Larynx or voice box. Practicing speaking. Walking upright – upright posture.
Posture
Highly developed metaphors – highly developed level of abstraction in the future. No need for physicality— no need for talking perhaps?
PLUS remember to avoid sci-fi idea of the future. Important to keep it in the speculative realm, not become tech geeky or steampunk fantastical.
Avoid sci-fi
Avoid cute
Should it be a drink? No.
It should be measurements. Or a tool for measuring (have not done that yet)
Measuring: days, time, hours, distance, emotional level
Moon watcher. Sun watcher. Sun clock.
![Sun_clock_in_Valka](http://portfolio.newschool.edu/bjerm019/files/2015/09/Sun_clock_in_Valka-s11d91.jpg)
No need to communicate (because there is no one to communicate with)
No need to talk about emotions. Rather measure them, and then action.
Measuring body posture as a physical expression of emotional state
![munari1](http://portfolio.newschool.edu/bjerm019/files/2015/09/munari1-1cmgkfp.jpg)
from Klausstille.com
![Aby_Warburg](http://portfolio.newschool.edu/bjerm019/files/2015/09/Aby_Warburg-21klvdg.jpg)
Aby Warburg
A way to connect astrology and psychology
Meaning: basically a way to connect the physicality of the stars and the beliefs connected to that to how our emotional states are. As astrology has always done. But also connecting this to the notion of bodies in a space which has a significance both culturally and naturally connected to body postures.
The device should somehow connect this into a meaningful pseudo-scientific (by our standards) measuring device.
Of course connected to horoscopes. The immediate meaninglessness of horoscopes, yet we believe in them. And still: they are often right. Like the oracle. Why shouldn’t the positions of the planets have influence? Gravity, sunstorms, all these things: the gravity of the moon moves the entire body of water in our oceans – why wouldn’t something move something in us as well?
The idea is that in the future we have a much larger connection to the planetary system on a much less divided pseudo-scientific way as we have today.