Update your Facebook with a Pile of Ooze - Yanko Design

Sometimes you just want to sit down back and interact with a gelled blackness liquid on your desk. And of course, when y'all practise, yous desire it to update your Facebook. Yes. That is what this goo does. It gets you more than friends on social networks, and places yet another barrier betwixt you lot and other existent people.

Designer Nicolas Myers gives you some background:

Social networks, such as Facebook or Myspace, are a reality people using Internet can't avoid. They get more and more of import and have a crucial role of our virtual only at the same time real world identities. The way these systems work leads to new yet somewhat limited relationships : you can either "add a friend" or not, say "yes" or "no". A binary thinking similar this leaves no room for degrees of shade.

These oversimplified interactions are to some extent compensated by quantity – past collecting hundreds or even thousands of "friends". On Myspace the true quality of the service lies in the size of the network itself. But how tin y'all bargain with these such complex networks? Are concepts like "friendship" or "relationship" still meaningful when you handle hundreds of them?

Then he goes ahead and goos upward your social life:

Our project offers an indirect way to bargain with these problems. A virtual robot makes and keeps new contacts for you by taking over your virtual identity. Your only control over its decisions is through an interface representing the network itself : a blackness liquid surface covered by numerous spikes that stand for each of your "friends". It is by altering the surface of this « liquid », that one can interact with the robot and influence his deportment in the virtual world.

This reminds me of a game called Progress Quest, a game in which your only interaction with the character, storyline, or anything else, is turning the game on. Heard of information technology? Me either.

By the mode, this project is called Sociable Robot.

Designer: Nicolas Myers