The Brief

<aside> 📖 Remote Controlled

Design and develop a remote-controlled Chindogu and its respective remote control.
2 Objects = 1 Device + 1 Remote Control
The remote control cannot be a mobile phone or an already existing remote control.
Give special attention to the shared visual language of both the object and the remote.

Constraints

Follow the 10 tenets of Chindogu.
Absurdity: Come up with something you would not expect to be remote-controlled.

Due Week 7

Technical Resources </aside>

The Idea

Kat and I tossed around some ideas with what to do with this project. In my mind a device with a remote only needs to exist in two situations: if the thing you want to do is so small you wouldn’t stand up to do it yourself, or if something is physically out of reach. Surprisingly (ahh!) there is a secret third situation: when doing something scary/dangerous.

Kat and I went deep with the “bomb squad” analogy and thought about menially explosive things that are frightening but only because of how loud and unpredictable they are, things that need a remote detonator. We thought about airplane toilets, champagne bottles, but the thing that came to the forefront (and was the easiest to do) was the twist-and-pop containers that frequently hold pre-baked cinnamon rolls and biscuits. See below for some secondary research.

My wife is terrified of opening tubes of biscuits/rolls