3D product · Concept brand by Retour Labs

PULS

A pocket breath stone in satin anodised aluminium, shaped like a sea urchin's shell. Hold it, and 870 paired pores glow in time with a slower breath: in for 4, hold for 4, out for 8.

PULS in abyss teal satin anodised aluminium, five bands of amber pores glowing
The commercial · 32 seconds

Breathe.

The film is two breaths, and the edit breathes with it: quick push-ins on the in, one slow orbit on the hold, long pull-outs on the out. Every shot reads the same clock, so the light is one breath across every cut.

01 · The idea

A breath stone × the sea urchin.

A sea urchin's shell is a five-part stone covered in rows of paired pores, and the urchin breathes through them. PULS takes that anatomy literally: five bands of paired micro pores, drilled into dyed aluminium, with the light breathing out where the urchin's breath goes.

4seconds in · the light rises
4seconds held · the light stays
8seconds out · the light falls
02 · Every detail is geometry

Read it up close.

Macro of the paired pores glowing above the seam
870 paired poresØ 0.3 mm, in five bands that open out toward the equator, like the real shell.
The apex disc with five petals of pores and the power dot
The apexFive petals of paired pores round a drilled Ø 1.2 mm power dot.
The base pad with micro text and gold charging contacts
The baseGold charging contacts and the breath, etched: in 4 · hold 4 · out 8.
The upper shell lifted to show the LED ring inside
InsideAn LED ring under a diffuser, a haptic motor and the battery.
03 · Three dyes

Abyss teal, urchin violet, bone.

PULS in abyss teal
P·01 · Abyss tealThe deep water colour of the range.
PULS in urchin violet
P·02 · Urchin violetThe colour of the purple urchin.
PULS in bone
P·03 · BoneQuiet, pale, the colour of a bleached shell.
PULS glowing in the dark
In the darkThe full breath, with the lights off.
04 · The chrome room

A room made of reflections.

An arched niche in brushed chrome, a mirror plinth and a cool LED line in the crown. The stone is the only warm thing in the room, and the chrome multiplies it.

PULS on a chrome plinth in an arched chrome niche
The nicheBrushed chrome walls, lathe polished plinth.
Macro of PULS reflected in the mirror plinth
The plinthThe breath, mirrored.
Urchin violet PULS in the chrome room
VioletSame room, second dye.
Bone PULS in the chrome room
BoneSame room, third dye.
05 · How it was built

123 operations, one stone.

The build log, captured in Blender as it happened: the urchin's five lines at 72°, the profile, a live revolve, the seam and wall, the maps drawn layer by layer, the shader node by node, the breath, the cutaway, the studio and the chrome room.

The build log52 seconds · 13 chapters · 534 captures.
870paired pores, drilled in the maps
16 sone breath: in 4 · hold 4 · out 8
3dyes, each with its own code
123operations in the build log
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