Wired 15.04: Mixed Feelings
For six weird weeks in the fall of 2004, Udo Wächter had an unerring sense of direction. Every morning after he got out of the shower, Wächter, a sysadmin at the University of Osnabrück in Germany, put on a wide beige belt lined with 13 vibrating pads — the same weight-and-gear modules that make a cell phone judder. On the outside of the belt were a power supply and a sensor that detected Earth's magnetic field. Whichever buzzer was pointing north would go off. Constantly.
Thursday, April 5, 2007
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Sunday, April 1, 2007
Design Intervention - New York Times
Design Intervention - New York Times: "Let%u2019s be realistic. John Edwards is cute. His wife I adore madly. But I see few signs that our great country will reverse course away from the extreme economic polarization that we%u2019ve been moving toward since the late 1960s. If we%u2019re determined to live in a plantation society, why pretend that the slave quarters can be magically transformed into the planter%u2019s mansion? Why should a slave ship resemble the Queen Mary? Why add delusion to discomfort?"
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