01.05.12 - RAD's IM BLANKY featured by the Toronto Star, CTV, and others
IM BLANKY, an innovative blanket embedded with sensors that could monitor your sleep designed by Responsive Architecture at Daniels (RAD), has been featured by The Toronto Star, CTV and a host of other media outlets.
From The Toronto Star:
A network of tilt sensors in the shape of flowers and stems is embroidered into green taffeta fabric, allowing the blanket to wirelessly create a 3D model of itself on a computer in real time.
Lift a corner of the blanket, and the corner of the computer model lifts, too. Place it over someone sleeping, and the model would change when the person moves.
And by adding sensors for temperature, pressure, humidity and heart rate, it could become the ultimate comforter.
Too warm? The blanket monitoring your body temperature would command the thermostat to turn down, without you even noticing.
“You can snuggle up under your little blanky and rest assured that your environment will be optimized to your comfort levels,” says Christos Marcopoulos, one of the architects who led the project.
Take that, Snuggie.
IM BLANKY has also been profiled by:
The RAD team behind IM Blanky includes: Carol Moukheiber, Christos
Marcopoulos, Rodolphe el-Khoury, Valentina Mele, Sebastian Savone, Yi
Ping See, Samar Sabie, Dina Sabie, and Jonah Ross-Marrs.