Anacleto

Your travel companion

CHALLENGE

Under extreme weather and overcrowded tourism, what kind of service can reconnect people?

SOLUTION

We provide a product service system which can let people collect and share their memories

ROLE

Researcher, Concept generation, Industrial designer, UIUX designer, Prototyping

Rome, June in 2035.

A sultry breeze fills the air, while the sun disappears behind the tiled roofs of Rome’s ancient buildings, coloring the sky in warm shades of pink. A quite pleasant conclusion to a terribly hot day in which temperatures have reached over 45° in certain areas of this vibrant metropolis. Now that night falls, the city changes garment and the narrow streets of the historical center fill up with excited yet noisy tourists, busy making of every corner a postcard through the lenses of their cameras. It’s summer 2035 and Rome follows a quite peculiar timetable: locals continue their normal routines facing the hot daytime temperatures; tourists, instead, enjoy their sightseeing during the night to avoid heat islands that compromise live-ability in the historical center. Shifted schedules help the city organization by improving viability and reducing complications connected to overcrowding. Early in the morning, in fact, while locals get ready to start their day, tourists head back to their accommodations to enjoy some hours of sleep before another night of visits.

How about the Tourists?

These changes in the roman summertime routine have implications on several services and institutions: museums and attractions need to modify their opening hours, restaurants and other food-related services need to extend their availability at nighttime, and hosting facilities obviously need to fit completely the inverted lifestyle of tourists. A simple yet complex change that involves many actors and provides interesting opportunities to design. Starting from this broad scenario we tried to imagine the life of a tourist who finds himself/herself wandering around the city center during hot summer nights and to understand his/her perception of the surroundings and eventual needs. How could make his/her experience unforgettable?

One of the most common activities that we all carry out as tourists is to collect memories. Every visitor tries to bring with himself/herself a glimpse of the best moments of his/her experience, something that will recall those moments even after a while. Hundreds of pictures that crowd up in our devices and that were taken to secure the memory of a specific action, landscape or detail. This need to freeze time in a shot or video has been our starting point in the design process.

* The scenario was formed based on our research of the city, ROME.

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THE GUARDIAN ANGEL CAPTUREs MOMENT

We knew that we wanted to create something wearable, and that could be carried around easily, allowing tourists to record special moments. At the same time, we aimed at designing a product that could have some empathy with the user, a real travel companion to which to be emotionally related rather than a conventional digital device. To pursue this objective, we let us get inspired by the nocturnal scenery and by the animals that live during the night. Anacleto is a small owl-shaped camera created for tourists who will visit Rome by night in 2035. As a little guardian angel, it levitates on your shoulder and allows you to enjoy the beautiful roman views and keep memory of them through the recordings. The cameras located in the eyes allow Anacleto to film in the dark, and magnetic levitation enables him to fly by your side. An object that you don’t physically wear but that is floating by your side as a little guardian angel. After a night of sightseeing, when you reach your accommodation, Anacleto recharges through Wi-Fi and gets ready for the night after.

From the scenario to the way/

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CAPTURE AND RECORD

Anacleto is equipped with two cameras: Ultra Wide and Wide. The Ultra-Wide camera captures four times more scenes, so it’s perfect for action shots.

Night mode comes on automatically when needed. Enjoy the beauties of the Eternal City and don’t worry about capturing and recording every moment because Anacleto will take care of it for you!

ACCESS YOUR FILES

Anacleto‘s data will automatically transit through a private cloud platform.

You will be able to see or download your photos and videos wherever you go for all your roman experience and even after.

REAL INTERACTION

Anacleto listens to your voice and does what you ask; it can recognize the following sentences: “Good morning Anacleto” to wake up the little owl and make it ready to record and take photos

“Good night Anacleto.” to turn it off and put Anacleto to sleep.

SHARING PlATFORM

The platform allows you to share your videos and photos to make your successors’ experience more complete and more productive.

Watching videos of previous guests can also help you to choose new places to see in Rome!

SELF-CHARGING

Anacleto automatically uses Wi-Fi connection when it needs to charge. The new system available in 2035 could convert electromagnetic wave energy into direct current.

THE POINT ON LEVITATION

To allow the floating of Anacleto, we explored different methods. One of the most exciting options revealed to be the magnetic levitation phenomenon applied to a superconductor stabilized and “trapped” in a magnetic field.

Though we cannot be sure of the discovery of such material by 2035, we believe and hope in the next future progress will be made, and room-temperature superconductors could actually be applied to our product.