Assistant Professor Carol Moukheiber gave a presentation on IM Blanky at the ACADIA 2012 Synthetic Digital Ecologies conference in San Francisco last week.

The conference, which ran from October 18 to 21, "highlighted experimental research and projects that explore the reciprocity and synergy between bits and atoms, the digital and the physical, and between digital code and material logic." It brought together designers, researchers and practitioners including architects, fabricators, engineers, media artists, technologists, hackers and others.

IM Blanky is a blanket outfitted with more than 100 sensors that could monitor you while you sleep. It was design by a team at the Responsive Architecture at Daniels Laboratory (the RAD Lab) that includes Moukheiber, Assistant professor Christos Marcopoulos, and Associate Professor Rodolphe el-Khoury, as well as Valentina Mele, Sebastian Savone, Yi Ping See, Samar Sable, Dina Sable, and Jonah Ross-Marrs.

The smart blanket has received much media attention over the past year, the most recent of which includes a video interview with el-Khoury that Reuters published last month. You can view it online here.