Make YOURSELF at home

摘要

If an email message were a physical object, what would it be? For Ted Hayes, a freelance designer based in New York, it's a soap bubble. He decided to connect his inbox to a toy soap-bubble gun using cheap and simple electronics. Hayes had little technical skill at the time, yet he got the contraption to work, spreading bubbles each time he received an email. He says he was pleased that "a normally frivolous and cheap plastic object could become interconnected with the world".