Nexus between Silicon and Style™

founded by Sabine Seymour.

MOONDIAL is a think tank and boutique consultancy exploring the intersection of sensors, data, and the body to achieve a regenerative lifestyle.

Since 2007 in Austria. From 1998 - 2019 also in New York. In 2020 SUPA became part of MOONDIAL.

PROJECTS

Toilet Lab: Nuria App and sensor kit with EOOS Next. Movement analysis for freestyle skiing. Security clothing for the UN. Biometric base layers for backcountry snowboarding. Sensorized automobile car seats. Conductive yarns. Wearable soundscape. Fashiontech kits. Wearable sports tech. SUN (photochromic t-shirts) with fashion label Wendy & Jim. ADWEAR (wearable advertising) with technology by Philipps Lumalive.

CLIENTS

Audi, Intel, Johnson Controls, Viscom, DuPont, Siemens, General Electric, BMW, Telekom Austria, E.ON., VFC (North Face).

PRESS VIDEOS

The Verge Future is Now video sponsored by Intel and filmed at our labs at Eyebeam and Parsons School of Design in 2014. T Brand Studio by the New York Times featured in PC Does What sponsored by Dell, HP, Intel, and Lenovo filmed in our office at NewInc in New York in 2016.

FUNDING

FFG Austrian Research Promotion Agency, DuPont, Palm, AWS impulse.

Want to work together? moon@moondial.com

Writing, Talks, and Interviews

Forbes

Opinion piece in Forbes magazine on The Dark Side of Artificial Intelligence in April 2022.

Artificial Intelligence is a technology that enables machines to simulate human behavior, which implies that for its construction programming algorithms, social science and the philosophy of ethics are equally important.

Happy Hour for Datavists™

The article Happy Hour for Datavists™ in the Positive and Mindful Leader Magazine in December 2020 describes the journey of Dr. Seymour of having this crazy idea of using decentralized technology to build a #datacooperative model.

Ars Electronica Festival

Dr. Seymour curated Get.Inspired and was invited to present data cooperatives in Business Models for Online Content as part of the conference realized within Digital Cross Over and co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union in September 2020.

We digitize the body — and humanize technology

Dr. Seymour wrote an Opinion Piece for Wattson (Portuguese) in April 2020. The original English version is on Medium.