Perfect Fit is a virtual clothes try-on service from 2025 that allows you to get a real feel and look of the clothing items on your body before purchasing them online, right at the comfort of your home. You no longer have to worry about ordering many sizes of the same item in order to pick one that fits you while returning the rest. Perfect Fit comes with a shirt that adapts to your body shape for perfect sizing and fit. It also adapts to the material and the design you specify on the Perfect Fit app. You will get a preview of how certain materials feel on your skin and how certain designs look on your body before making a purchasing decision. The precise measurement and adaptation of the Perfect Fit shirt will minimize online shopping errors and ensure all your future clothing orders are perfect!

“Bubble Hat” is a personalized health protection hat and wristband accessory to keep people safe in their environment. The hat is solar-powered and voice interactive. It circulates filtered air from the hat in a 2-foot radius to create a sanitary air bubble around users. The hat uses GPS and live environment health index data to determine its LED color. Green indicates safe direct contact conditions. Red indicates an unsafe environment for direct contact and encourages contactless interaction. A lidar sensor is used to detect motion between human interactions, prompting the hat to give feedback and voice guidance to the user. When touching things outside your bubble, the wristband accessory automatically sprays the refillable sanitizer, which dries instantly with bubble airflow. The hat also includes joint attach accessories including music, light, and personalized decorations. Additionally, the hat is customizable for weather, styles, and designs. Bubble Hat is a must-have in 2025.

The CONFLICT CAPS are three hats that were part of social movements in response to the social distancing caused by the COVID-19 outbreak. The COVID CAP, the first of the three, is a spiked DIY hat intended for the wearer to demonstrate support of social distancing in the face of protests that grew to prominence in 2020. The CLOUD CAP, from 2022, was a response to the first cap, and meant to be an encouraging beacon of connection with others after the quarantine orders had been lifted. The hat resembles a cloud, and its texture, smell, and lights garner attention and affection. Lastly came the CURTAIN CAP in 2025, a cap with curtains to conceal the face, meant for wearers who were tired of the discourse between the other hat wearers to remove themselves from the conversation and make life feel normal. Together, they comprise the CONFLICT CAP COLLECTION.

Covid-19 changed the way we interacted with objects at home. When it first hit, a lot of people started to stock up on goods, buying more groceries than they usually would. While some people bought a lot of stuff they would never use again, other people wanted to re-discover objects and elements they had at home or pickup an old hobby. We went to 2025 and brought back a box with Smart Stickers. Smart Stickers are a technological development that helps people re-discover objects in their home by reminding them of them. By doing so, Smart Stickers reduce food waste, enhance community sharing and allow people to easily build a routine and pickup that old hobby.

As society deals with Covid-19, it must address the need for connectedness and the rise in stress due to uncertainty. Tools including Zoom are popular but cannot replace in-person interactions. By 2025, it will be critical to develop technology which provides more meaningful interaction. We designed Ensemble (“together”) as a home assistant technology which utilizes a digital app to connect the user with their social network who might be isolated in different locations. Sensor-dependent machine learning will recognize the user’s emotion and send alerts to friends/family if the user is distressed. Friends/family can provide an Ensemble user with a custom atmospheric experience designed for relaxation. Users can also communicate synchronously by connecting their environments for a social experience. Finally, privacy is by design, with all assets released under the CC BY-NC 4.0 (creative) and GPLv3 (software) licenses.

CoronaMatch reimagines quotidian antiviral face masks and life here-after the 2020 Covid-19 crisis. Consisting of a fashion forward, collapsible, and highly customizable facial shield, our Corona, pairs with our new mobile dating application via Bluetooth enabled devices to tastefully ease anxiety, crowd source contact tracing, and enhance social interactions. Coronamatch unmasks the mask. Designed to fit the full face, bearded or not, our Corona features transparent and washable material filtering viral particles and aerosol pollutants, with a lightweight silver frame, Corona enhances breath-ability, facial visibility, and style. Our premium masks are retrofitted with led lights, a small facial recognition infrared camera, and a Bluetooth receiver that transmits opt-in social contact data to our secure cloud server. Control your image, by altering the flash-frequency and color of lights on your Corona. Sync your mask with our CoronaMatch app and get flashing luminous synchronization when you’ve met your romantic match!

