Mood Sensing Flowers

Mood rings are so last century people. NEC, NEC Design and SGI Japan take a new approach on sorting out your feelings. A microphone in each KOTOHANA “mood flower” captures voice data for processing, results are sent back via wireless LAN and the LEDs in the KOTOHANA blink back compatible colors (yellow is happy, blue is sad). The mood processor depends on Sensibility Technology (ST) developed by SGI Japan which detects emotions in speech. Not in production yet, the KOTOHANA will be on display at CeBit on March 9.