Physical Social Media “Cranky”
When scrolling Instagram I caught myself navigating the UI completely unintentionally, purely off muscle memory. I considered how this could manifest in physical form and quickly 3D printed a prototype. This prototype had an improvised capactitive “finger” made out of a damp sponge and a screw, soldered to a length of wire within the handle to extend the fingers capacitance to the device.
When scrolling Instagram I caught myself navigating the UI completely unintentionally, purely off muscle memory. I considered how this could manifest in physical form and quickly 3D printed a prototype. This prototype had an improvised capactitive “finger” made out of a damp sponge and a screw, soldered to a length of wire within the handle to extend the fingers capacitance to the device.
A playful object, designed to make us consider our daily lives in a different way, Kinekt Design later expressed an interest in developing this concept further. Under its new name “Cranky” a V3 simplified for manufacture has started to take shape below and is expected to be available
from
Kinekt Design in Q2 2025.