Wave is a user-centric wearable EEG designed to provoke spontaneous, intimate social connection and increase sense of place and community. It uses electrodes embedded in an earpiece to detect electrical activity in the brain, which is transmitted to the Wave smartphone application via Bluetooth. The earpiece can be calibrated to detect synaptic signatures–for instance, your neurological reaction to thinking of a specific photo–of varying intensity levels, in order to trigger different actions via a customizable IFTTT (If This Then That) framework established in the app. The latest iteration of Wave, released in late 2025, is capable of interpreting brain activity to send messages, ping other Wave users within a 30 ft radius, and create and share ‘synaptic snaps’ of live neurological data. Initially conceived during the social distancing measures undertaken for the COVID-19 pandemic, the device has become an indispensable tool for social connection in the modern era.

After the COVID-19 pandemic, internet communication evolved from being a privilege to a necessity, even for those without personal devices. All forms of human collaboration including business, education, and transportation began to heavily rely on digital interaction. To cope with a new age of technological dependence, governments evolved their core infrastructure to serve as a communication medium to their citizens. However, what started as a PSA initiative, has since been adopted by several departments and communities to rebuild the societal comradery seen before 2020. The “Reimagining Sidewalks” project focuses on sidewalk improvements through three iteractive lenses: communication, navigation, and public health, highlighting features ranging from bulletin board replacements to aggregated data for directing pedestrian movement. The underlying technologies are also briefly explored for the purpose of promoting community involvement and innovation. We hope to shape smarter, safer, and more friendly cities through the most fundamental core of open public space.

Kob-E is an iPhone app combined with a hardware platform consisting of a stereoscopic camera, proximity sensor, and laser pointer. The app brings players from across the globe to play a simple game of HORSE, a basketball game, bridging their physical environments through virtual connection. The hardware box is placed on top of the backboard of a basketball hoop and can track the location of the player through the stereoscopic camera. Video feed of the camera is also displayed on the player’s phones so they can watch each other shoot. The proximity sensor can detect if the ball went in the hoop. The laser pointer can display where the players are shooting their ball from. The score of the game is kept through the app, which can tell players when it is their turn to shoot. Even though they are separated by distance, this app and hardware connects friends world’s and allows them to play physical games with each other.

Life hasn’t been the same since 2020. Periodic isolation weeks become more difficult as the feeling of loneliness grows even though they have been part of the world’s monthly routine for six years now. People avoid going out to limit the need to touch door handles or bus poles, in fear of coming in contact with new viruses. Actually, the world isn’t this way for everyone. Guardian owners still live their lives to the fullest! Guardians are fashionable robotic pets that accompany their owners in any activity by wrapping around their neck or arm. Guardians protect their owners by scanning surroundings for threats and assaulters. They can also identify germs on any surface and perform tasks so that their owners avoid contaminated surfaces. Guardians love being pet and playing with their owners. They are full of wonders and learn very fast. They are the perfect companions for everyday’s hidden dangers.

Street lights have been a center of crime rate debates, however, police-grade lighting can be detrimental to natural light cycles. Examples of these intrusive surveillance lights can be found in West Oakland, where astonishingly there are no physical markers commemorating the Black Panther Party (BPP). To address both issues, a hacked projector using the high power LED streetlights was created. The system is suspended from the light and focuses etched acrylic images of the BPP through a commercial camera lens, while also casting a large shadow around the image to amplify the projection and reduce light pollution. Multiple images can be cycled through using a laser up to 30 feet away to activate a servo motor. The projector base was designed for image and lense interchangeability and for reproducibility for future memorial projects.

