Kotohana Mood Sensing Flowers

Posted by John Goulden Categories: Misc. Tech

The mood ring of the future has finally arrived, although with a slight twist.  With the original mood ring, it would change colors to indicate your current emotional state (uh-huh, right).  The Kotohana Flowers don’t detect your emotions, but rather the emotions of the person holding the other flower cluster.  See, the flowers come as a paired set, and each cluster of three changes color based upon the emotions of the person holding it’s twin.  The flowers work using an emotion recogntion engine called Sensibility Technology (ST) that recognizes emotion in speech patterns.  A small microphone is hidden in the flowers to detect happiness (yellow), sadness (blue), excitement (red) and calmness (green).  The technology, developed by NEC and SIG will be shown at CeBIT in Hanover, Germany.

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