ILLUMINATING BODIES (Illuminate: to help to clarify and explain; to decorate. Body: the physical structure of a person; a material object)

Workshop Bee

shubush — Sun, 25 Dec 2011 12:10:34 +0000

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An Illustrated Dictionary of Cyborg Anthropology

shubush — Sun, 25 Dec 2011 12:03:40 +0000

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A guide to our digital culture….
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User Preferences: Tech Q&A With Philip Beesley | The Creators …

shubush — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 08:57:47 +0000

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Our studio has invested in digital fabrication equipment that allows us to make a range of prototypes and mechanisms in mixtures of materials. We also work with many specialty contractors that can handle multiple materials …
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Fab Labs and Makerbots: “Turning Consumers into Creators” at our …

shubush — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 08:49:24 +0000

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In the TED talk above, MIT Professor Neil Gershenfeld explains that we need in our schools a ”Fab Lab — a low-cost lab that lets people build things they need using digital and analog tools.
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Haraway_CyborgManifesto.html

shubush — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 21:17:34 +0000

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Why Exercise Makes Us Feel Good

shubush — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 21:15:21 +0000

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A recent study provides some intriguing new clues into how exercise intertwines with emotions, along with the soothing message that it may not require much physical activity to provide lasting emotional resilience.
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The Creepiest Robot Faces You’ve Ever Seen, Courtesy Of “Face Rubber” | Fast Company

shubush — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 21:38:27 +0000

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Robotics designer David Hanson builds intelligent robots with amazingly lifelike human faces that can make eye contact and understand human speech well enough to hold a conversation.
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Philosophy of Science Portal: Minds and Machines

shubush — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 18:42:09 +0000

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This paper argues that even if we managed to enhance humans in one of these ways, we would remain highly vulnerable entities given the fundamentally relational and dependent nature of posthuman existence.
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Amber Case: We are all cyborgs now | Video on TED.com

shubush — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 18:35:12 +0000

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TED Talks Technology is evolving us, says Amber Case, as we become a screen-staring, button-clicking new version of homo sapiens. We now rely on “external brains” (cell phones and computers) to communicate, remember, even live out secondary lives. – Good to revisit this talk
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Dezeen » Empty Memory by Logical Art at The Temporium

shubush — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 16:49:42 +0000

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wearables: jewellery and USB memory sticks
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