Unknown - Hexapod Robot CNC Router
Incredible robotic creation device. Just imagine if we had swarms of synced devices.
Archive for November, 2008
Cati Vaucelle - Low cost wearable sensor for detecting Electromagnetic fields
We present the design of a cost-effective wearable sensor to detect and indicate the strength and other characteristics of the electric field emanating from a laptop display. Our bracelet can provide an immediate awareness of electric fields radiated from an object used frequently. Our technology thus supports awareness of ambient background emanation beyond human perception. We discuss how detection of such radiation might help to “fingerprint” devices and aid in applications that require determination of indoor location.
see website here
Vicente Guallart - Hyperhabitat
Hyperhabitat is a research project initiated at IaaC in 2005, directed by Vicente Guallart, with input from Daniel Ibáñez and Rodrigo Rubio.
Its purpose is to develop a new approach to the organization of the habitability of the world on the basis of information technology.
The first objective has been to establish whether the physical world can have a structure similar to the digital world. In effect, if a network is made up of nodes, connections, an environment and protocols that relate its content, in the case of the physical world, the world can be understood as a superposing of natural environments, the networks that crisscross it and functional nodes.
The years 2006 and 2007 have been spent working on nodes and networks, and the work on environments and protocols will begin in the near future
see website here
David Bowen - Fly Drawing Device
This installation produces drawings based on the subtle movements of houseflies. When flies enter a small chamber sensors detect their movements. A micro-controller articulates a drawing arm in real time based on the fly’s movements. When a fly is no longer detected in the chamber the paper scrolls over and the device waits until a new fly enters the chamber to begin another drawing.
also see, growth rendering device
many great projects, see website here
CNN - Hologram
While CNN is touting its special effects from election night as a ‘”hologram,” that may not be technically the case. CNN’s “hologram” seems to have been done using overlay images and a green screen to virtually put the reporter in the same studio as Wolf Blitzer. But true holography uses a different technique to create a true 3D image of a person standing in the studio. According to Wikipedia, “holography is a technique that allows the light scattered from an object to be recorded and later reconstructed so that it appears as if the object is in the same position relative to the recording medium as it was when recorded. The image changes as the position and orientation of the viewing system changes in exactly the same way as if the object was still present, thus making the recorded image or hologram appear three-dimensional.”
True holography technology has been demonstrated by many other companies. Telstra, the Australian phone company, used a hologram earlier this year to beam its chief technology officer from Melbourne to a business meeting about 460 miles away in Adelaide. Cisco Systems has also used holograms in demonstrations to talk about its telepresence products. Cisco’s telepresence solution does not transmit hologram images, but it does use high-definition cameras and TV screens to make executives in different locations feel like they are having an in-person meeting.
another interesting article
