Week 3 - Forming the idea

We met this week in order to decide on the concept of our idea we have in mind a device that all the phones are connected to and when a message/call is received something is happening. The problem is what does it do? Noa Morag (one of the media lab mentors) gave us an advice and told us to focus on a specific time (during the meal/after) in the meantime we had two main ideas about the device features:

1) Make the device a game of/test of courage, "How long can your phone survive? Every phone represent a family member and every time you receive a message a life is being taken from you and a scary music is being played, in addition to that another kind of game that we thought of was a board game and every time you receive a message something in the game changes.

2) A second concept was to make the device to charge your phones, it is not a main idea but the family members or the people who are in the device area will want to place their phones inside (everyone wants their phones charged).

There is a lot to think about, and a lot more to be done, we still have to answer the main problem: what the device will do and why would the family members or anyone in general would want to place their precious phone there?