Harry Colbert

Capturing our experiences is often disruptive. Phone cameras promote perfectionism and a lack of intentionality, larger cameras require cognitive overland and turn their user into a documentarian rather than a participant in their own experiences. Iris looks to capture moments with authenticity and emotional depth, capturing not just the visuals, but ambient light, spatial audio, temperature and haptic detail of our experiences, triggered by a single intuitive click. This data is accessed later through a dedicated playback device kept at home, which reactivates the full sensory memory, replaying sound, temperature, visuals and tactility. The user once again feels the warmth of the mountain top sun on their hands, or the low-end bass from a festival speaker. The goal isn’t content for editing or social media, but for personal reflection and memory. Iris promotes intentional capture and delayed gratification, creating a more authentic and less disruptive way of remembering our experiences.