Archives > 2010-08

A great presentation by Mattew Cornell about the concept of self-tracking and the implications of this emerging research field for people's wellbeing.

Keiichi Matsuda did it again. After the success of Domestic Robocop , the architecture graduate and filmaker got the nomination for the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) Silver Medal award, for his new video " Augmented City ". As in his previous work, in this new video Matsuda describes a future world overlaid with digital information, whose built environment can be manipulated...

The Heart Chamber Orchestra consists of classical musicians who use their heartbeats to control a computer composition and visualization environment. To my best knowledge, this is the first...

Vicon Revue is a wearable digital camera that allows to take photographs automatically, while it is being worn. In this way, the user can keep a photo log of his/her day to day life. The camera...

Short-term meditation induces white matter changes in the anterior cingulate. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2010 Aug 16; Authors: Tang YY, Lu Q, Geng X, Stein EA, Yang Y, Posner MI The...