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Assembling AgNES, Or How I Read Science Fiction
The new revision of AgNES. Definitely the hardest part about working on Agnes so far was trying to come up with some backronym for the name. But I think I’ve finally found something: A(u)gmented...
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Slapsticks
Slapsticks are a set of chopsticks controlling what and how you eat. Built from stainless, low-carbon steel wrapped in copper-wire Slapsticks’ individual magneticism is controlled by a computersystem...
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Your new Nexus-6 Replicant Is Packaged and Ready to Go.
Flesh Love: Photographs of Vacuum-Wrapped Tokyo Couples.
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Could The Purple Wage Become a Thing of Reality?
Switzerland’s Proposal to Pay People for Being Alive.
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MIT and the First Wearable Computer
Yes, the first wearable computer was made here at MIT and was designed to cheat at a casino. http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/thorp.pdf
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2H2K: LawyeR presentation. “2H2K: LawyeR” is an in-progress project exploring the the future of electronic document discovery and machine learning on the practice of the legal profession. I’m pursuing...
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Why SciFi Gets The Blues.
http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/future-screens-are-mostly-blue/ What they don’t mention but supports their argument is that the material science to create blue phosphors wasn’t economically...
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A Voice To Keep You Sane While Exploring The Depths Of Space
You might remember AgNES, the cute little robot head with one eye that would turn to follow bright colours, modelled as a sort of younger (or older?) sibling to Portal’s GLaDOS. Well, AgNES is evolving...
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W – Microwave of the Future
What is “W”? “W” is a science fiction design concept of a high-end microwave that comes from the not-too-distant future. What does the microwave of the future look like? The W uses a revolutionary user...
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Project LIMBO – Part 2
Recall Project LIMBO, where we proved the concept of mapping one person’s hand grasping to another. We created a circuit that used functional electrical stimulation to cause a person’s hand to...
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Sensory Fiction
Sensory fiction is about new ways of experiencing and creating stories. Traditionally, fiction creates and induces emotions and empathy through words and images. By using a combination of networked...
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LuvLuv: An Experiment in Modern Dating
This book was not our our class reading list, but it was released halfway through the semester and we were inspired by its near-future musings on the state of social media. The Circle, by Dave Eggars,...
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Prosthetics in sci-fi
A familiar plot point in sci-fi movies is the introduction of prosthetics as the artificial organic limbs give the main character a beyond-regular human being presence. Image Source: LucasFilm Ltd....
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Tomorrow’s Yesterday, Today
Over the course of the semester I’ve been iterating on the original idea for AgNES. Originally, it was meant to be an implementation based on Portal’s snarky and evil artificial intelligence, GLaDOS,...
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Ice-9 Spyware: Vonnegut-Inspired Spy Tools
Ice-9 is a polymorph of water that melts at 45.8 ºC, that appears in Kurt Vonnegut’s “Cat’s Cradle”. When it comes into contact with liquid water under 45.8 ºC, it acts as a seed crystal that...
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I am Building E-14
“from cyberspace to space/people interactions” (or: making the building’s brain) This project questions the concept and meaning of CYBERSPACE for understanding its implications to real-space. In a...
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