These smart-home devices are disguised to look like balancing Zen Stones! - Yanko Design

If the future of the smart home is all-around integration, what'due south a ameliorate case than products that absolutely integrate themselves into your domestic surroundings? The Wepoom is a series of home-cameras and a projector that pull inspiration from zen stones, creating what is best described as an IoT Japanese stone garden in your home. The Wepoom is characterized past multiple pebble-shaped devices that nest one above the other on a wireless charging mat to periodically recharge their batteries. When they're fully charged, the camera units can be strategically placed at diverse points in the house, while the projector unit itself could be used to have video chats with people in different rooms or to see who's at the door. Conversely, Wepoom'southward charging mat can even be used to juice your smartphone when its ain devices aren't getting re-energized.

The Wepoom explores an interesting design management by making gadgets look more unassuming and assuasive them to alloy into home decor as interesting products (quite like this kinetic-sculpture WiFi router). Wepoom'due south design explores an attribute of cultural relevance too, bridging the gap betwixt tech and tradition in an unusually pleasing manner. The individual pebble-cameras don't only do their jobs, but also take an interactive element that doesn't seem forced. I'd argue that balancing the zen-stones on top of i some other (which become fixed in place magnetically then they don't accidentally topple over) would exist a sort of highlight that people would look forward to and enjoy, different the absolute chore it is to usually accuse devices.

I imagine the only logical adjacent pace would be to pattern a silicone housing for the Nest Dwelling house Mini that resembles a Feng Shui Lucky Cat!

Designer: Seongmin Kang