Other displays such as Nature’s Chorus and Feast of Light combined Byobu Partitions with speakers and clusters of everyday pendant lights to simulate the weather outside through visual and audio eff ects – the sound of rain, for instance – and also react to viewers’ movements and sounds.
Finally Dreamscape, a kind of audio/visual escape pod, is some sort of nirvana for the couch potato. T e Byobu Bed seamlessly integrates sound and projection elements into a Kvadrat fabric-covered, self-contained sleeping environment. T is womb-like enclosure has an entertainment viewing space at its foot and sound system behind the occupant’s head. ‘When I did the fi rst sketch of this one, I still couldn’t believe how it could be produced and engineered,’ says Tako, although the prototype was achieved in just four months.