{"id":30,"date":"2005-07-20T14:23:09","date_gmt":"2005-07-20T19:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tigoe.net\/blog\/category\/physical-computing\/30"},"modified":"2026-08-06T13:07:18","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T18:07:18","slug":"sajjadah-1426","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tigoe.com\/blog\/category\/physicalcomputing\/30\/","title":{"rendered":"Sajjadah 1426"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sajjadah 1426 by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonerozenc.com\/\">Soner Ozenc<\/a> is a prayer rug woven with electroluminescent wire that increases its brightness as it&#8217;s pointed more toward Mecca. A compass module built into the rug senses the orientation and changes the brightness of the EL wires. \u00a0I like the idea behind the phone, but at its core, it&#8217;s still software on a generic phone. What&#8217;s interesting about the rug is that it&#8217;s digital hardware for a specific audience. This one&#8217;s got a pretty large potential audience<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.we-make-money-not-art.com\/\">WMMNA<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- technorati tags start --><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right; font-size: 10px;\">Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/art\" rel=\"tag\">art<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/design\" rel=\"tag\">design<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/electronics\" rel=\"tag\">electronics<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/location systems\" rel=\"tag\">location systems<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/networked objects\" rel=\"tag\">networked objects<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/networks\" rel=\"tag\">networks<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/pcomp\" rel=\"tag\">pcomp<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/religion\" rel=\"tag\">religion<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- technorati tags end --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sajjadah 1426 is a prayer rug woven with electroluminescent wire that increases its brightness as it&#8217;s pointed more toward Mecca.  A compass module built into the rug senses the orientation and changes the brightness of the EL wires.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tigoe.com\/blog\/category\/physicalcomputing\/30\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sajjadah 1426<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,10,5,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-performance","category-interactiondesign","category-networks","category-physicalcomputing","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tigoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tigoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tigoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tigoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tigoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tigoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":804,"href":"https:\/\/www.tigoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions\/804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tigoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tigoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tigoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}