my old friend zach nagle sent me this link to an installation at skidmore college by lee boronson similar to the cloud ceiling in sensory decor – beautiful inflated plastic forms like clouds with rays of materialized sunlight poking through.
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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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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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soft power
the future of electricity: flexible solar panels capable of 14 watts, housed in weatherproof transparent plastic. the day this stuff gets woven into coats, we’ll all become walking power plants. still a bit pricy at $399 for 12″x57″, but then you can run an ipod off the sun on your back. via gizmodo
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foof chair
this thing is awesome – i have one in camouflage – instead of polystyrene pellets, it’s filled with shredded foam and it comes in fur and a whole bunch of other finishes. great for use as a stunt mat, temporary bed or romantic couch http://www.poofchairs.com/poof-chairs/XXL.htm target also sells them>
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max air
designing the evolution of walking on air – having finally filling the whole sole with air, nike is getting nostalgic. every air max from the past 20 years is reviewed, and also available as a desktop background (pictured)
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