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Embedded Camera-Eye
By cdharris at July 10, 2011 | 2:42 pm | 0 Comment
After losing an eye in a car accident, Tanya Vlach is trying to raise money to have a webcam fashioned like an eye installed in the non-functional eye socket. The prosthetic camera-eye is designed to be waterproof, capable of wireless HD video transmission at 720p, and will include zoom and still-capture features, activated by blinking. On Vlach's wishlist for the eye -- more...
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BMW Puts Its Logo On The Back of Eyelids
By cdharris at January 2, 2011 | 5:49 pm | 0 Comment
"Persistence of vision" is a phenomenon that allows our eyes to experience a continuous moving picture when confronted with a series of still images or frames that pass by in a fast sequence.?? Recently,? experiments on "closed eye visualization" have been used for advertising purposes,? as when BMW's Dutch ad group flashed the BMW logo in a dark movie theater,? then more...
We’re watching
By cdharris at October 18, 2008 | 1:23 pm | 0 Comment
A Canadian company has developed a technology called Eyebox2 that it says can monitor the gaze of passersby and respond to shifts in attention, even tracking multiple people at once, and even from more than 30 feet away.The company says the advertising potential is large, wherein outdoor or unconventional ad space could be sold "by the eyeball." In more...
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Biometric + Digital Art at Venice Biennale
By cdharris at June 1, 2007 | 3:24 pm | 0 Comment
Didn't make it to the Venice Biennale, but if I were there, I wouldn't want to miss the installation by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer called "Pulse Room." 100 lightbulbs are connected to EKG sensors and thus are "controlled by the heartbeat of the public." The exhibit runs from June 10 - November 21 (2007) in the Palazzo Van more...
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Imagining an entirely re-made human….
By cdharris at July 19, 2006 | 6:57 pm | 0 Comment
What has six limbs, a prehensile tail, its brain in its chest, and reproductive organs in its mouth? The alternate human designed by biologist PZ Myers in Remaking Humanity, a story in Forbes.com's?series on Reinvention. It may sound like pure science fiction, but researchers are already working to re-build DNA, proteins and cells in a new field called synthetic biology, more...
Getting Tagged
By cdharris at February 18, 2006 | 6:04 am | 0 Comment
RFID implants in humans are no longer mere science fiction. At least 30 individuals have received RFID chip implants and have even established an online forum to discuss the philosophical implications... and the methods associated with implantation. Uses of the implants vary from controlling locks on home and automobile entrances to security for computer equipment, more...
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News is pain
By cdharris at January 19, 2006 | 1:35 pm | 0 Comment
Sure,? hearing the news can be depressing.?? But can it cause real pain????In an interesting art and technology project,? live news stories containing certain keywords sends an electrical charge through a type of electrode affixed to the viewer's skin, on any part of the body. The level of the pain felt is intended to correspond to the type of news story being more...
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Your Skin as RFID transmitter
By cdharris at January 17, 2006 | 2:27 pm | 0 Comment
A German company,?Skinplex, has developed a method for small amounts of data to be transmitted via human skin. Like RFID, when the transponder (in this case, the human body) and receiver come within range, data is wirelessly passed from one to the other.? Skinplex claims that the?technology is "completely safe," and?half the cost of conventional RFID more...
Spoofing Biometrics
By cdharris at January 17, 2006 | 2:18 pm | 0 Comment
Researchers have spoofed biometric readers using materials as simple as scotch tape and saran wrap.? Recently,? yet another team reported a 90% success rate in fooling biometric fingerprint readers using just Play-Doh. They also reported getting similar results using fingers from cadavers.?? The problem is that biometric scans look for visual?patterns made known to the more...
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Think away your pain with fMRI
By cdharris at January 11, 2006 | 4:12 pm | 0 Comment
fMRI is being used in many unexpected venues these days, from lie detection to testing ads.? This imaging technology appears to also provide biofeedback potential that is promising on several fronts,? including the ability to manage chronic pain. A study from researchers at Stanford University and Omneuron suggests that it is possible to control chronic pain by more...
Portable Brain Scanner
By cdharris at January 4, 2006 | 5:47 pm | 0 Comment
Developed at the University College in London, the MONSTIR is a prototype of a "portable brain scanner."? It uses optical tomography to generate images showing brain activity. Light passes through body tissue and is then analysed by an associated computer.? MONSTIR currently takes around 8 minutes to generate an image.? Presumably it takes a lot longer when working with more...
DNA patenting in 2005
By cdharris at January 4, 2006 | 5:15 pm | 0 Comment
Companies are continuing to apply for -- and receive -- patents on DNA sequences of nucleotides so they can license the rights to other companies that use the sequences to develop drugs or diagnostic tests. Commercial entities that hold these patents own the intellectual property rights to your body: nearly 20% of you, in fact. A new study from more...
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