final project

Abstract

Today more and more people are images blogging. This is the idea of taking digital picture and posting them to the web. Two such popular system are flickr.com and TextAmerica.com. The former an elaborate online system allowing images to be uploaded in multiple ways, while the later TextAmerica aims primarily at the mobile user. These services give rise for a possible need of a new device. A networked camera. No need for memory cards, a modern day point and shoot, but now point shoot and send.
Puffle is a device children use to take picture which are automatically then uploaded to the internet. The system is also devised as a child monitoring system, which would be with the child in his/her infant stages. As the child grows the use of the Puffle changes slightly from a device which monitors to a device which the child controls. The system creates a subsystem of monitoring for the parents, because as the pictures goto the web the parents could see what the child was up to and where. This allows the parent to open the safety zone. More and or earlier in the child’s life while giving the parents a sense of comfort.

Why?
The design this system has many external influences. One is my love for Winnie the Pooh and the relationship that Christpher Robin and Pooh have. Another is my love for taking photos as a child just as much today. Also the general affinity for children toy, and the enrichment of the life children could have.

Then there is the beautiful imagery in the openning the Winnie-the-Pooh, as:

Boom boom boom Pooh’s head went as Christpher Robins dragged Pooh down the steps.

A stuffed animal as a transitional object can be useful to children. So in designing, I investigated toys and the trend of grown-up toys. Hope that there is a design that while mainly for kids, might appeal to grown ups.

When I was 5 years old, I received an Kodak X-15 Instanmatic. Our family would go on many trips and I would take lots of pictures on these trips. So what is many trips times lots of photos? 20 years later… about a dozen.

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