser to perform specific tasks in your body such as fighting viruses or repairing broken tissues.
Precise Dispensation: Multiple nanobots, each serving different purposes, are precisely dispensed into a cup for you to drink before bedtime.
Overnight Repair: The nanobots work to repair your body while you sleep, so you wake up feeling refreshed and perfect once again.
Daily Consumption: Every shot is designed to target a specific diagnosis, so it should be taken every night for optimal health and results.
At NOK, we are dedicated to continuously building a library of future world stories, signals, and persona prototypes. This ensures that the future is not merely a distant concept but a consequence of our present actions and choices. By adopting these methods, we can actively prepare for and shape the future. Read the full article here.
