Word: haptics
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Each minute tons of goods pass freely, quickly, and quietly across international borders. The new Blackberry Storm, released last Friday and equipped with beautiful haptic touch-screens, will certainly reach far-flung outposts in Oceania, the Andes, and the Sahara by the time you read this column. Many of the gadgets will probably rest in the palms of business executives sitting in pleather first-class seats, on missions to freely, quickly, and quietly move capital across international borders. And far below them while they fly, floating on rafts and side-winding in the desert high noon, will be migrants, refugees...
...part installation called “Sensorium: Embodied Experience, Technology, and Contemporary Art,” running from Oct. 12 to Dec. 31 at MIT. According to the exhibition’s brochure, the artists featured seek to evaluate whether “technological advances in digital smell, haptic technologies, and embodied computing” will be able to replace “vision’s long held-dominance over the other senses.” Tolaas’s exhibition explores how the body uses varying physiological states to communicate different moods—focusing on body odor...
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