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...Stand near another, and notice how the soft, ambient music in the background changes pitch. Now showing at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in New York City, through January 2004, Cyberflora Installation was created by Breazeal, a professor of media arts and sciences at M.I.T. Media Lab, and a team of her students. "So many robots are seen as mechanical drones that do physical labor," says Breazeal. "I wanted to communicate a more humane vision of technology and convey the notion of interactivity as a dance...
...grownup view of catastrophe, check out Danny Boyle's 28 Days Later. In the script by Alex Garland (whose novel The Beach was filmed by Boyle), lab chimps have been injected with a virulent "rage hormone." They bite some humans, who bite others, and so on and so on. Four weeks later, London is a wasteland, its streets denuded of people, except for a few uninfected survivors and many ravenous, fast-moving zombies. "Plans are pointless," says a stubborn survivor, Selena (Naomie Harris). "Stayin' alive is as good as it gets...
There are many small mysteries—there’s the biotech lab facing Mass. Ave. which for some unknown reason hides its pipette-wielders from view with a set of cartoonish stained-glass windows. There’s the 50-something woman energetically doing calisthenics to hip-hop music blaring out of a store that sells everything, from luggage to sports jersey dresses...
Want to study computer viruses? The University of Calgary has a new lab where students will re-create them. Security experts fear the venture could encourage hackers, but Professor Ken Barker responds, "Do you think anybody could kill these things if they didn't also understand how they work...
...daily, Metro hopes the devices will catch on enough to justify mass production. Advantage on The Net Wimbledon may be one of sport's most old-fashioned events, but that hasn't stopped IBM from using this year's edition of the tennis tournament as a kind of tech lab. Equipment from IBM and Cisco is being used to turn the entire Wimbledon site into a wi-fi zone. Journalists will be able to file stories wirelessly from any location, and game statistics will be logged directly from courtside into the data-crunching network used by TV broadcasters. Perhaps...