This protest object stands for Freedom of Thought. It is designed to demonstrate that on their surface, mainstream Social Media pretend to be platforms that promote such freedom, but in reality suppress it - through user data abuse (psychographic profiling), proprietary code, and obscure policies and terms. Our goal is to imitate the Facebook™ user experience, raise audiences’ awareness of information filtering and encourage people to think for themselves and express themselves - freely. Therefore, we design a handheld megaphone, playing with the idea of making it no longer an object that amplifies our voice; instead, it blocks it to show Facebook’s bubble.

We feel power in natural sounds when everything is silent. We wanted to build a product that can bring such power to people in a protest. Our name is inspired by an event that took place in Berkeley in the 1960-70s called “Flower Power”, where protesters wore vibrant colors and gave out flowers to policemen as symbols of peace and nonviolence. We wanted to utilize those symbols to advocate against climate change. Our design revolves around combining sounds from nature, light patterns and building a sense of community. We designed a wearable button capable of interacting with other similar buttons through bluetooth. Indeed, each person will have a default color and associated symbolic sound when first receiving it. Before the protest starts, the button encourages protesters to build connections with each other by enabling them to exchange sounds and colors, creating shared light patterns and playing symbolic sounds in unison.

Climate change protests are global. This movement advocates big changes: zero emission transportation, completely eliminating fossil fuels, and other big goals. Sometimes it’s hard for everyone to be a part of those things. But a unifying concept of the climate change movement is that together, people can make a difference. If everyone were to plant one tree, that adds up to a lot of trees. For this project we have designed a do-it-yourself pollution absorber that can remove particulates from polluted air such as smoke or smog. This is intended to be a project that anyone (especially kids) can build and bring to a climate protest, and then continue to use. The device itself is a good platform for further enhancements which would make it more interactive.

First Step is a protest design piece aimed at challenging complacency and encouraging participation in social movements. Using a megaphone, First Step plays audio from famous protest movements and inflammatory audio from speeches of authoritarian leaders. When a user steps onto the platform to where the white footprints indicate they should stand, they trigger the pressure sensor embedded in the platform, cutting off the recorded audio and toggling the megaphone to begin amplifying the user’s voice. The symbolic act of stepping onto a platform and replacing these voices with your own is meant to demonstrate that despite how daunting it may seem to get involved in social movements, all it takes is a single step and a platform to speak. By placing this object on the Free Speech Monument, the piece reminds users of the importance of Berkeley as a hub of free speech and the power of protest.

In June 2019, mass protests against an extradition law took hold of the streets of Hong Kong. The government’s surveillance apparatus and its facial recognition technology tracked and monitored who the protestors are and their movements, often captured by the subway’s or lamppost’s CCTV systems. We developed ID DEAUTH, a lightweight object to attack and disable pervasive surveillance camera systems discreetly with a single-click. By disrupting devices and CCTV networks nearby, ID DEAUTH also gives the attacker the ability to broadcast coded messages via a mobile smartphone, such as Glory to Hong Kong ✊ as its network name. ID DEAUTH is cleverly disguised as an everyday object--a Marlboro cigarette pack--which can be interchanged with other objects or embedded into wearables easily. It is designed to protect the attacker and citizens’ identity and right to street protests in a non-invasive, non-violent way while operating around frequent police searches and unreachable lampposts.

In February, the Red Cross in China got a large number of masks from international aid, destined for people in Wuhan, to prevent the spread of Coronavirus. Instead of distributing the masks to local hospitals, the Red Cross held on to them and distributed some to government officials. We condone the actions of the Red Cross, so we decided to create an object that would both mock and criticize the Red Cross, while at the same time invite people to take action. We created a green cross that invites someone to grab a mask and then disapproves of this by turning red and screaming at the moment people take it. Our cross is an art piece you could see in a wall at a museum, but could also be taken by activists to hospitals to raise awareness of the situation and mock the selfishness of the powerful.

Sentry is an interactive speaker designed to nudge people out of their daily routine by bluntly presenting the ubiquitous and implicit social pressures around them. It invades personal space by hanging at head level, uses a motion sensor to detect when people walk nearby, flashes LED strips to get attention, speaks authoritatively with dual integrated speakers, and retracts up and out of sight with a hidden winch system. Implemented on the UC Berkeley campus, Sentry underscores our implicit submission to capitalist values–specifically those having to do with the technology industry of the Bay Area–by encouraging students to derive self-worth solely from their success in the tech scene. By plainly articulating strong, implicit social pressures, we hope to make students more aware of, and ultimately less susceptible to them.

