Rock-a-Pomo is a Pomodoro timer that starts crying when a work session ends and will not begin the break until the user picks it up with both hands and gently rocks it. A few seconds of appropriately gentle, rhythmic motion gradually fills a soothing meter; once the robot is calm and smiling, the break timer begins.
A single hard shake does not work, and rocking it too violently does not increase the meter either. The enclosure is deliberately large enough to encourage two-handed use so the user has to let go of the keyboard and mouse. It was created by nabekura.
Instead of making a break reminder louder or harder to dismiss, it adds a new task: soothe a crying robot. Taking a break now begins with a tiny piece of simulated childcare.
M5Flick is an input interface that lets users type Japanese by punching a cushion while wearing a red glove. Instead of flicking a phone screen with a finger, the user turns full-body motions into text input, including moves styled after a Shoryuken uppercut.
Creator Hatake / Furukawa built it with M5Stack and UnitV2 hardware, combining text entry with a stress-relief punching interface.
Every bit of typing now requires punching a cushion. Flick input has somehow grown from a fingertip gesture into a full-body sport.
Tongari Shot is a shooting device that actually launches cone-shaped corn snacks worn on a fingertip using compressed air. The results are recorded as a score, turning the snack launcher into a game.
The firing system uses an air compressor and air valves, with an M5Stack Core2 and servo motors among the control hardware. RacoonFactory created it from the idea that the fingertip snack looked as if it could really be fired.
Most people put the snack on a finger and pretend it could shoot. This team added compressed air and completed the thought all the way to a working launcher.
Instead of making a break reminder louder or harder to dismiss, it adds a new task: soothe a crying robot. Taking a break now begins with a tiny piece of simulated childcare.