Students Combine Arts and Science While Exploring "Transhumanism" [Slide Show]
Over the course of four weeks students developed prototypes of devices meant to bridge the gap between human and machine
Students Combine Arts and Science While Exploring "Transhumanism" [Slide Show]
- “Thinking Cap,” by Abubakar Abid, Joshua Bohar and James Hobin. Taking readings from electrodes attached to a person’s head, the brain model shows areas of activity in real time by flashing embedded LED lights. “It’s really weird…giving that brain to other people and having them hold it,” says Ryan Mather, a workshop organizer...
- “Heartbeat,” by Evan Brooks and Alexander Czulak. Worn on an ear, the device detects a heartbeat and can generate the same beat in another such device via a small vibration motor. The creators envision someone offering “their heartbeat as an intimate symbol of trust and vulnerability,” Czulak wrote in an e-mail... Image courtesy Alexander Czulak.
- “The Third Arm,” by Daniel Goodman and Cynthia Xin Liu. Who couldn’t use a third arm? Although we may be a long way from using a robotic arm as naturally as our biological limbs, Liu and Goodman imagine an extra limb handling everything from simple tasks, such as holding an umbrella, to highly specialized ones, like playing the drums...
