Sep
19
2005
1

Niet te missen: robodock en techno convention

Robodock Festival en science center NEMO organiseren Technologie Conferentie op vrijdagmiddag 23 september om 15 uur in NEMO.

Op het programma van Robodock (21 t/m 24 september 2005) staan spektakeltheater, multi-media, beeldende kunst, muziek, industriƫle installaties; the state of the art van robotkunst; een continue stroom van bandjes op de bumper stage; een vj-file en technologische experimenten als teslacoils, stoomhoovercraft en ultrasone geluidseffecten.

Robodock heeft als toekomstmissie om meer en meer de nadruk te leggen op het snijvlak van technologie en kunst. Het festival wordt nu al door veel professionals uit de robotica-wereld, de creative industry en de technologie top uit het Nederlandse bedrijfsleven bezocht. Het is een doelstelling om deze platformfunctie verder uit te bouwen. Hiermee wordt gestart op vrijdag 23 september, in samenwerking met science center NEMO.

Robotica-godfathers Stelarc en Chico MacMurtrie geven een lezing over de techniek achter hun kunst. Uitvinder van Pips:lab Kees Duyves houdt een lezing over het nieuwe licht binnen de nieuwe media. In NEMO staat een zeer geavanceerde cyborg, Elektra. De maker, Richard Schaper, vertelt over de techniek achter deze cyborg. De voertaal van dit programma is Engels.

Als je al wat sfeer van het festival wil opsnuiven moet je maar even naar de video of de gallery kijken. Dit is absoluut een van de meest bizarre, toffe, vage, wonderbaarlijke, futuristische festivals van deze tijd. Een absolute must!

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Feb
19
2005
2

Robot Soldiers

The American military is working on a new generation of soldiers, far different from the army it has.

“They don’t get hungry,” said Gordon Johnson of the Joint Forces Command at the Pentagon. “They’re not afraid. They don’t forget their orders. They don’t care if the guy next to them has just been shot. Will they do a better job than humans? Yes.”

The robot soldier is coming.

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Oct
23
2004
1

Scientists gingerly tap into brain’s power

Scientists gingerly tap into brain’s power
A 25-year-old quadriplegic sits in a wheelchair with wires coming out of a bottle-cap-size connector stuck in his skull.

The wires run from 100 tiny sensors implanted in his brain and out to a computer. Using just his thoughts, this former high school football player is playing the computer game Pong.

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Sep
30
2004
1

contracting at the Defense Department. If it doesn’t fly the first time around, you can be sure it’ll be back.

The Department of Defense is handing out contracts for a project to record what soldiers see and do in battle zones. The new initiative closely resembles another, called LifeLog, that the Pentagon scrapped months ago. Wired.com article by Noah Shachtman:

It’s been seven months since the Pentagon pulled the plug on LifeLog, its controversial project to archive almost everything about a person. But now, the Defense Department seems ready to revive large portions of the program under a new name.

Using a series of sensors embedded in a GI’s gear, the Advanced Soldier Sensor Information System and Technology, or ASSIST, project aims to collect what a soldier sees, says and does in a combat zone — and then to weave those events into digital memories, so commanders can have a better sense of how the fight unfolded.

read more, also read about the total information awareness system

see also my previous post on the lifelog project.

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Feb
09
2004
1

Living Machines

Living machines - Wired

Technology and biology are converging fast. The result will transform everything from engineering to art - and redefine life as we know it.

The New Facts of Life
Scientific advances point to a startling conclusion: The nonliving world is very much alive.

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Jan
22
2004
1
Jan
22
2004
1

computers that read your mind

Computers that read your mind

Computing: Researchers have developed a promising new way to control computers by thought alone

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