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Comment on MIT General Exam : passed! by Mauro Pinheiro

Mauro Pinheiro — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 15:41:24 +0000

Nice presentation Cati. Very interesting work being done…all the best in your PhD.

Comment on MIT General Exam : passed! by keywon

keywon — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 03:50:15 +0000

Congratulations!!! See you tomorrow :)

Comment on MIT General Exam : passed! by ZeeDeVoSS

ZeeDeVoSS — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 08:37:17 +0000

Félicitations Mademoiselle!!! :)

Comment on Yard sale treasures by Evan Edwards

Evan Edwards — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 05:06:38 +0000

Wow! Thanks so much for posting this! I had this toy as a 7 year old back in the 1970’s! I’m 46 now and I’ve been trying to figure out the name of it for years and years! I finally tried a Google image search with ‘magnetic blocks with electronic components’ and your image turned up.

It was a wonderful toy and started me on a lifelong interest in electronics! To this day I think how great were my parents that they got me that toy! Seriously! The pictures you posted brought back a flood of fond memories, I remember each of those blocks well!

Lectron! Decades of searching ended for me today! Thank you so much.

Comment on Pleasure with champaigne and glasses by ZeeDeVoSS

ZeeDeVoSS — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 11:35:19 +0000

Save water… Drink Champagne! ;)

Comment on A toy-cyborg for children! by HD41117

HD41117 — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 02:11:57 +0000

I remember Stelarc from a documentary made by the BBC in the early ’90s; he didn’t look like this, no bad thing. I believe I still have the programme on VHS and will dig it out for encoding.

Comment on Physical display with deformable skin by idealist

idealist — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 05:32:15 +0000

wonderful!
it reminds me to the Digital Elastic Clock by Albin Karlsson
http://www.albinkarlsson.com/projects/digital/digitalgold.html

and in a certain way, to the very cool SnOil project by Martin Frey
http://www.architectradure.com/2007/02/17/pixel-graphic-style-in-a-physical-display/

Thanks for the discovery.

Comment on For the beauty of the eyes … by ZeeDeVoSS

ZeeDeVoSS — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 04:51:21 +0000

Niiiiiice!

Comment on Low cost wearable sensor for detecting Electromagnetic fields by Mauro Pinheiro

Mauro Pinheiro — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 21:54:01 +0000

Cati, very interesting project. I agree with you when you highlight the impotance of making people aware of what is “invisible” to us. We see people with much fear and concern without real undestanding what’s going on. Projects like yours makes us more aware of things, and empowers us to make choices about our lives.

PS: loved the accent. :-) I assume that’s you. Nice to hear the voice behind the words.

Comment on Low cost wearable sensor for detecting Electromagnetic fields by Cati

Cati — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 05:55:33 +0000

I show a closeup of my circuit design in the video!

Comment on Low cost wearable sensor for detecting Electromagnetic fields by john

john — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 04:58:57 +0000

a potential device to turn into wireless charging device for cellphone and other mobile devices

Comment on Low cost wearable sensor for detecting Electromagnetic fields by Wants to know

Wants to know — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 19:44:55 +0000

Are the schematics for this design available?

Comment on Low cost wearable sensor for detecting Electromagnetic fields by ZeeDeVoSS

ZeeDeVoSS — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 09:27:39 +0000

Mmm to be honest I do not know exactly how to use it, but I find interesting your idea to visualize the invisible.

Comment on This silent language … by Susan Sanford

Susan Sanford — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 18:44:09 +0000

See also Richard Sennett’s “The Craftsman” for thoughts on repetition in learning, especially with reference to mastery of craft/art. A wonderful book.

Comment on This silent language … by b

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 23:42:01 +0000

I always adjust my personal space in accordance to others, assuming they aren’t intruding on mine to a point where I’m uncomfortable. When I’ve spent time in eastern Asia for example, I felt I was constantly being bumped and crowded, but no one else seemed to notice, so I just made up for it by keeping to myself when I came home to the States :)

I think nonverbal cues are stronger the more you know about them though. With some people I know, they absolutely cannot read how I’m feeling based on my physical appearance, distancing, posture, and so on. But I have two of three people in my life who can immediately zero in on those things and react to them. Strangely, those people, while my best friends, live states and sometimes continents away from me! But when we’re together, there’s an immediate comfort with our physicality and nonverbal communication. I guess that does just prove it’s all connected…

Comment on This silent language … by Zee DeVoSS

Zee DeVoSS — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 23:04:01 +0000

“After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is Music.”
“Without music, life would be a mistake.”

