Archive for July, 2009

Ducks

Tuesday, July 21st, 2009
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Swans

Tuesday, July 21st, 2009
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Water Striders

Tuesday, July 21st, 2009
We have developed a prototype water strider communication device, to be used seasonally to communicate with the water striders. This device is a robotic water strider that can suspend on water, and a pager motor to transmit vibrations through the surface. (more…)

Stickleback

Tuesday, July 21st, 2009
Lifestyles of the sticklebacked and fabulous

How do female sticklebacks decide which basket to put all their eggs into? How did they convince the guys to do all the housework, tend the babies, look after the bigger kids and build the house as well, all while they pursue their dreams? What does a luxury stickleback pad look like anyhow? And what are just bare necessities of stickleback life?
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Robotic Geese

Tuesday, July 21st, 2009
Robotic Geese are remote controlled goose robots that enable participants or robotic goose drivers (aka goosers) to interact with actual geese in urban contexts. The robotic goose interface allows people to approach the birds, follow them closely and interact in a variety of ways that would not otherwise be possible without this interface. (more…)

The Pond

Tuesday, July 21st, 2009
Can there be life under the muddy surface of the tjorn? Actually a teaming, if cloudy body of water with a vast cast of local characters including: the prickly, genetically adaptable Sticklebacks; its chief culinary companions, the crustaceans, a booming mass of algae, daitoms, and very possibly the dark mysterious European eel, trapped forever from it Caribbean mating grounds. (more…)

X Species Cookbook

Tuesday, July 21st, 2009
Re-presenting foods that are delicious and nutritious to both humans and nonhumans, the Cross(x)Species Cookbook presents wilderness adventures for the palette; a ride through the world of nutrient cycles that organize and structure natural and urban systems. will experience the depth, complexity and tastiness of our interconnections with other organisms. (more…)

Rhinoceros Beetle

Tuesday, July 21st, 2009
The rhinoceros beetle wrestling devise is a head-and-body mounted display, that equips human beings with the appendages required to interact with a male Rhinoceros Beetle. The strongest animal in the world, the Rhinoceros Beetle can lift 30 times its weight. So, in addition to scaling us to the beetle’s proportions, the wrestling device evens the playing field, by granting us similar manipulative capacities. It is an architecture of reciprocity, an interface for human and animal interaction on a equal basis. (more…)

Ladybug

Tuesday, July 21st, 2009
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Bat Hunting

Monday, July 20th, 2009
OOZ proposes two distinct interfaces to the bats, to facilitate interaction in their two distinct periods of activity. At night the bats rely on echolocation; however during the day while roosting they use often quite audible communication and are highly social mammals.
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