
#199 Physical prototypes with Kathryn McElroy
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The Future of Calm Technology
The original idea was to help people stay focused at work and be able to realize the passing of time. Since I created this, there have been a couple of different other products that are similar. But it's really so you can feel passing of time and then have that slower, steady kind of help you regulate your heart rate as well. And by user testing, I went from a very small use case to like lots of use cases and even potentially a medical application of this one idea. Could you even use it to a preemptive device for like anxiety? Yes.
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