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German carpet maker Vorwerk Teppichwerke and semiconductor company Infineon Technologies have developed an intelligent carpet. Sensors in the carpet enable it to control temperature and detect footsteps and trigger lights, or detect prone motionless bodies and call emergency services.
Leave a CommentThis IBM research article describes using the human body as a transmission element in a data network (very personal area networking), and seems to pre-date this Microsoft patent by at least four years.There is more on this topic available at MIT, among others. Olin Shivers’ 1993 presentation on bodyNets is the earliest I’ve found so far.
Leave a CommentNeuroscientists in Montreal, Denmark, and the US have developed a Braille-like tongue display of 144 pixels, that stimulates the visual areas of the brain through the tongue…. It may be impractical now, but it’s an interesting approach to the problem of providing vision replacement or augmentation through technology.More details can be found at this link.Thanks to Howard Rheingold’s Smart mobs blog for the links.
Leave a CommentThe Responsive environments group at MIT has done a number of interesting projects: parasitic power from shoes, various radio-connected sensors, and more.
Leave a CommentThanks to Yosef Birnboim for the link.See also the Trojan Room Coffee Machine, which was the first web cam…. The coff-e-mail project at Texas A&M follows in the spirit of the Trojan Room Coffee Machine.Thanks to Anees Assali for the link.
Leave a CommentFlo Control is a device to train a cat not to bring dead mice in the house, using computer vision technology by Quantum Picture.
Leave a CommentPerry Hoberman has done a number of interesting projects turning the computer and user interface around to make the user part of the system instead of conteoller of it.
Leave a CommentI don’t even particularly like robots, but I love the way this project visualizes invisible information (concentrations of toxins on a given site) using a technology that has been domesticated from military and industrial use into a child’s toy.Howstuffismade. This assignment, given to her design students, has grown into an excellent source of information on how various products are made, including chemical, material, labor, and political issues involved.
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