Artifacial by Arthur Elsenaar is a project that uses electricity to manipulate facial expressions. The face is controlled not by the brain, but by computers which deliver small, precise electrical currents that can make the face contort in unexpected ways. While the concept of controlling muscle contractions with electricity is not new, Artifacial uses this…
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Asimo, Humanoid Robot
Honda boasts their robot Asimo as “The World’s Most Advanced Humanoid Robot”. It is able to move about and perform tasks like a human. It was originally designed to assist people in everyday tasks, and is able to and navigate spaces, sidewalks, and stairs. It is also able to walk, run, dance, lift, reach, and…
Speed
Jun Aoki is an architect who wanted to show a heigthed sense of speed. He used 10,000 transparent, polycarbonate pipes to create the feeling that your were up in the clouds with the cars flying by you. I found this to be a remarable thing to try and acconplish. To get the feeling that you’re…
i can see the light
In Germany, the Tübingen and Regensburg universities there is a hospital carring out a study to help the blind. Eberhart Zrenner is the leader of this project. The project involves implanting chips into the eyes of seven people who have lost their sight to a disease called retinitis pigmentosa. Silicon chips to allow machines to…
Project of the future
The Psymbiote Project is a project who’s goal is to in a way transform the human body into more of a hybrid human. This type of art is most interesting because the artist becomes somewhat of a cyborg, and that is what this project is fully trying to accomplish. This body when complete will have…
Hamsters, cyborgs, etc.
The hamster ball: not only safest mode of travel for your pet, but also an interestingly simple vehicle that is easily operated by an animal. But what happens when one takes that basic idea and changes the parameters a little? . Why, you end up with something absurd, like an EEE-PC piloted hamster ball, or…
Scientists developing a “Symbiote” implant for thought
This symbiote, developed by the University of Florida scientists is a computer implant that can think, learn, interpret, and make decisions on its own in order to work with the host to accomplish a common goal most economically. The implant works through tiny electrodes which capture thought signals , and very involved algorithms which interpret…
The Eyeborg, a Device for Colorblind Visual Artists
The Eyeborg was designed by Adam Montandon for his artist friend, Neil Harbisson (pictured here wearing the device). Harbisson was born with a rare hereditary condition of achromatopsia. And one of the effects of this condition is extreme colorblindness, so Neil is only able to see in gray scale. The Eyeborg runs software that recognizes…
Doctors Create Re-Engineered Bladders
A group of scientist have created artificial bladder for the people who have bladder problems. The artificial bladder is supposed to help the patients and reduce the chance of ever getting high urinary pressure and have a life-threatening damage to the kidney. The artificial bladder helps them stay dry for longer but the patients still…
Katana, a moving arm robot
As in the Posthuman article says that”humans may enter into symbiotic relationship with intelligent machines”(372). Katana, is a good example to highlight the wordings of that article. Katana is a moving arm robot, which help people to work with them. It doesnt use the large motor. Instead of large motor Katana uses small motor for…
the el ride home
On the el ride home after class on Friday last week, I took the Red Line home. When I got on, I noticed that there was a picture of original art slid in a slot where the advertisements typically would be. It was a picture of an octopus or squid with a thought bubble coming…