It is too much time spent since I last read Nietzsche… thank you Cati to remind me this.

Comment on Yard sale treasures by Zee DeVoSS

Zee DeVoSS — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 06:00:37 +0000

Hehehe, what a cool discovery! I had a “recent version”, connecting components with wires. The name was “200-in-1″ or something like this. I played hours, weeks, years with it, creating radiophone, alarms and various tests (almost 200 indeed!) it did not help with my physics classes! Maybe I would have learned better with the symbols-puzzle instead ;) …

Comment on Organic prosthesis by Justin (Pusha)

Justin (Pusha) — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 03:24:24 +0000

This looks like a fun project that can lead to a lot of other great ideas. I have never been to this “non Blogspot” part of your blog. How and why do you post on both?

Comment on April fool, the USB pregnancy Test by clara

clara — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 15:12:38 +0000

Oh my god this is complete madness! And yet obviously really good… wowza.

Comment on A little bubble and a little LED by Lis

Lis — Thu, 29 May 2008 13:47:45 +0000

Nice one. We have our own little project to get to, eh?

Comment on A Health-Obsessed Robot for Health Obsessives by reddknight

reddknight — Tue, 20 May 2008 13:16:34 +0000

Thanks the interesting post *and* for reminding me about Electric Dreams–I’d forgotten about that movie gem.

@Zee your movie choices are harder to forget. Blade Runner is my all-time favourite–very emotionally charged (artificial or otherwise).

Comment on A Health-Obsessed Robot for Health Obsessives by Zee DeVoSS

Zee DeVoSS — Tue, 20 May 2008 07:10:36 +0000

Artificial emotional intelligence… I definitely remember electric dreams, and I can’t help thinking immediately about “Blade Runner” (from Phil K. Dick’s “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?”) and the incredible “Ghost in the Shell”…

Comment on All you can eat! by Guga

Guga — Sat, 17 May 2008 14:04:54 +0000

i dont’t like the taste of my orange tie…no salt!

Comment on Fashionable Technology: The Intersection of Design, Fashion, Science, and Technology by smith

smith — Sat, 17 May 2008 14:03:11 +0000

Congrats Cati! I’m looking forward to checking out this text. :)

Comment on All you can eat! by Jean-Jacques Birgé

Jean-Jacques Birgé — Thu, 15 May 2008 06:12:54 +0000

Excitant ! Succulent ? Cela doit coûter bonbon…

Comment on Happy mother’s day! by Jean-Jacques Birgé

Jean-Jacques Birgé — Sun, 11 May 2008 16:50:14 +0000

In our French family, Mother’s Day (en français, fête des mères) has never been honored as it was established by government of Vichy in 1941 ! A reactionnary manisfestation of collaboration with the Nazis…

Comment on A chair to peel by Jean-Jacques Birgé

Jean-Jacques Birgé — Sun, 11 May 2008 08:23:48 +0000

Mise à jour effectuée.
Bonne continuation.
jjb

Comment on Attachments to artifacts: Collect to connect to construct by Yaz

Yaz — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 01:55:10 +0000

Fred and I are looking forward to your chapter. We had received about 50 abstracts in total for our co-edited book. So congratulations!!

Comment on Chocolate is the key by Zee DeVoSS

Zee DeVoSS — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 03:05:57 +0000

Yessss! It could actually make me want to crunch bits and other numbers… ;)

C’est une gourmandise 100% pur geek!

Comment on The subliminal watch by Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 14:07:35 +0000

I want one!

Comment on Talk at Simon Fraser University by Anne

Anne — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 03:30:15 +0000

Hi Cati! Hope you’re well.

This sounds interesting - I hope you’ll consider posting your talk slides and/or notes.

Comment on Low tech color calendar by Tim

Tim — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 06:02:20 +0000

It’s great!
The level of the ink in the bottle seems to indicate it’s real and not just a concept. I’d be curious to know exactly how the card is done though.

If I can find a way to do these myself, I could see many future cards of mine like that…

Comment on Your email in the future by Social Networking Designer

Social Networking Designer — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 01:19:46 +0000

Heyy this is cool. This will be helpful for people who keep on forgetting birthdays and other special events. :)

Comment on Your email in the future by Zee DeVoSS

Zee DeVoSS — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 00:55:50 +0000

This idea is just great! I hope they will keep their promise and don’t play with our hopes and child dreams to time-travel. If the company can stay alive or can find a way to keep that system alive, what a gorgeous surprise it will be in two decades to receive an e-mail from the past!!!

