many companies offer therapeutic products to create soothing, richly textured sensory rooms – tfh combines the typical with a handy graph that evaluates the senses and skills targeted by each device – including from top to bottom a cloud ceiling, a sound sensitive bubble column, a school age corner colossus and interactive musical squares. while […]
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sleep cycle
turns out modern sleep is an anomaly: when given only natural light, humans tend to sleep in a burst of five hours, then wake up for one or two, and fall asleep again for two or three hours. many people who take sleeping aids are trying to combat this kind of sleep, even though these […]
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remote petting 2.0
soon after we learned how to tele-pet a chicken, telepresence is here: on december 29, 2005 mark kroll’s domestic animal telephone was patented – a remote love machine. it allows owners to call their pets, see them through a screen and even deliver affection by becoming warm or dispensing treats. seems like harry harlow‘s dream […]
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molecular seats
feel seating is made of stitched-together upholstered foam balls that can be configured in a variety of ways.
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sensory room
sensory therapy is a field that has only existed since the 1960s – an attempt to provide calming therapy to people suffering from many kinds of anxiety, related to learning disabilities, hyperactivity, depression, autism, dementia, sleep disorders – you name it. it seeks to provide balanced stimulus of the senses to ground the mind. recently, […]
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nice gait
these resources have been amassed by lorelei pepi my animation prof and they are a rich source for learning about motion: an early attempt to observe motion through chronophotography by Jules-Etienne Marey biomotionlab offers a simple demo showing how we walk differently based on size, sex, mood and nervousness – useful for motion capture and […]
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heavy blankets
therapro makes sensory therapy products, including the very effective heavy blanket – it makes me fall asleep instantly – and this cooperative blanket, all targeted at soothing social anxieties by stimulating the touch sense.
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yummm… sweaty t-shirt
another hint that smell is the sense of the future: a study showing that men and women are attracted to partners with an opposing/complementary MHC (Major Histocompatibility Complex) which is an immuno-defense that makes us reject foreign organs, for example. it also works for smell: in a study where women were asked to rank sweaty […]
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