apapacho
Náhuatl. Caressing with your soul
Missing someone is difficult. You long to see them, to hear them, to feel them, to be near them.
We live in a world where we can send a photo instantly, make a phone call from another continent, and even travel anywhere in the world in a day to meet someone.
But how do you literally feel that person you miss who is no longer there?
Exploration - conceptualization - development - definition
People are made up of physical traits that identify them, but also of small details that form their essence.
Just by holding someone's hand you can know who they are and open the door to a sea of emotions.
Idea exploration.
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apapacho is a device that uses the sense of touch to allow a living person to connect with someone who has left the earthly plane.
The device replicates the sensation of touching and feeling someone, interacting at the same time with the user and their feelings, offering haptic feedback through physical surfaces.
Human skin is the largest organ in the human body. It is full of cells that gather information from the environment and allow it to adapt to it.
apapacho has a layer of sensors distributed across its body, which allow it to identify the pressure, temperature, texture and rhythm with which it is touched.
Caressing, squeezing, rubbing, scratching, pressing, gentle touching, means talking with your hands.
apapacho collects this information of how a person has been touched and stores it there, thus storing the essence of that person.
apapacho creates a tactile archive of a person and preserves it for posterity.
Hands have a language that sense how something is held so that they can communicate various feelings and emotions.
apapacho can identify the way in which it is touched or held and respond to this stimulus with the stored information of the absent person.
If the device identifies a pattern of fear when held by the still-living user, it will respond by adjusting the temperature, pressure, force and rhythm of the surface, bringing to life an external material, which replicates the texture of human skin, through the layer of actuators underneath it.
If apapacho identifies an interaction with a calmer pattern and less pressure on the object, indicating a longing, the actuators will respond and adjust the surface according to the way it stored a caress from the person who is no longer there.
apapacho is a neutral, blank device. It is the interaction between people who exist in different dimensions that brings it to life.
