Future Facility has created a conceptual artificial intelligence device that aims to provide a "calmer" relationship with technology for ASUS Zenbook and Dezeen's Design You Can Feel exhibition, which opens tomorrow at London Design Festival.
Called SUSA, the small conceptual electronic device can perform many of the functions of a smartphone, tablet or portable computer.
However, it deliberately suppresses intrusive entertainment and social media by placing its screen behind a tactile perforated surface.
By doing so, London studio Future Facility ? which is a research-focussed offshoot of the design studio Industrial Facility run by Sam Hecht and Kim Colin and led by Leo Leitner ? aims to shift the user's attention away from the screen and toward the physical object itself, to create an example of what the designers call "calm technology". Future Facility created SUSA for ASUS and Dezeen's Design You Can Feel exhibition
The case of the device is crafted entirely from Ceraluminum, a proprietary material developed by technology company ASUS for its Zenbook laptops, which merges the lightness of aluminium with the durability of ceramics.
ASUS has invested years into fine-tuning Ceraluminum, which is created by treating aluminium in a process similar to anodisation, but which eliminates volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and heavy metals and results in a 100-per-cent-recyclable material.

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