with all of the products and concepts that exist around a single technology (in this case USB memory sticks) it seems that we are heading towards a place where design for the masses may not be necessary any more and each object can become a unique expression of the individual
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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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stitch sculpture
mexican sculptor javier marin makes beautiful deconstructed figural statues in the classical tradition – this is a tower representing human suffering in plaza juarez, mexico city via maman
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visualizing hatred
a number of stunning visualizations portray the violence our government inflicts on the world: john maeda’s text visualization of 400,000 dead in darfur, obleek.com’s animation of deaths in iraq over space and time, cryptome.org’s graphs of american dead in iraq, the recent new york times graphic of mideast tensions, and visualisation of relative israeli UN […]
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torture paintings
fernando botero’s obese style of figurative painting was often humorous and whimsical, but that changed when he chose to depict the torture at abu ghraib. now the subjects’ fatness seems to add to the already extreme obscenity of these scenes see the paintings
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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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