KAIROS SKY Live Timeless
Our daily lives are oriented around the clock time since the Industrial Revolution. This evolved our relationship with the clock time to be purely based on the amount of things one can get done in a certain amount of time. We have been orienting our lives around the clock time (industrial time) and neglecting the event time (natural time). Kairos Sky tells time with the color that parallels the current color of the sky. Kairos Sky intends to evoke more emotional and natural relationship between the time and person. Instead of seeing the numerical clock time, you’ll see a color gradient printed scroll of canvas that parallels to the color of the sky. Users can also custom print the scroll to add a personal meaning.
KAIROS CLOUD Be Conscious of the Moment
Essentially, time is information that we intake everyday. In today’s world we constantly and mindlessly consume this data because of the instant availability from the phone and watch, something we take for granted. With the Kairos Cloud, time is not always readily available for instant consumption. The current time will only be revealed through a process which is designed to enable consciousness of the user. When you tilt your wrist to see the time, an LED light will illuminate the hands of the watch which lie underneath a fabric on the face of the watch, displaying the time with a shadow. This small intentional delay in displaying time is a subtle reminder to users that they should not take time for granted and have more conscious thought to it.
KAIROS ECLIPSE Measure the Moment
Time-telling began as a measurement of the movement of the sun. Days were created off this movement, our lives confined to its rhythm. Today, we currently have resorted to measuring this movement in 24 hour time periods, conscious only of hours left in the day as it moves onward without halt. We wanted for this watch to turn the attention from movement of the day as a whole to movement of each moment, eliciting an awareness of your current state of being. For the Kairos Eclipse, we intentionally implemented a simple timer as the only feature of the watch. Eclipse’s only purpose is to measure a specific block of time relating to the particular moment in which you currently reside. Users will not view time as minutes and hours, but rather moments and their quality.
Tanner Wills & Hyunsol Park IND 461 Kairos
IND 461: Spring 2016 Design Project II
Students: Hyunsol Park, Tanner Wills Instructors: Valamanesh, Vierck