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How Artists Are Using Technology (video)
These four artists are merging art with technology in the most creative ways. While Geoffrey Drake-Drockman builds interactive cybernetic sculptures, the artists at Factum Arte painstakingly produce replicas of Egyptian art. Janet Echelman weaves massive installations out of high-tech fiber originally made for NASA, and coder Miral Kotb lights up the dance world with wearable…
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Astronaut Fashion Is Changing. This Is Not Your Grandpa’s Spacesuit (podcast)
For the first time in decades, NASA is planning to send astronauts back to the moon. Their spacesuits will be very different from what Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin wore when they walked the lunar surface in 1969. Spacesuits today are thinner and lighter, while still making sure astronauts can complete tasks and stay alive.…
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Bio-Digital Wearables for Space Health Enhancement (article)
Living in space could have significant physical and mental impacts on astronauts. Wearables have the potential to play a critical role in monitoring, supporting, and sustaining human life in space, lessening the need for human medical expert intervention. https://www.media.mit.edu/projects/bio-digital-wearables/overview/
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Sensor Turns Any Surface, Even the Human Body, Into Input Device
A research team from the University of Michigan and Meta Reality Labs has developed a system to turn any surface—clothes, countertops, even clothing—into an input device for swipes, taps, and scrolls. https://www.allaboutcircuits.com/news/sensor-turns-any-surface-even-the-human-body-input-device/
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Living in Space (resource)
From the challenges of providing optimal nutrition to managing the risks posed by microgravity, scientists and engineers from NASA work to predict, assess, and solve the problems that humans encounter in space. Through such research, NASA can develop systems that help humans thrive in space. https://www.nasa.gov/humans-in-space/living-in-space/
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Make It Wearable | Episode 4: Becoming Superhuman(video)
In this episode, we focus on stories about people who have personally experienced wearable technology’s potential to enhance the human condition, from Neil Harbisson the “sono-chromatic” cyborg, to an art product that enhances the senses, to the latest breakthroughs in prosthetics and exoskeleton technology at Vanderbilt University.
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The Disappearing Computer — and a World Where You Can Take AI Everywhere | Imran Chaudhri | TED (video)
In this exclusive preview of groundbreaking technology, former Apple designer and Humane cofounder Imran Chaudhri envisions a future where AI enables our devices to “disappear.” He gives a sneak peek of his company’s new product — shown for the first time ever on the TED stage — and explains how it could change the way…
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Can Virtual Reality Help Fight the Opioid Crisis? (video)
Cedars-Sinai hospital in Los Angeles has found an unconventional way to treat chronic pain – virtual reality programs designed by the company Applied VR. The VR experiences “hijack” the brains of patients, drastically reducing their perception of pain. In the latest episode of Superhuman, we look at the technology and meet patients benefiting from it.…
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The Clothing of the Future Could Shift Shape With Just a Glance (video)
Designer Behnaz Farahi’s 3-D printed vest can say “back off” without ever uttering a word thanks to eye-tracking controlled movement.
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Anouk Wipprecht integrates parking sensors into 3D-printed fashion collection (video)
Dutch designer Anouk Wipprecht tells us about the digital tools she used to create a collection of interactive 3D-printed dresses for Audi, which incorporate headlights, parking sensors and other technology. The movie is part of Dezeen’s new Future Makers collaboration with Autodesk exploring the future of making things.
