This knife is an interesting example of Food Media and Food Enteratinment. It can make the sounds of the animals when you cut the meat (cow mooing etc.)
The Screaming Chef’s Knife from ThinkGeek (by thinkgeek)
http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/41/screaming-knife.shtml
Ultra Geeky but cool! World’s first Low Power Bluetooth app on iPhone 4s. Ultra low power Bluetooth can run hardware for up to a year on a watch battery. I am developing a new project with my students using this new chip from Texas Instruments – stay tuned 🙂
An excellent talk I saw at TEDxTokyo some simple advice on how to live longer. – Yukio Yamori – Avoid Salt. Eat fish and Soy. Live longer – [English] (by TEDxTalks)
Excellent advise for young researchers on research and publishing by Dr. Guido Kroemer. Professor at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Paris Descartes, and Editor of Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications journal (BBRC)
ICALT2012 Keynote Talk
Multi Modal Sensory Human Communication in the Internet Society
Adrian David Cheok
Rome, 4th July
This presentation outlines new multisensory communication supporting embodied and creative learning using social and physical contact and fun together with internet media. We aim to develop new types of learning environments using all the senses, including touch, taste, and smell. This talk will describe a ubiquitous computing environment based on an integrated design of real and virtual worlds. We discuss some different research prototype systems for interactive, playful, and creative learning. The presentation will also explore means to empower children (as the future leaders) in developing countries as innovators by nurturing their creativity with design and creative thinking using new media technologies. We believe this is an excellent way for children to be developers and innovators of the future.
International conference on Advanced Learning Technologies and Technology-enhanced Learning organized by IEEE Computer Society and IEEE Technical Committee on Learning Technology.
Our Poetry Mix Up project was exhibited in downtown Seoul at the SK Telecom center. People could tweet a message and it would be converted to a poem. You can try it for yourself. Send a tweet to @poetrymixup and it will be converted to a poem.
Light Perfume: Device to communicate by light and smell
Mirroring is the behavior in which one person copies another person usually while in social interaction with them and is one of the most powerful ways to build rapport quickly. When meeting someone for the first time, mirroring their seating position, posture, body angle, gestures, expressions and tone of voice are some useful examples of doing this. Before long, your partner will start to feel that there’s something about you they like and they may even describe you as ‘easy to be with’.
Lighting and scents have shown to have an important role in reinforcing special perception, activity and mood setting, emotion, judgments, and even social relationship. Light Perfume was designed to help people mirror each other using visual and olfactory outputs to strengthen a user’s psychological bond with the partner. We do this by synchronizing the speed and blinking color of LEDs and emit the same perfume scent from each person’s device during a face-to-face conversation. The outputs are chosen based on inputs from the user’s environment such as noise levels and expressive body gestures.
A summary of typical love relationships in Japan and around the world.
Augmented Reality for All Senses – Adrian David Cheok. Keynote Talk at Augmented Reality Event ARE 2012 May 8-9, Santa Clara Convention Center
Official video on ARE site: http://augmentedrealityevent.com/stream/are.video.public.php?v_id=81
Seoul Digital Forum, Mixed Reality: Beyond the Real-Virtual Dichotomy.
Mixed Reality: Beyond the Real-Virtual Dichotomy, Expanding Human Potentials 2012-05-23
Visionary : Adrian D. CHEOK [Professor, Graduate School of Media Design, Keio University / Director, Mixed Reality Lab, National University of Singapore], Howard CHARNEY [Senior Vice President, Office of the President, Cisco], Genevieve BELL [Director, Interactions and Experience Research, Intel Labs, INTEL]
Symposiarch : WOO Woontack [Professor, Graduate School of Culture Technology, KAIST]
The scope and reach of human influence is being extended. The new generation of mixed reality technologies is merging the real and the virtual, making possible simultaneous interactions between the two worlds. With its limitations in interface design and accessibility being mitigated, mixed reality is making tangible contributions to expanding the human potential in an increasing number of practical fields including healthcare, education, training and media by lowering spatiotemporal barriers. With the real and the virtual coming to coexist and be increasingly interfused, what kinds of benefits and obstacles lie in store for us?