Kyn enables users to utilize any smart device to synchronize interests to a personal wearable, which then scans for surrounding tags and activates color changing pigments if he or she has come across an area relevant to his or her interests. Tags can be placed by individuals and businesses alike as part of a collective effort to support guerrilla data networks.
The goal was to improve data flow amidst increasing urbanization by designing a solution that increases frequency of in-person intercommunication as a way to energize local discovery and communication by incorporating visual indication as wearable technology and tapping into crowd-sourced data-sharing networks.