A common problem when doing exercise is not having music that matches the mood. Research indicates that listening to music while running can boost step rate, heart rate, and endorphin release. We created Groove Shoes for runners that want to better enjoy the sport and that want to improve their performance while at the same time feel more motivated and less fatigued. Groove Shoes is a small box that laces into one shoe, detects footstep rate, and then play songs at the right BPM from your favorite playlists on Spotify.

Have you ever wondered if it is a good moment to approach someone in your office? Well you won’t need to worry about that anymore with Visus, a real-time visual work status of your colleagues. With one quick glance at the backrest of that person or at our top view UI, you’ll be able to identify if a person is occupied, free or in need of support. Your chair automatically detects different movements that translate into status updates. If you want to focus on something, just move up and down as part of your ritual to get launched into action. If you require support, do a 360º view, same as if you were looking for someone. If you want to relax, just lean back and savour the moment. These simple gestures with your chair, will enable a more efficient and comfortable workspace for you and your peers.

The mission of Aquatic Sense, is to keep paddlers and aquatic recreational explorers unencumbered by technology, while leveraging technological innovation and crowd sourced citizen science as a means of augmenting user sense and engagement with the natural world. This project is inspired by aquarium experience, where people attend aquariums to learn more about marine animals (through text, interactions, videos, live animals, etc.) and possibly interact with them. Our goal is to create an interactive stand-up paddle board experience that is fun yet educational. Users can learn more about marine life via AR experiences while contributing to iNaturalist, a citizen science project and online social network of naturalists, citizen scientists, and biologists built on the concept of mapping and sharing observations of biodiversity across the globe, by collecting and sending photos and observation data.

Enlighten is an interactive skateboard that teaches you how to land tricks with steez. On the app you can pick from a database of tricks from the basic ollie to the advanced tre flip to upload to your board. The deck will light up with LEDs to indicate where to place your feet and guide them as you send it. After attempting, the app will provide feedback with a digital model showing you how structured the trick was based on a comparison between real accelerometer data and an ideal model. Enlighten also connects you to the skate community, showcasing your skate progression through tricks you’ve unlocked and allowing you to upload rad tricks of your own and download them from others. Stack clips with your new bag of tricks with Enlighten!

GoCart is your friendly, neighborhood grocery cart that acts as a shopping companion. In a world with so many choices, choosing the right foods for you is a constant challenge especially since everyone isn’t the same. First, GoCart helps personalize your grocery runs through a quick and easy survey. However, GoCart doesn’t stop there. At the grocery store, GoCart helps encourage good behavior and discourage bad behavior with haptic feedback through shakes and vibrations and audio cues. It is personality generated according to your preference, as well as a customized look. Beyond a shopping cart, GoCart is no longer a tool in the grocery, it is your buddy to help you become a better person.

Seederly is a special walking cane that allows the user to plant and water seeds during a typical neighborhood stroll. Using a servo motor attached to a rotating dial, the user can press a button to drop the seed on a patch of soil. The cane also has functionalities to carry water from home or take up water from nearby sources on a path and eject it over the seeds as well. Lastly, every seed planted can be digitally monitored on a virtual map that family, friends, and community members can see.

“Footprints” reframes the prevalence of personal data tracking and storage, allowing users to reclaim their own data for the purpose of personal storytelling. The shoes record the user's movement with an embedded GPS tracker and a paired mobile app allows the user to attach messages or notes to the path, if desired. With the AR view, users can see the personal footprints trails with the associated message, allowing them to visualize their past movements and experiences in a particular space. Users can choose to make certain paths public, allowing others to visualise historical events and social patterns in a given space. Users can choose their color and text to represent their footprints. These limited customization choices provide users flexibility and remain the minimalism of our product. To ensure privacy, users have the option to either keep the path private or share it with the public.