Scott Summit, 3-D Printing Spurs a Manufacturing Revolution
September 14, 2010 by George Canciani · Leave a Comment
Scott Summit, a co-founder of Bespoke, “wanted to create a leg that had a level of humanity”, using advanced 3-D printing to create prosthetic limbs.
Adaptive Bloom, Reactive Facade
September 14, 2010 by George Canciani · Leave a Comment
‘Adaptive Bloom’ by Justin Goodyer of the Bartlett School of Architecture is a reactive facade driven by servos and a computer vision system.
Doll Face, Artificial Desires
September 10, 2010 by George Canciani · Leave a Comment
Media, Influence, Desire, Greed, Backlash.
(Andy Huang animation).
Juan Enriquez, Big Reboot: Financial Crisis to Evolutionary Tech
June 4, 2010 by George Canciani · Leave a Comment
Rebooting toward a trajectory of a different species: from Homo Sapiens to evolutionary hominid. (Of course it’s a double-edged sword) (18 min, Feb 2009)
Artificial Paradise, Inc. An Experimental Film Anticipating Organic Virtual Reality
April 21, 2010 by George Canciani · Leave a Comment
Artificial Paradise, Inc is an experimental film anticipating a future where a major corporation has developed an unique software, based on organic virtual reality, which holds all the lost memories of humankind. A user connects to this database of the forgotten…
Film by Jp Frenay
Festo Bionic AquaJellies
February 12, 2010 by George Canciani · Leave a Comment
Learning from Nature shows the way to energy-efficient movement processes, through bionics. Recent technology is used in experimental prototypes, such as integrated mechatronic concepts with options for remote maintenance and diagnostics, piezoelectric valves and electric drives. Inspiration for the complex drive forms comes from natural phenomena in air and water, and from humanity itself.
Big Dog LS3 Robotic Prototype Auto-tracking a Human
February 4, 2010 by George Canciani · Leave a Comment
DARPA funded artificially-intelligent robot in action. This entity uses GPS and machine vision to follow along with mobile humans, and function as a semi-autonomous collaborator. There’s a visceral shift in perception when we interact with sensor driven embodied AI. Animal nature, human nature, or AI nature.