Heart Robot

http://www.heartrobot.org.uk/

“We wanted to make a puppet to which people might respond emotionally. We wanted the puppet to seem vulnerable, alien, and cartoony. Something new! Something handmade, not factory-built”

this little British guy comes equipped with breathing simulation circuit and since its a puppet it can be controlled by hand. Its amazing to see how people almost automatically relate emotionally to this little creature. they have several other robots per-se (not only robots)

Probo

http://anty.vub.ac.be/info/Probo/

Probo uses sensors for vision, audio and touch to interact with the children. By means of artificial intelligence, Anty is capable of understanding and expressing emotions.

Personally i hate the way this one looks, but its very usefull as stories its aid with ill children at hospital sprawled all over the web. Its hability to detect emotions and react to them made it a perfect companion for hospital beds.

Needies

http://needies.com/about.html

Needies are interactive plush dolls inspired by codependent, high-maintenance relationships.

I was fascinated when i first learned of needies by Brett Schultz (i think they where his thesis project for ITP)  The coolest feature of a needie is that its emotionally dependant of its owner, (needs hugs) and each of them has a different personallity and reacts differently when you pay more attention to another needie he lives with. Not only they sense when you interact with itself but with its peers !

and they are quite huggable too

Huggable

http://robotic.media.mit.edu/projects/robots/huggable/overview/overview.html

It is designed to function as a team member that is an essential member of a triadic interaction. Therefore, the Huggable™ is not designed to replace any particular person in a social network, but rather to enhance that human social network.

This Super Teddy Bear is probably the most advanced companion/toy robot and seems to be mutually inspiration on the Movie AI.  MIT claims it has three main applications,

• Robotic avatar for remote family members
• Early Education Companion
• Therapeutic  Companion

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Exponentes: Arq. Agustín Landa V, Arq. Roberto Romero, en sesiones de interlocución entre ambos exponentes. Catedráticos del Taller Cátedra Blanca CEMEX-ITESM, del ITESM Campus Monterrey.

• 5 sesiones del 23 de agosto al 27 de septiembre
• Sábados de 11:00 a 1:00 pm
• Costo: $1,250 pesos

Contenido: México no quedó exento de la influencia del Movimiento Moderno de las primeras décadas del siglo XX, fue incluso una fuerte plataforma para que este movimiento arquitectónico consiguiera sus mejores ejemplos de como un movimiento de carácter internacional se acoplara sincrónicamente a una cultura local, un hecho que en nuestros días se ha perdido por completo. El curso analizará histórica y teóricamente la producción de arquitectura en nuestro país desde 1910 hasta nuestros días. Se revisarán, por medio de casos de estudio, las obras y los proyectos de los principales autores que dieron las bases y aquellos que son protagonistas de la arquitectura mexicana en la actualidad.
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Beatriz M. Castillo
recepcion@marco.org.mx
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey
www.marco.org.mx
Conmutador: 52 (81) 8262-4500

Image by Carlos Bravo, Arte Terrestre

It kind of reminds me Gremlins 2, where they where obsessed with adopting human behaviours. I want one of these mantis scenes…

You can see more of them at Judith Klausner’s website Rouge Entomologist

for example, i could grow small vegetables in the top and use them to feed the ants, after a time, switch the earth from the ants to the top (im guessing it will be fertilized).

and finally, i guess it wont hurt letting the ants to the upper level everyonce in a while…

anyways this is just RC.001 i’ll be hacking mods and publish them

On one side, it delivers what I’ve always wanted , clean and dry in a single chamber, Secondly it can help reduce health problems in developing countries.
Third, It recycles human energy that its usually lost in everyday activities.

you can read more on http://www.cyclean.biz/ or contact Alex Gadsden.

Facts

• 50% of the world’s population lives in cities.^[6]
• 800 million people are involved in urban agriculture world-wide and contribute to feeding urban residents.^[7]
• Low income urban dwellers spend between 40% and 60% of their income on food each year.^[8]
• By 2015 about 26 cities in the world are expected to have a population of 10 million or more. To feed a city of this size – at least 6000 tonnes of food must be imported each day.^[9]

With the increasing costs of food, and the misuse of cropping lands for bio fuels, Urban Agriculture seems an obvious solution for importing food, which helps to generate employment and decrease costs, and reduce contamination produced to transport food across states and countries.

Any major technology or process that leverages the adoption of Urban Agricutlure and Horticulture will gain great economic and social value. From Guerilla Gardening and Local Markets to Urban and PeriUrban Crops.

There exists a great development and social opportunity for business in urban irrigation, distribution

In Mexico cities like Monterrey, Guadalupe, Santa Catarina etc, there are city wide local markets called Mercado de Abastos, yet they import from long distances and while they offer an open market solution (free prices) they operate under un-optimal conditions and are centralized.

