The Smart Sign

For this creation I decided to take something that is relevant in our current society and innovate it in a way that will improve this object for the future and hopefully become an tool used to protests for years to come. This creation is an extension onto protest signs that allow for people to display their emotions through colors, lights and sounds on this innovative sign.

The idea for this is to give the people voice form any point of the protest. If you are in the back of the protest, the only point of opinion shown is through a sign you have. But all the viewers can do is read it, they may just here the message but not actually understand your passion.

In terms of functionality this sign changes colors from the CPX based on the rotation of the sign. Here you can use colors such as red to disagree and green to agree. In addition I added a feature of shaking the sign to play a sound as a way of "chanting" and gaining the attention of the viewers.

Obviously this creation is a prototype and can be advanced with better tools and more functionality such as a louder speaker setup, but the idea is there and it creates a future for expressive protesting.