Thank you, Cati, again! We need to create a new word to thank you, endlessly!

Comment on Talk at Simon Fraser University by trendinsights

trendinsights — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 22:11:24 +0000

Do update us on the talk Cati! We’re definitely interested to find out more about the products developed.

Comment on Talk at Simon Fraser University by Eli

Eli — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 22:09:07 +0000

Will it be webcasted?

(There should be an acronym for that, WIBW or something. The poor-quality digitalization of real-world events, reduced to four letters.)

It sounds fascinating.

Comment on Personal Genome Card by Chris Grayson

Chris Grayson — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 22:07:53 +0000

Oh, ha, I was catching on my feed-reader, I just got to this story. I guess I needn’t recommend…

Comment on DNA, this little monster by Chris Grayson

Chris Grayson — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 22:07:16 +0000

I assume you’ve seen the movie GATTACA (1997)?If not, I recommend it. It’s a good movie:The seven…

Comment on Absolut by Yaz

Yaz — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 22:05:37 +0000

That is so funny, I was just reading about it the other day… Thank you for this post.

Comment on A new social network! by Robert Michel

Robert Michel — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 05:01:27 +0000

I just stopped by your blog and thought I would say hello. I like your site design. Looking forward to reading more down the road.

Robert Michel

Comment on These little things in the dark … by Sean

Sean — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 02:22:41 +0000

How fascinating and fun looking! This is one interesting bit of technology. It jumps into our human psyche and allows science and technology to invade the realm of shadows–which we humans have had a long-running fascination/fear/love of–more than, say, wave propagation theory. Visual over abstract and theory with no slit filters and such needed!

How can you not love the thought of little shadow people hiding about your house, playing in sight, and then vanishing when you intrude on their little world? But on a more serious note… How long do expect it will be before ‘real’ shadow people come out of the woodwork and start litigation, claiming Kage no Sekai is putting them out of work and infringing on the spirit world’s domain?

;)

Thanks for the great post!

Comment on Whisper of eight turned on pistol grip megaphones. by Zee DeVoSS

Zee DeVoSS — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 05:59:17 +0000

Mouvement (presque) perpétuel du son… :)

How strange this power of attraction of such simple things as a circle or a infinite reflection of mirrors, don’t you think?

Thank you again and have a good day! :)

Comment on Whisper of eight turned on pistol grip megaphones. by blinkr

blinkr — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 07:25:41 +0000

beautiful!
it reminds me the “circular bycicle” from Robert Wechsler.

Comment on Low tech color calendar by Zee DeVoSS

Zee DeVoSS — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 13:51:20 +0000

It looks really cool indeed. And it would be nice to mix the ink with essential oil or perfume withouth changing the rythm of propagation, wouldn’t it? :)

Comment on Future fashion from the past by augmentedblog

augmentedblog — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 01:44:39 +0000

Strolling through your blog. Loving your idea of knowledge shopping. And maybe this past fashion from the future puts a smile on your face.
http://augmentedblog.wordpress.com/2007/10/23/fashion-victims-meet-technology-disciple

Comment on GPS tracking and goggle earth navigation by gps systems

gps systems — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 01:43:08 +0000

GPS is the way to future. I see in next 20 years or so , may be no vehicle in our countries will be without gps. However , cost is still a problem , specially in developing nations. But I am sure , with increase in demand the cost will come down. Nice blog.

Comment on Interactive touch sensitive surface by Gillian

Gillian — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 01:41:33 +0000

This is a fascinating development - a definite leap from static computer screens to interactive display. It seems to me that this technology is getting pretty close to the screens and holograms on Star Trek. Very cool!

Comment on Your umbrella is your better sword! by Zee DeVoSS

Zee DeVoSS — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 23:07:00 +0000

Whooooah! C’est excellent! Et le Fula à la fin, c’est géant! Je veux avoir 10 ans à nouveau! Vive l’accéleromètre et les géniaux ingénieurs! Merci Cati de nous faire partager ces découvertes :)

Comment on Recycle your equipment! by Teratologist

Teratologist — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 20:41:00 +0000

A kind of preview…

J’etais sur que c’etait un bon theme mais je le suis encore plus apres avoir lu ce post.

Comment on DIY: A latte art printing machine! by Sotopia

Sotopia — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 21:13:00 +0000

I think 3D printing is so cool. We print a lot of models each day. The sky is the limit with this freedom of form.

cheers
rene
sotopiaconcepts.com