Modern tools of communication have no longer the same relation with the body as the tools used before the digital era. We passed from a society where the implication of the body was of primary importance, to a technological society where it is not the rule anymore. Assistance, in many ways, minimizes the relation with traditional objects and, according to psychiatrists, generates a loss of perception of our body. This loss is characterized by a disappointment towards the technological object. While preserving the assets of the virtual world and of the great progress in miniaturization, it is time to give back these objects the body dimension they had lost, in order to reconcile some of us with the future of communicating objects.

Thierry Labaye’s answer is made of three objects, corresponding to different needs, associated with different periods.
Personalization (2008): Janus is an interface which looks like a mere paper sheet, foldable and indestructible. It automatically adapts to your needs: put it in front of a TV set or a CD player, it becomes its remote, of which you can modify the interface at will.
Faithful (2012): Animoys are intelligent jewels that behave like pets. Attentive to your attitude, they can anticipate on your needs and help you when you ask. Sounds, scanners, retina projection, they can provide a whole range of services.
Appropriation (2040): As they grow closer to our bodies, future interfaces will finally merge with our skin. It is on this radical hypothesis that Thierry has imagined all possibilities for this concept. Once his skin is changed into both screen and keyboard, man will be able to tattoo for an evening only, naturally and finally use his palm like a Palm Pilot and play a few notes or surf on the Internet. A doctor will be able to check directly on our body the state of our organs, and a teacher give anatomy lessons. With his last product, entitled WYSIWIL (What You See Is What You Live), the distance between him and his creations will definitely be abolished.