Control your music with your heart(beat)
Anaid Gomez Ortigoza, student at the Interactive Telecommunications Program at NYU, is working on a project called kokoro which is a wearable playlist generator for the iPod based on the heartbeat. The concept is simple to use but fully packed with innovative ideas: the heart-rate is picked up by a Polar heart-rate sensor. The signal is received by Anaid’s specially developed electronic which is housed in a cute textile pouch connected to an iPod. The software selects songs form your music library that match the current heart rate. But there is an option to disagree with your hearts choice of music: one button to tell the kokoro DJ to chose a more powerful song or to slow the music down a bit. If you have a song in your library that fits a heart(beat) but you don’t like to listen to right now – skip it.
[via talk2myshirt ]

