For a deeper insight please read more at Wikipedias references its practically a whole argument in favour of urban agriculture systems, for economic and social development, including wellfare, health and pollution.

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Inauguración de la exposición Crimen y Ornamento

de Oscar Lozano

Jueves 26 de Junio 
20:00 hrs.

Museo Metropolitano de Monterrey

—-
Zaragoza sur s/n, Centro de Monterrey
t. 8344 2503 / 8344 1971

Moonjar v2.01, originally uploaded by .hj barraza.

This moonjar jar includes foil paper to make reflections and cover the guts, and a small layer of water at the bottom to create nice light effects when slightly shaken,

This Moonjar is for a present, so i dont want to turn it on until breceda sees it… ill take a picture of it in action later

Coca-Cola Bottles turned into a indoor gardening tool
go green and make stuff !!

: )

Catedra Blanca, regeneracion centrito valle

Today using birdfeeder I accidentally stumbled across the presentation of a urban regeneration proposal for one of “Centrito Valle” an historical and key area of garza garcia (monterrey practically).

Its proposed by “Catedra Blanca” sponsored by CEMEX Mexico and ITESM. Coordinated by Urban Planing office: IMPLAN San Pedro (Instituto Municipal de Planeacion Urbana de San Pedro Garza Garcia)

For one thing I’m glade that even if its 40 years late (at least), we are starting to plan our urban development, the proposal includes mix use of ground, hybrid buildings and tons of natural lightning and conditioning.

What still worries me is that they plan to use massive amounts of cement (remember the sponsor CEMEX?) which might not be the best solution if we are planning to mitigate an heat island effect and leverage better solutions against global warming.

but who knows, I’m not an architect urbanist nor civil engineer and nevertheless this is an important step towards progress and a better living for future generations.

To learn more you can contact IMPLAN at  catedraurbana@gmail.com or visit their website

check out max’s blog

the images are kinda shitty cuz they where taken with a mobile phone.

My friend Joanna, wanted to do some ant-hunting safari some months ago, (and i thought i was the only ant-freak around) but it was still to cold for them to shake their winter lazyiness away.

With the average tempeture over 35 celsius these days, it makes a perfect weather to go out and ant-hunt a while.

But since my old antfarm got lost somewhere in restate office, i had to build a new one. not to mention that the old one had leaks and no way to escape humidity. And lennin chopped of a finger while trying to make a second one (for real).

any way here we have AntFarm 2008, Release Candidate 2.0 in the making

Yesterday I got invited to the ignauration of a new exposition at the Museum of Glass (Mueso del Vidrio). They told me it was an exposition of crystal pieces (being of baccarat seemed quite rasonable) made by several designers  through time all from 1800′s.

Lots of chandeliers wine champagne cups (also wine for the visitors yeeei). I personally enjoyed the most a chandellier by Phillipe Starck and some champagne cups made for Zar Alexandrov (i believe).  the museum is not very convinietly located, but its worth the visit.

Sorry no pics, maybe they will publish some on the local newspapers.

Museo del Vidrio
Magallanes No. 517
esquina con Zaragoza
Col. Treviño, C.P. 64570
Monterrey N.L. México
Tel. (81) 88.63.10.52 y 88.63.10.70

Horario
Martes a Domingo
9:00 a.m. a 6:00 p.m.

Lunes Cerrado
Martes entrada gratuita

Contacto:
museov@vitro.com

Visitas guiadas previa cita
www.museodelvidrio.com

The end of the begining, the campus-mall metamorphosis has begun

El Tecnológico de Monterrey, Campus Monterrey, le invita a la inauguración
de la Tienda EXA Apple Campus Store este viernes 25 de abril a las 11:00
horas en el Centro Estudiantil.

Durante el evento se darán a conocer los beneficios y descuentos que
ofrecerá a la comunidad Tec, así como también se presentará la línea de
productos Apple, como computadoras portátiles y de escritorio, Ipods,
paquetes de software y accesorios.

Además de ser la primera tienda en Latinoamérica ubicada en un campus
universitario, la Tienda EXA también manejará el esquema Apple Premium
Reseller, como distribuidor autorizado.

I just saw a conference Casey gave a few days ago, but since im the kind of dude that likes to download and watch stuff on the go,i didnt want to see it all online.

So i just went ahead and find the mov file for everyone to download

enjoy:

via tagr.tv

There are as many styles of programming as there are people who program, and it’s the decision of the individual to utilize or ignore math as they prefer.

People who enjoy math often write programs to visualize equations or take delight in exploring phenomena such as fractals. People who struggled with math in school sometimes fi nd they enjoy and understand it better when it is applied to form and motion.

I have the power !!!!

Hopefully Processing might be part of the curriculum for digital artists and designers program at ITESM.

Made with Processing with 2 hours of rendering per each

This is a funky website that explains the history behind the conflicts in middle east and its wars in a different approach. Using Manga …. ?!?!?!?

check out the full strips and characters [here]

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