Last week, there was a very pertinent article in the NYT: Researchers Look to Create a Synthesis of Art and Science for the 21st Century by John Malkoff. The article's take is the fact that artists will be central to the future of computing technology. It exemplifies this thesis through different e...
Objects that blog!
Tonight I had an interesting debate with Julian about the notion of 'objects that blog' (he calls them blogject), that is to say artifacts that would upload their story up to web. Thy would report the history of interactions the object had with people. It's something very intriguing and close to Br...
Spam a selection of search engines with fake web searches
Ghostwriter is an interesting application developed by Sebastian Campion: Ghostwriter is a browser-application that can be used to spam a selection of search engines with fake web searches. The search engines are being monitored by keyword marketing companies that collect data about search trends f...
Real World Google Maps!
Via guerilla-innovation, this hilarious project by Julian Gallo, a 'new media' researcher from Buenos Aires: Google Maps en el mundo real (a real-world version of google maps): Pictures taken from the auhtor's Zoto account: 1 and 2> ...
Locate and destroy RFID
What an interesting device! RFID washer: "RFIDwasher finds RFID tags and “electronically washes” it, thus protecting your privacy. (...) It disables the tag using patented prioprietary technology (...) it is designed to destroy all tags that you will find on everyday objects – these are known as...
An impressive mecha
This mecha is very impressive, it's taken from the last issue of IEEE Spectrum in which there is an article about the rise of exo-skeletons: The colossal, 5.5-meter-high, 1360-kilogram Mecha exoskeleton sits in Carlos Owens's backyard in Wasilla, Alaska, its legs locked into position to prevent the...
Good paper about the rise of exo-skeletons
A very good review of the existing exo-skeletons in the IEEE Spectrum: The Rise of the Body Bots by: Erico Guizzo and Harry Goldstein: Today, in Japan and the United States, engineers are finally putting some practical exoskeletons through their paces outside of laboratories (...) At long last, exo...
Simon effect: location and decisions
The Simon Effect is one of those interesting cognitive phenomenon. Here's the definition by CogLab: The Simon effect refers to the finding that people are faster and more accurate responding to stimuli that occur in the same relative location as the response, even though the location information is...
A knitted digestive system
Wow, the webhead mailing list is terrific today: this knitted digestive system is tremendously odd! ...
Agent Modeling in Marketing
A curious article in Forbes about using a SimCity-like simulation as an inspiration for the next Coca-Cola or Unilever marketing campaign: William Bean, a research director at Pepsi-Cola North America, is fascinated by vending machine use in a mythical suburban office. There 35 sales, technology an...