The AuraOrb is a notification device without the fine woodworking of other gadgets we’ve talked about lately.
https://gizmodo.com/the-device-patented-process-indicating-apparatus-eno-207681
Its specialty is to use social awareness cues, such as eye contact, to determine when it should light up its 360-degree display with your latest information updates. Touching the orb transfers messages directly to your computer screen. In our opinion, the orb makes a lot of sense for appearing anywhere other than right next to your computer.
No information on whether or not this will ever be available to the general public, but we like the idea of passive interfaces. Now if we could only update Gizmodo by stumbling around drunk while sobbing about our latent Oedipus complex.
AuraOrb [via informationaesthetics]
