Berit 08-07-09

Hey Jay,

Hope you are settled in your new flat!
It was great to see you the other day and I think we will have a lot
fun inventing some weird non-functional-eyesight-blurry-gadget :)

Have a look at this:

http://www.harbisson.com/Neil_Harbisson/About.html
First official eyeborg who travels around the world looking for the
sounds of colours.

http://www.grand-illusions.com/acatalog/Hyperscope.html
Hyperscope that stretches your eyes and makes everything
super-3dimensional

other optical illusions
http://www.grand-illusions.com/acatalog/Land_Effect.html
http://www.grand-illusions.com/acatalog/Optical_Toys.html
http://www.grand-illusions.com/acatalog/Spy_Sunglasses.html
well, just scan through grand illusions, they have great stuff

synaesthesia movie
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIEiOrxhtNQ

the upside down glasses experiment you were telling me about
http://wearcam.org/tetherless/node4.html
will try to get hold of the original paper
diy:
http://www.instructables.com/id/Upside-down-glasses/

Fingersight Synaesthesia Machine
http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=1387

and so on...


I also really liked your idea about the online library about the PhD
projects that failed...still can't believe that the failures just end
up in nowhere...
I was at a workshop about practice-based design PhDs yesterday and
they actually touched that subject. It seems that in design it is
much more common and even welcomed to document failures. Fail
gracefully!


Ok, thats it for now.
Talk to you soon
Have a great day!
Berit