Original found object:
Wireless headphone
A semi-broken sound headphone with broken microphone
2D layout of the de-constructed components
Process
Product
Video demo
Reflection:
Headphone brings sound to us. It is only for one person,
user can enjoy the music under the headphone.
Under the pandemic situation,
it also becomes an important bridge to communicate with others through the Internet.
How can people share the audio by using headphones?
Some audio separators design comes out, aiming to share the audio to more than one headphones.
However, if I directly change the headphone's form,
turn the headphone's sound-producing unit to be a speaker to share the sound freely with the people surrounded.
Reflection on the making process and the creative process
and the messages bring from this new form of “speaker.”
This a semi-broken sound headphone with a broken function mic,
before it was broken, it was a well-functioned 5.1 gaming headphone.
It was good for users to enjoy the games' sound, enjoy those effects from the games,
or even enjoy the sound creation from the movies.
It was placed somewhere after it was broken,
but I never thought to throw it away as waste.
It should have some ways to “respawn” it in a new way as it is not fully broken.
This creation is titled “Shareable sound”, besides speaker can share sound with people, can a headphone do it?
During the process to respawn this headphone by producing sound as much as its remaining functions,
which can cover the semi-broken sound problem.
Now it becomes a speaker that can shares sound with people.
This creation inspired me to reflect on changing the property
of the object and find out if there is any possible way we never imagine that can be excess.
Maybe there are the “original” or “suggested” way to use those things,
But do it mean that there no other way to use those things? The answer should be no.
