chris jordan’s photomontages illustrate american consumerism through statistically generated massive tiled images of the products and processes that feed us. what if they could be automatically generated in real-time from product images already widely circulated?
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sexy decoy
researcher gail patricelli is using a camera-laden decoy female sage grouse to document and understand mating from the female’s point of view. the same idea has been tried with lady coy, in which a decoy woman attracts and documents street harassment. the decoy makes an interesting experimental platform: without the bias of being an observer, […]
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walking tempo
ever since i’m gonna get you sucka i’ve wanted to be followed around by my own soundtrack. last april at CHI ’06 i saw made personal soundtrack by greg elliott and bill tomlinson:an mp3 player that accompanies your life by selecting music beats to match your footsteps. you can also pick music that motivates you […]
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way-finding shoes
frey martin’s cabboots are a ‘tactile’ guidance system that keeps you on the right path by twisting your ankle like when you walk on a worn path in the ground. it could be very useful for guiding the blind, because we probably aren’t so responsive to the texture under our feet anymore.
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eat my words
i guess it’s finally here: pringles prints are one of the first products to take advantage of edible ink to print custom messages on mass-produced food. this idea has its roots with david small‘s research at the medialab’s counterintelligence group in the late 90s. instead of bad jokes, he printed nutritional information and poetry on […]
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pocket spy
in george orwell’s 1984 hidden microphones embodied big brother’s constant surveillance: ’Yes. Look at the trees.’ They were small ashes, which at some time had been cut down and had sprouted up again into a forest of poles, none of them thicker than one’s wrist. ’There’s nothing big enough to hide a mike in. Besides, […]
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touch museum
twice now i have come across touch-based maps for people visiting famous sites to be able to appreciate architectural elements without the use of sight. the miniature of ryoanji temple’s rock garden allows visitors to appreciate the unique and harmonious layout of stones (which is designed so that all are never visible from any one […]
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wearable garden
while recent projects and products encourage agriculture in the home, cranbrook design student jon paananen proposes plants on the body: oxy sak is a proposed breathing apparatus for urban pedestrians (left) while digital boy growth tools (right) encourage children to grow up not only appreciating nature but wearing it. makes me wonder if clothing itself […]
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