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...this the year that geeks take over the design world? You might think so, judging by "Design Life Now: National Design Triennal 2006," which runs until July 29 at the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum in New York City. On display are more than 100 of the most inventive works from the past three years, ranging from new graphics for prescription pill bottles to wardrobes for Madame Butterfly. The exhibit is meant to showcase recent design feats, but it feels futuristic, with a prominent pack of robotic dogs and sci-fi humanoids coming to life among the customary displays...
...varying degrees, all the robots on display imitate the look and behavior of living creatures, a form of engineering known as biomimicry. A robot designed by David Hanson, president and director of Dallas-based Hanson Robotics, to look like Albert Einstein can hold a plausible conversation (it understands 130,000 words) accompanied by convincing hand gestures. Its subtle facial expressions are facilitated by Frubber, a patented polymer that simulates facial skin...
...team devised a way to mimic these same intuitive reactions in the lab. He gave subjects $20 each and, while they were in the fMRI machine, presented them with pictures of 80 products, each followed by a price. Subjects then had the option of purchasing each item on display. As they viewed products they preferred, Knutson saw activity in the nucleus accumbens, a region of the brain involved in anticipating pleasant outcomes. If, on the other hand, the subjects thought the price of these items was too high, there was increased activity in the insula-- an area involved in anticipating...
...brain. They may bind the activity in far-flung regions (one for color, another for shape, a third for motion) into a coherent conscious experience, a bit like radio transmitters and receivers tuned to the same frequency. Sure enough, when two patterns compete for awareness in a binocular-rivalry display, the neurons representing the eye that is "winning" the competition oscillate in synchrony, while the ones representing the eye that is suppressed fall out of synch...
...alias from 2001-2005 18 Former Marlins pitcher ___ Nen 22 Up, in a sense 25 Ye ___ shoppe 26 Goes in haste 27 Author Umberto 29 Tease 30 Tokyo’s former name 31 Source of many a boring lecture 32 Uber 33 Showed amazement, as at a firework display 38 Biblical question 39 Tennis great Sampras 40 Sounds of content 41 And so on, briefly 42 Abbr. in two U.S. state names 44 Super Bowl group: Abbr. 46 Quantity 47 Henry Winkler role on “Happy Days” 48 Ones who give blood...