electronic smell sensors are being developed by the jpl and a company called znose. since smell is made of parts per billion of air, these have the potential to detect physical compounds that no other sensor can. they are in use to check food for spoilage and luggage for explosives. in the works are systems […]
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character depth
the national research center of canada produced the most in-depth imaging study to date of leonardo’s gioconda via meiver
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cuddling with music
music for bodies makes sonic bed, an installation where visitors can experience sound not only through their ears but also through the rest of their bodies by laying in a multi-user bed and feeling the vibrations. the music is composed especially for this synesthetic experience using max MSB. One way to evaluate their work is […]
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pain game
eddo stern makes video games that criticize our fascination with violence imperialism and the way they indoctrinate us for a life spent working in front of a screen – these images are from a fight game custom controllers that induce painful electric shocks. via chris csikszentmihalyi
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tickle me
tickle salon by driessens & verstappen uses a curtain poof suspended from a four fishing lines to tickle while at the same time producing a three-dimensional image of the user’s body
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foresight
yesterday at siggraph 2006 in boston i tried on the forehead retina system, a headband with a grid of 512 electrodes that stiimulate the skin on the forehead through a conductive gel pad with the ‘image’ captured through a video camera mounted on a pair of sunglasses. the idea is to provide sight to those […]
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brain vision
researchers are beginning to use fMRI for bio-feedback to treat psychological problems such as addiction, pain and depression. by watching a real-time scan of the areas of the brain rich with oxygen, you can get understand your own thought processes and possibly even control them. recent findings about mental plasticity suggest that repeating such exercises […]
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web of light
this beautiful thing is an omni-directional light sensor made of light-sensitive fibers by yael fink’s team at MIT. via mit
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