Flask

Flask is a bottle that collects data. It condenses streams of 1s and 0s and represents the quantity stored using light. It plays on the inherent affordances of its form to map real world actions to digital functions – its cork can be removed and replaced to start and stop the collection of data and its contents can be poured, at varying rates, onto a surface. If it had to be categorised as an artefact of everyware, it would fall under the umbrella of ambient information. For the purpose of demonstrating Flask we made it aware of its geo-location and instructed it to store localised social networking data from the cloud. In this form, Flask can be placed into an environment to become a passive window into realtime social networking activity.