Throughout history, the objects we carry have told the story of who we are — keychains, trinkets, charms, talismans. Small windows into private worlds. Our devices, by contrast, are identical. Dense digital museums that look like uniform black boxes.

For its public debut, Era collaborated with 20 artists, designers, and makers — giving each a puck: a minimal, modular AI device with a button, microphone, and speaker. Their only brief: build something that tells the story of the world as you see it, or the future you want to live in.

Each artist designed a custom enclosure — leather, glass, tree bark, woven textile — making every puck a one-of-a-kind object. Then, using Era’s intelligence layer, they shaped how their puck listens, reasons, and speaks: some with playful accents, others as artist aids, some speaking only in invented languages, others drawing on esoteric knowledge bases.

The result is a cornucopia of form and intelligence — 20 unique devices that think, speak, and behave differently. What happens when you give brilliant people the tools to build their own futures? These are the worlds they have bloomed.