Piggy Bank Brainstorm

Your dream is a creature that you have to feed. The creature is actually a part of yourself. For the bank to say thanks makes it feel like a separate entity. It is better for it to feel like a separate entity or yourself. Perhaps the bank could give a sense of accomplishment. What about it being a pet. You take your dog for a walk and it wags it's tail. You pet you cat and it purrs. These are a kind of small thank you that you put the effort in. Some kind of friendship. The friendship however cannot be fake. And it cannot be clear that the thing is supposed to manipulate you like this. To create a true emotional attachment it cannot be forced, it has to grow organically from a series of positive experiences. With humans this kind of purr is a smile or a giggle. So what you it be for an inanimate object? A giggle is to say you are on the same page, we know what we're both doing together, and we're enjoying it. how would an object giggle? t could say yay. It could make you laugh with it. It could make you smile. Because you are the one who should be thanked, and thankful. It kind of being thankful to yourself for taking good care of yourself. Smiling is contagious. If a smile can induce a smile, it could be said that the thing that induces a smile is also a smile.

A smile

The thing just has to smile. How should it smile? It should be a physical act, and not a picture or representation to make it more emotional. In addition to make it personal, something that everyone can have but can be still taken as their own, it should have a personality. It could be moody, it could be that if you don't give it a coin for a couple of days that it is even more appreciative to have one. But if it smiles even bigger this might be incentive to not put coins in for a while. Why is a purr so nice? Maybe because the thing is soft and cuddly, and when it purrs it gently rumbles a fitting but somewhat surprising action. Why is a tail wag so nice? The speed and intensity can tell you a about its feelings. It can be funny, when it wags it's tail so hard that it's whole body wags too.

Is this too literal to be object love? When it seems to fake or forced it doesn't work. The ipod has the hardware which is standard, and the software which is personalized. This might be playing too much with robotics like the furby or something.

What if it did it's kind of smile every once in a while, just to get your attention.