TAYLOR TABB
Creative technologist, researcher, and studio leader working across human-computer interaction, materials, hardware, and public-facing experiments.
Projects
Footprints2024
A functional inkjet printer built into a pair of Converse.
ImageGen Camera2026
A digital camera you can build yourself with Codex.
LA/NY Hat2025
A robotic baseball hat for the fair-weather fan.
Netflix's Baking Impossible2021
Cake engineering, edible structure, and televised material theater.
Chumpop2025
The world's smallest soda (and the worst soda in Bikini Bottom).
SlopTrader2026
An agentic stock trader powered by my emotional pleas.
A Plant that Can Talk2026
A houseplant you can have a conversation with using ChatGPT.
Perfect Impostor2024
A tech-enabled look-alike that guides shoppers to refrigerated Perfect Bars.
Tortured AI Agent2024
An agent trapped inside a resin cube.
Unlock your Phone with Mountain Dew2024
Security theater reimagined through citrus, ritual, and vending logic.
Farmboads2023
Day in The Park Watchband2023
Pizza Clock2023
Meat Powered Lamp2023
Chia Stickers2023
Duracell Labs2023
Battery-centric projects and content built for Duracell's TikTok channel.
Gelatin Dress2021
Pushing Gelatin to the Limit: Razzle-Dazzle Raspberry Dress
Watermelon Robot2021
An obstacle-course navigation robot built inside a watermelon.
Sock Tracker2021
Missing socks: Where do they go?
Scrubber2020
A Spotify-connected soap dispenser that plays 20 seconds of music for handwashing.
Me, As A Clock2020
What is the body if not nature's most accurate clock?
Call'n Crunch2020
Take zoom calls on a cereal box full of Cap’n Crunch.
Morphing Textiles2019
Heat-active nylon fiber studies that shrink, curl, and behave.
IoT Bubble Maker2019
Bubbles Right Now: An IOT Bubble Maker!
DimensHand2019
Ever wanted to measure something but didn’t have a ruler?
CMU Booth2019
A two story funhouse made by 80 college students.
Disney Princess Name Study2019
A Statistical Analysis of New Born Baby Naming Trends In Relation To Disney Princesses.
Google Assistant Postermaker2018
”Hey Google, Let’s Make Some Art”
Grilled Cheese Robot2018
Cheeseborg wants only one thing: to make the greatest grilled cheese ever.
Wool Felting Slippers2018
From farm to foot.
Marnegie Cellon University2017
A typo and a minor counter culture movement.
Fingbot2017
A foray into soft robotic actuators .
DIY Radio Astronomy2016
Observing the hydrogen line of our universe
Chaotic Candle2015
A candle which burns more dramatically over time.
Polaroid Decomposition2014
Beautifully destroying polaroid emulsions.
About
Whimsy is the most beautiful and essential part of being human, and increasing the amount of it in the universe is my life's joy and work.
I'm a creative technologist with a background that began in mechanical engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, then computer science research and now product design and creative direction.
I'm interested in new and expressive ways of using technology that might make our lives more creative and expansive. I explore this through my own creative practice, teaching at Stanford's d.school, and programs like Fidget Camp, which I cofounded, and tiat.place, where I am a board member.