A biosensor to detect & sync human emotions

In collaboration with Ka Hei Suen, Christian felsner, and TAKEUCHI Lab

April 2017

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In nature, animals, plants and insects coexist as part of a synchronized ecosystem. They communicate with each other invisibly and inaudibly using a combination of smell and chemosignals.

Inspired by this natural phenomenon, Chemical Synchronization is a biological wearable device which, when worn on the neck, enables you to sense other people’s emotions and synchronize your own accordingly. Based on research by Takeuchi Lab, it uses a sensor made with chemoreceptors extracted from insects that can detect emotions like exhilaration and happiness through chemicals found in human sweat. Once sensed, these emotions can be filtered and amplified, and eventually transferred to other humans through a microneedle patch which delivers hormones like oxytocin and endorphins.

We envision a future where the device would be able to sense a broad range of emotions and allow you to chemically synchronize remotely.

Photos by Gottingham

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