Item #174: I’m sick and tired of giving directions to prospies. By Thursday morning at 9:00 a.m., erect a signpost somewhere on campus with arrows pointing in the direction of and giving the distance to: your Headquarters, three Hyde Park landmarks, and a city located on another continent. [21 points]
Photo by C. Smith
Congratulations to BrostompFM, winners of Scav 2013!
Fan Bing Bing- ‘Jeune & Jolie’ Premiere during the 66th Annual Cannes Film Festival at Grand Theatre Lumiere on May 16, 2013
The Seine at Pont-Neuf, Fog Effect - Albert Marquet.
Skinny Circuits
Rubbed on like a temporary tattoo these ultra-thin electronics bend and stretch with the skin. Their development paves the way for sensors that monitor heart and brain activity to take the place of bulky equipment and taped-on electrodes. Electronic components shrunk to the size of tiny bumps on the skin are connected with serpentine wires that meander like rivers, straightening rather than snapping when stretched. The whole thing is mounted on a rubbery sheet that mimics the elastic properties of skin. Known as epidermal electronics, the technology can even control computer games from voice commands. Worn on the gamer’s throat, the patches detect the electrical charges associated with the muscle movements of speech. The potential applications of linking electronics and biology in this way seem boundless.
Written by Mick Warwicker
For a period in the 1990s, John Schabel camped out on overpasses near New York airports, peering with a giant telephoto lens into the cabin windows of aircraft waiting, and waiting, for takeoff.
