Redesigning the vending machine to work for you

Curious Cans

Posted: May 14th, 2009 | 3 Comments »

The obvious next step after the ‘Curious Coffee’ experiment was to upscale it, and see what the combined effect would be. This movie shows what happens when 6 soda cans acquire the ability to perceive.

In this movie you can already see different behaviors emerge from the sensor-actuator systems. People do not perceive the installation as a computer, but attribute more animate characteristics to the different cans.

3 Comments on “Curious Cans”

  1. 1 Attaibior said at 12:45 am on June 6th, 2009:

    Hi, Congratulations to the site owner for this marvelous work you’ve done. It has lots of useful and interesting data.

  2. 2 BobMarche said at 1:01 am on June 11th, 2009:

    Thanks for the useful info. It’s so interesting

  3. 3 Martijn said at 7:29 pm on August 24th, 2009:

    Definitly “friendly vending”.

    Congratulations Guus, a lot of “real” salespersons aren’t as friendly and human as those cans ;- ).

    Human, All-Too-Human…. (FN) :)

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