Yesterday was my first Physical Computing class at ITP. In similar ITP fashion, it was of course amazing. Sam Lavigne, Saki Ichikawa and I were tasked with prototyping a fantasy device. We decided to dream up an Infinite Container!

At first, we were struggling with the physical limitations of reality and an infinite container. How big is the container? Is it made of a special fabric that can expand and collapse? Once you place an object inside, how would you find it again?

Then we realized we needed to think of the “container” as a metaphor. We realized we needed to dream up a fantastical technology that could scan and digitize an object, but also regenerate the object again. Voila! Infinite Container!

The Infinite Container is designed to look like any old ho-hum-drum shopping bag (a la Whole Foods) in order to make scanning discrete.

Demonstrated by yours truly!

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