McKinney
Jölly
Agency:
McKinney
Role:
- Creative Technologist
Project Type:
IoT + Wearable
Date:
Dec 2015
Built With:
- HTML
- JavaScript
- Cordova
- Bluetooth
- MuscleSpiker Shield
With all the buzz around wearables, connected devices, and the Internet of Things, we felt that it was only proper to bring to the world Jölly, a device that tracks your happiness - sort of. To put it short, Jölly put a smile on many people's faces. Jölly was a functioning satirical rendition of a connected device for the world of IoT but in beard form. The device leveraged an Arduino microcontroller, a Bluetooth chip, a TENS device, and a custom-built Android App. An Arduino-based electromyograph device in the beard measured a user's smile threshold. If the user was not smiling, the device was programmed to deliver a slight jolt to the face to turn that frown upside down. Users could see how intensely they were smiling through a Bluetooth-connected Android application interface, and if their smile did not pass the happiness threshold... ZAP!
Holiday Microsite & Video
Jölly Beard
The device was created using Arduino, a Bluetooth chip, a TENS device, and a custom-built Android App
Android Mobile Interface
The beard's EMG signals were sent to an Android application that would display and control the experience in the user's hand