Most large museums and art galleries today provide some kind of personal audio device that visitors can carry with them if they wish to learn more about the various exhibits on display. A similar idea has been implemented at the Brühl’s Terrace in Dresden, Germany, but instead of having to wear headphones or hold some device to their ear, visitors simply need to rest their elbows on a metal rail and cover their ears with their hands. Using bone conduction technology (or what they call ‘Touched Echo’) the sounds of airplanes and explosions simulating the air raid that occurred on February 13, 1945 are transmitted from the metal rail through the visitor’s arms and directly into the inner ear.The sounds are completely inaudible to someone who isn’t touching the rail, and since the terrace is located outside, the bone conduction system is a perfect solution because it’s completely weatherproof.

via:: ohGizmo!

Adorei a tese de conclusão de curso do alemão Markus Kison na Escola de Artes de Berlin. O trabalho foi focado em digital media art / physical computing. A obra chamada Pulse é um organismo de visualização de emoções expressas em blogs do blogger.com. De acordo com a quantidade de palavras e sinônimos dessas palavras escritas, como ódio, amor, carinho etc.. uma área do coração é mais ativada. O mapeamento dessas regiões foi baseado no psychoevolutionary theory of emotion, criado por Robert Plutchik´s.

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Talk about wearing your heart on the sleeve of the internet. This installation created by Markus Kison called Pulse visualises the recent emotional expressions, written on weblogs at blogger.com. The result is a pulsating plastic heart connected to many wires and nodes in a room.

German designer Markus Kison brings together the deity and the dollar on this crucifix. Under the ‘INRI’ incrspition there is a ticker feed displaying the actual stock exchange prices of the shares the Vatican owns. Watch it in action here.