Dec
24
2008
“The GiveBack Curtain v.2″
by Kennedy and Violich Architecture
Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum
New York, New York 2002
The Giveback Curtain returns light into a space after darkness arrives through phosphorescent dyes and white LEDs. It is part solar shade, part ambient light source, and part information display. The network of LEDs is controlled by a microprocessor capable of displaying any pattern or relevant information.
Images are copyright of Kennedy and Violich Architecture, 2002
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Dec
24
2008
by Deb Todd Wheeler
Montserrat College of Art
Beverly, MA 2002
Utilizing brass, copper, slateboard, microcontrollers, sensors, and LEDs, Deb Todd Wheeler has created a work of five pieces which brings us to the role of investigating the natural world, ultimately making us investigate our own place in that world.
Watch a Quicktime movie of Ludicrum [4.5MB].
Images and video are copyright of Deb Todd Wheeler, 2002
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Dec
24
2008
The Technology Detector is a tool to discover and uncover the technology that pervades our world. Inspired by my friend Rahul Bhargava at Institute of the Future, the Technology Detector means to arm technocrats/technophobes with a means of exploiting/avoiding the technology which is becoming ubiquitous to our world and lives.
The Technology Detector contains sensors to detect high freqency EM fields, such as wireless computer networks, infrared emmitters common to night vision security cameras and automatic toilet flushers, and low frequency EM fields coming from anti-theft protection hardware and RF tag readers. The information from this suite of sensors is displayed on the front panel through indicator LEDs and a Collective Technology Meter.
Watch a Quicktime movie of the Technology Detector in use at MIT’s Media Laboratory [5MB].
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