S.T.A.R. Watch

Space Time Asynchronous Relay Watch
Yale CCAM - MIT Space Exploration Initiative
2023

Individual Project

When the answer to

"how many kilometers"

no longer means anything,

so we ask instead:

"how many seconds?"

What’s it like to miss someone across vast time and space?

I imagine the future of deep space travel, communication delay, and the reality of talking to loved ones.

I'm making a time keeping and space keeping system, a pair of devices for a pair of loved ones, that accompanies each person on his/her/their journey into deep space.

The devices, each a semi-sphere, sync to each other at the moment of departure, and keep track of/present the distance/latency through the size of the aperture diaphragm, like a pocket watch

When a call is initiated, the diaphragm open and close to pace conversation through a choreographed cycle of speaking / listening coordinated with transmission delay.