Project

Digital Cigarette

The Digital Cigarette is an exploration in motivation. It addresses the design of a device that can operate in multiple modalities, on behalf of its user and society. It is a small electronic device with a microchip that senses when it has been lit, when its user has inhaled or exhaled, when it is tapped, and when it is in the proximity of other digital cigarettes. Responding with sound and light it engages its user. For the individual user it is a device that strives to provide a break, a reminder of an agenda, procrastination control, meditation, stress relief, and focusing. For a group it strives to facilitate social interaction through gift giving and has some of the attributes of pocket pets, cell phones, text messaging, candy, cards, and actual cigarettes.