while we may think that we choose our political candidate for rational reasons, a study from emory university shows that the parts of the brain involved when watching candidates on television have nothing to do with rational thought, and are instead those that control emotions and reward conflict resolution. while watching their candidates and opponents […]
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magnet finger
body artists jesse jarrell and steve haworth came up with the idea to implant magnets under the skin to hold innovative piercings without success – until they noticed that the implants generated a sense of magnetic and electric fields through the induced motion as interpreted by the finger’s touch receptors. you can feel power lines, […]
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mirror interfaces
we anthropomorphize a lot of things, from pets to machines – it turns out that we think computer-generated voices have a personality. and the more the computer sounds like us, the more we like it: stanford researchers conducted an experiment in which introverts and extroverts listened to synthetically generated book reviews and were more likely […]
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baby graphics
speaking of simplicity i read in yesterday’s new york times about the first neo-natal channel and was inspired by how successful these simple graphic concepts are for babies and adults alike: watching a drawing being made by subtraction and addition, the simple parallax of a mobile or the put put of a car.
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sensory decor
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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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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