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“Robots can be said to have their own culture precisely because they don’t need to copy our sociologisms in order to be social, although what they do in their own social realm may not easily map on to things we do in our social realm”
— Stuart Geiger - The ethnography of robots
(Source: berglondon.com)
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“Quite naturally, most of us don’t think of products or services as being alive and animate. But there are a lot of benefits to imagining a product as a friend rather than an instrument. By pretending that a product has come to life, we can personalize and evolve its features in a way that is not accessible to us when we think of it as inanimate.”
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Talking Tree is a project by EOS, a science and nature magazine from Belgium. A hundred year old tree in Brussels has been fitted with a complex system of cameras, sensors and solar panels that are monitoring its activities and translating them into words.
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A project by Breakfast NY.
Join Precious (the bike) and Janeen (the rider) as they put aside their differences and attempt to raise a gob-load of money for LIVESTRONG as part of Team Fatty.
Starting at the Atlantic and ending at the Pacific, Precious (the bike) will spend 3 months riding across the country sharing his thoughts, experiences, body temperature and much more. Fitted with a brain of wires, circuits and whole lot of code, he’ll use his new silicon senses to share what it feels like to have a sweaty chain while riding up the side of the Rockies. He’ll even share his subconscious dreams from time to time, which can get a little, well, bike-freaky. Visit the site or follow him on Twitter.
yesiamprecious.com (via Spime)
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Kinetic Memory Triggers is a series of five anthropomorphic kinetic sculptures. With technology, objects can be given ‘life’ by appearing receptive and responsive to their users. By mapping anthropomorphic behaviors onto inanimate objects, we can create ‘beings’ perceived as being alive and having human qualities.
