Saurabh Datta designs and prototypes products and concepts with physical and digital interfaces that are meant to be from the near future. https://www.dattasaurabh.com/
current_state – World’s mood, each day, as generated music
current_state is a fictional-functional product that analyzes daily news from major regions worldwide to understand global sentiment, then generates music that represents the world's mood each day.
mi/e-metic self – Building a slave to the digital media’s consumer culture
Created by Saurabh Datta, 'mi/e-metic self' is an installation that represents a sculptural being, a memetic representation of an evolved us.
ChineseWhispers – Inaccurately transmitted gossip
Created by Saurabh Datta, "ChineseWhispers" is an installation comprised of four head figures performing "Chinese Whispers" – a sequence of repetitions of a story, each one differing slightly from the original, so that the final telling bears only...
border_ctrl – Internet Border Control (IBC)
Created by Saurabh Datta, border_ctrl explores future government agency, created to keep tabs of internet browsing of individuals. To keep a healthy control of one's online activities, Internet Border Control[IBC] runs a daemon on individual's com...
Poetic Router – A tribute to the age of network awareness
Created by Saurabh Datta (automato), Poetic Router is a project that investigates the potential of the everyday manufactured IoT platforms beyond what is commonly discussed. Whereas most concerns of IoT are focused on security since every "Chip-‘e...
Politics of Power – Products with embedded ideologies
Created by automato, Politics of Power are speculative objects/devices/fictional artefacts that question political and social implications of network ownership/control using ideology driven distribution of electrical power as an analogy.
Conditional_Lover – A physical bot that automates your Tinder
Conditional_Lover is a bot that unlike its counterparts that live hidden in servers, has a physical appearance with a task to automate your Tinder using its "eyes" and "fingers". It does this by analysing photos on your phone (webcam) and then sel...
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