This trippy AI gadget turns your dreams into videos — yes, really
What if you could literally watch your dreams after waking up? That’s the bold promise of the Dream Recorder — a brand-new gadget that’s blown up online for turning your late-night subconscious chaos into trippy low-res videos using AI.
The Dream Recorder is the latest invention from Modem Works, announced on June 17, 2025, and it’s already causing a stir. It’s a compact, glow-in-the-dark device that doesn’t even need a phone or app to function. You can 3D print the whole thing at home and set it up using open-source code. Very DIY, very cyberpunk.
Once you wake up, you just speak your dream into it, and the AI does its thing — generating a lo-fi video that looks like a blurry, morphing DALL-E mini slideshow. Think dream vibes with VHS energy. The Recorder saves up to seven dream videos, basically giving you a week’s worth of weirdness to rewatch.
The Dream Recorder is going viral, and people have feelings. One user loved that it’s “ultra-low definition on purpose,” while others are already asking questions about ethics and nightmares. Modem’s reply? “Let your subconscious speak.”
It’s unclear how accurate or useful the dream reconstructions really are, but the whole vibe is less clinical neuroscience, more creative chaos — and maybe that’s the point. You're not getting Christopher Nolan-level dreamscapes, but more like surreal, impressionistic moodboards from your own brain.
Modem also made the Terra, another pocket-sized device aimed at wanderers and daydreamers. It acts like a minimalist compass-slash-GPS that uses AI to interpret what kind of place you want to go, based on vibes, time, and your location. It then generates a custom trail using GPS coordinates — ideal if you’re the kind of person who wants to “get lost” on purpose but not too lost.
Like the Dream Recorder, Terra is also 3D printable and open-source. It gives gentle haptic nudges as you move — think smart rock you carry in your pocket.
Both gadgets sit at the intersection of art, AI, and digital minimalism — and we’re here for the chaotic creativity.
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