Manisha Laroia

TalkTags are social wearable badges or accessories that use inbuilt voice notes to engage people in conversations. The TalkTags are designed such that each tag has a unique pattern that can tag on to another TalkTag. When they are stacked on one another, it activates and the users can switch through different conversation starters to invite a ‘real-world chat’. They were inspired by the mobile phone etiquette of putting phones face down in social settings to indicate that one is eager to hear and engage in a conversation IRL.