Iwai comments on BBKY’s illustrations. “Her illustrations give those who see and use them room to use their imaginations.” Like he says, those illustrations make us imagine the technology proposed with their cuteness. The ideas that come from technology are visualized by BBKY’s illustrations show us vague parts in our mind, rather than forcing upon us a point of view that was concluded by the illustrations.

The next one is a box with drowsy eyes. The cubit robot ‘Cubie’. Today we have not only working robots but also other ‘pet’ robots. The idea of this ‘Cubie’ came from an irony that those pet robots could be the same as ordinary toys and they would be covered with dust. It’s box shaped and you don’t have to put it back on another box. Basically, it’s ‘sleeping’ and you only have to ‘wake it up’ when you want to play with it to save energy. Also, it’s nature-friendly as the box is made from paper.

Next to Cubie, a small device resembling a mini-disc player and a headphone are put on a table. Visitors are guided to put the headphone on their head and light the player with three installed desk lamps. Following the guide, sounds are heard through the headphone. Lighting the player from different angles, creates music. This is an audio lens that makes sound reacting to lights. “It’s really interesting to be in a night train with this device as it makes different sounds and shapes”, Iwai says. “It’s a magic player using the street lights as a source, without tapes and MDs”.

On another wall is installed a number of WonderSwan, a portable game terminal. Each monitor has different characters such as a chair or donut (personified by BBKY) awaiting visitors with a hungry look. It’s ‘Fingertip Dance’ that makes those characters dance using fingertips on control buttons. One of the WonderSwans is connected to a headphone, and on the monitor you can see a 16×16 grid where you can place dots on the grid and compose music. Characters on the right and left hand of the monitor dance to the music you compose.

Like all of them, this is exhibition proved that general technologies around us like mobile phone, portable games, mini disk or a pet robot could create more happiness by using our imaginations.

The collaboration between Iwai and BBKY started when BBKY illustrated the report of the live performance of Ryuichi Sakamoto and Iwai. Since then, Iwai has been interested in her illustrations. In those days, he was interested in working with illustrations that have a feeling of handwriting, rather than so-called CGs. Then Iwai and BBKY realized that they had something in common in thinking and taste, and started their collaborations.