Chatter Pillow, a glanceable and cuddly way to stay on IM

by Cyrus Farivar, posted Nov 22nd 2006 at 3:34PM

Some of the most popular items these days are internet-connected objects that contain glanceable information, such as the status of your inbox, the weather, or stock prices. Well, meet the latest addition to the family: the "Chatter Pillow." Designed by Rebecca Stern, an undergrad at the Parsons School of Design in New York, the Chatter Pillow is a midterm project for her "Making Wireless Toys" class. The pillow basically allows Stern to stay on IM from her bed or her couch, without the burden of a laptop -- one of the pillow's trio of icons will light up when one of three possible messages are received, so long as they're sent only from her boyfriend. If he sends "talk to me," "xo," or "on my way," then the icons (pictured) will glow blue accordingly. Now all we need is the cuddly lovechild of the Chumby and the Chatter Pillow for the ultimate in glanceable wireless cuteness gadgetry, and our geeked-out pad will be complete.

[Via MAKE: Blog]

Filed under: Misc. Gadgets

Tags: chatter pillow, ChatterPillow, im, instant message, InstantMessage, parsons school of design, ParsonsSchoolOfDesign, rebecca stern, RebeccaStern

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Shad Genki @ Nov 22nd 2006 4:14PM

Chumby will be better.

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Yury G @ Nov 22nd 2006 5:06PM

The "Making Wireless Toys" class blog is here:
http://yg.typepad.com/makingtoys2/

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Kim @ Nov 25th 2006 12:50AM

Uff

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nimbuscrenel @ Jan 25th 2007 10:44AM

they really blew it by not calling it "PillowTalk"

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marion rogers @ May 14th 2007 11:09PM

MY NAME IS SFC ROGERS IM CURRENTLY IN IRAQ WITH THE UNITED STATES ARMY. IT IS VERY HARD BEING AWAY FROM MY WIFE. THIS IS ALSO THE THIRD YEAR OF BEING AWAY FROM MY WIFE. I THINK THE PILLOW WILL HELP ME KEEP MY MARRIAGE TOGETHER. PLEASE PLEASE SEND ME INFO HOW I CAN PURCHASE THIS ASAP. MY ENTERNET PHONE # IS 254 220- 4545 OR WRITE SFC ROGERS SOULMATE3338@YAHOO.COM
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