Konel Unveils ‘Pulse Pack’ Translucent Portable Bag
During Milan Design Week 2026, Konel is launching a translucent wearable bag that converts the wearer’s heartbeat into slow pulses to help them know their current state and calm them down. It’s called the Pulse Pack, the self-calming gadget, which comes from the same company that created the ZZZN puffer jacketit measures the heart rate in real time and responds to the component with a natural pulse of its own, timed at exactly half the frequency of the one it detects. The idea behind it stems from a phenomenon in physiology and psychology that when the body is under stress, the heart rate increases. When a person is calm, he slows down.
What is less well known is that external rhythmic stimuli—or a slow drum roll, a rocking movement, a repetitive vibration—can pull the body’s own rhythm toward them through a process called entrainment. Here, the nervous system synchronizes to a constant external rhythm when that rhythm is slower and more regular than the body’s current state. Konel builds the Pulse Pack wearable bag around this mechanism, which by pulsing at half the wearer’s heart rate, the gadget delivers a slower pace that’s more consistent than what’s already running inside the wearer. The body, over time, tends to follow suit, allowing the user to calm down and relieve their stress on their own.
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The prototype is shown at Milan Design Week 2026
The Pulse Pack portable bag from the creative company Konel has a tactile pulse, or physical vibration, that is felt in the spine and shoulder blades, which are areas of the body that are generally less consciously attended to than the hands or face. The company believes that contact with the back tends to be less intrusive and more grounding than stimulation at the fingertips or wrist, where most current wearables give their haptic feedback.
The sensor that reads the heart rate is also inside the structure of the wearable bag, in contact with the user’s back, so that a separate device is not needed. The system works passively, meaning it reads, calculates and responds without asking the person to do anything other than put the bag on. It’s this hands-free-like quality that Konel strives to achieve. Konel describes this approach as the Good Singularity, a term he uses to frame technology as a tool that can bring balance to everyday life rather than adding to its noise. Visitors to Milan Design Week 2026 can experience the prototype at Via Palermo 11 between April 20 and 26.
called the Pulse Pack, the self-soothing gadget measures heart rate in real time
the object responds with a physical pulse of its own
detailed view of the plan
the accessory wraps around the user’s hand and wrist
the device has a tactile pulse or physical vibration
