life time
We were delighted to continue our longstanding relationship with Luke Jerram when he invited us to develop the technology underpinning his new Life Time work.
from Luke's website:
Created as an object to contemplate, this piece of silver digital jewellery displays how long the wearer has to live. The jewellery automatically takes data from a Death Clock website and presents it on the LED display. As well as telling us our predicted date of death, the jewellery can also show how many days we have left to live.
In the longer term, the plan is to connect Life Time to a sports activity watch, so as to add or subtract time to a persons life expectancy, depending on how much exercise they do. (Any companies interested in developing this project should contact Luke Jerram).
The jewellery currently displays the artists expected date of death. Luke says:
For me, the object is about becoming conscious of the short time we have on this earth and a reminder to make the most of the time we have left.The artwork raises many questions and forces us to consider our philosophies of life and death.
If we were to know exactly how long we had left to live, would we want to know and would we want other people to know? Why is talk of death, in the western world, often a taboo subject? How might people of different cultures and religions feel about this artwork? How might wearing this device effect how we live our life? How accurate can a device like this ever be?
Our solution follows our successful principles of reusing off-the-shelf components and coupling them with web based technologies. The product uses an LED name badge which is charged and programmed using a RaspberryPi. The RaPi uses a WiFi connection to the internet to receive updates via our Glue system whenever a user updates information on their online profile.
More information on Luke's website: www.lukejerram.com/projects/lifetime
