Project: Advanced Prototyping in Design
Authors: Martina Frantzén, Varut Rintanalert and Vanja Valencak
Sponsor: NOKIA
Aalto University, 2012
The idea for the Thief concept originally came from the curiosity we have about other people’s music taste. Thief allows sharing and discovering new music through connecting with other users that owns a pair of Thief headphones.
These headphones have 3 modes, one for sharing, one for listening to other people’s music and the last one is private, this means that you don’t wish to share your music. These modes are indicated through different light colors. The sharing mode uses green, receiving mode is indicated with a blue light and during private mode the lights are off. When you connect to a person and when you check the source the light on that person’s headphones will blink. By using the different buttons on the headphones you can go through songs, modes and switch between users.
The Thief headphones provide an easy, fun and new way of sharing, discovering and connecting with other music listeners.
Vanja Valenčak 