It’s easy to be snappy and nasty to innocent bystanders when you aren’t in a great mood… so imagine having a piece of jewellery that could detect your bad mood by tracking your skin conductivity, listening to your verbal patterns and tracking your breathing rate and then remind you to try and be a bit friendlier towards other people!
That sounds pretty useful to me… unless having a set of gadgets tell you what to do makes you feel even more grumpy!
– H.F.G.
Would you use bionic enhancements to make your life a little bit easier? Imagine if people added extra limbs, eyes and other organs to their bodies depending on their individual needs…
– H.F.G.
Would a device that allowed you to skip the small talk and find commonalities (or interesting differences) with new people (without the use of liquid courage) help you get over social anxiety and boredom? I think having an idea of someone’s interests, and also knowing what they hate talking about, would make me feel more confident in social situations!
– H.F.G.
There are so many reasons for avoiding fast fashion… its environmental impact and unethical manufacturing practices are the big ones. But there’s also the fact that we often use clothes to communicate a sense of identity, to share our personality with the world. Can a mass manufactured dress or pair of jeans really show people who you are? Handcrafted fashion and careful repairs aren’t a new idea, but if they became mainstream practices it would turn the fast fashion industry on it’s head! And it probably takes less time (and anguish) to repair those perfect fit jeans that then it does to find a new pair…
– H.F.G.