Induction coil
Sixty-two turns on ferrite. It drinks power from the Wave, through the skin, without a single wire.
Dream Deck X
Placed once. Yours for life.
A capsule the size of a grain of rice, under the skin of your forearm.
Dream Deck X has no battery, no wires and nothing to charge. It takes its power and your records from the Wave, through your skin. Zirconia and bioglass, sealed with titanium and gold: materials the body leaves alone.
2.1 × 16 mmSize
62Turns of copper
NoneBattery
YoursLifetime
Dream Deck X, opened
D1
The smallest computer you will ever own.
Two millimetres across, inside every Deck. It turns a record into the language of your nerve, and listens back while you dream. It never needs charging.
2 mmacross, the whole processor board
3.1 Btransistors on the D1
40 Hzbursts to the nerve while a record plays
13.56 MHzthe carrier it listens to, through your skin
Magnesium antenna
Four turns printed on silk, in the Wave. It finds the Deck by itself, and leaves with your skin.
Dream Wave X.3
Thinner than skin.
A film over the Deck. It runs on you, and after a month it leaves with your skin.
The Wave tunes in to the record you choose, like a radio to a station, and passes it to the Deck without a single wire. It takes its power from your sweat and stays on through showers and sleep. After about a month it dissolves, as your skin renews itself. Silk, magnesium and a speck of silicon: nothing is left behind.
31 mmAcross, 0.03 mm thin
A monthOn your forearm
SweatPower
NothingLeft behind
Dream Wave X.3, opened
Every Wave.
Your Deck never changes. Your Wave does. Each one needs less to do more.
Dream Wave X.1
2020A ceramic pebble, five millimetres thin, with a battery inside. Fourteen days.
Dream Wave X.2
2022Thinner, with a ring of light at the seam. Touch, taste and smell arrive. Fourteen days.
Dream Wave X.3
2025A film thinner than skin. Every dream is saved. A month, then nothing.
Wave Stamp
2020 to 2025 · RetiredUntil X.3, every Wave came loaded in a Stamp. You rested it on your forearm, it found the Deck on its own, and the ring glowed when the Wave was aligned. X.3 needs only your hand.
Two instruments. Two rituals.
The Deck is placed once, in public, in thirty seconds. The Wave you put on yourself, at home, about once a month.
Deck Pen
Once in a lifetime.
- Walk into any placement center. There is one in every mall on Earth.
- A technician cleans your inner forearm and shows you the Deck inside the chamber.
- One press. The Deck settles beside the nerve. Most people feel a cold point, and nothing else.
Dream Wave X.3
About once a month.
- The old Wave is already gone. It left with your skin; the Deck stays where it is.
- Peel the new Wave from its liner and lay it on your forearm, over the Deck.
- Press for a few seconds. One pulse tells you it found the Deck, and your records are waiting.
Why a month.
01
Your skin renews itself.
About every four weeks. The Wave leaves with it, and dissolves. A month is as long as anything should stay on your skin.
02
Tuned to you.
Every new Wave arrives calibrated with what Paula learned from your last month of dreams.
03
Nothing is left.
No battery to return, nothing to recycle. Silk, magnesium and silicon dissolve. Your dreams were never in it: they travel live.
With Dream Bot Z.2, it happens while you sleep. Dream Bot
Three objects. One system.
Pen, Deck and Wave. Everything you need to dream, for the rest of your life.
Tech specs
Dream Deck XDream Wave X.3Size
2.1 × 16 mm
About a grain of rice
31 mm across, 0.03 mm thin
About a coin, thinner than skin
Weight
0.11 g
0.03 g
Materials
Zirconia cap
Bioglass sleeve and tail
Titanium seam, brazed in gold
Silk, patterned and sealed
Magnesium circuit and antenna
Silicon chip, thinner than a hair
Power
No battery
Powered through the skin by the Wave
Sweat cell, magnesium and molybdenum
It runs on you, and powers the Deck
Signal
Induction coil, 62 turns on ferrite
Emitter on the processor board
Magnesium antenna, four turns
Finds the Deck by itself
Interface
None needed
Turn your wrist to tune
Records change like stations on a dial. Close your eyes in the dream to wake.
Wear
Under the skin of the inner forearm, beside the nerve
On the skin, over the Deck
Through showers and sleep, for about a month
Placement
Deck Pen, once
At any placement center, in thirty seconds
By hand, about once a month
At home, in a few seconds
Afterwards
Stays for life
Dissolves with your skin
Nothing to return. Nothing left behind.
Records
X.1, X.2 and X.3
X.1, X.2 and X.3