Archive for April, 2010
Adaptation, Part III: Art as Research (Braille tattoos! Socially-adept handbags!)
Read Part I of this essay here, and Part II here. New media art self-consciously reworks technology into culture, and rereads technology as culture. What’s more, it does so in a concrete, applied way; it manipulates the technology itself, with a nonindustrial latitude that admits misapplication and adaptation, rewiring and hacking, pseudofunctionality and accident. New [...]
read more$3 device speeds up healing process
via Inhabitat, this device uses negative pressure to suction air from open wounds, speeding up the healing process. This MIT researcher has distributed it in Haiti; she’s working on a pocket-size version and headed to Rwanda next.
read moreAction Trackchair
An offroad wheelchair model. Great options here. But is the BigDog the future? More at Gizmodo.
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