Memories

Bummed that today’s technology hasn’t lived up to the sci-fi promises of yesteryear (world peace, teleportation, orgasmatrons)? So is Scott Listfield. “We’re living in the future, and it is pretty freaking weird,” says the artist from his outpost in Somerville, Massachusetts.” But maybe not weird in quite the way we thought it was going to be.” … “I wanted something that could function like an anthropologist — a bit reserv... more

But only a little one: From io9 : This tiny device attaches to your fingertip, using a camera to translate visual images into feelings by activating a little vibrator attached to the sensitive nerves in your finger. So you wave your hands around and “feel” objects across the street. The abstract for the device, called the Fingersight, is rather interesting: We present a new method of sensing the 3D visual environment and controlling objects within it. The human hand i... more

From Subtopia: Floating Prisons, and Other Miniature Prefabricated Islands of Carceral Territoriality , great article. It also got me thinking about the poems from Guantanamo detainees that was published last year - there are some extracts available at Boston.com news . “They have monuments to liberty And freedom of opinion, which is well and good. But I explained to them that Architecture is not justice…” ... more