ok now THAT is freaking awesome.

10 stars!

Posted at 1:11 am on Mar 29th, 2007 by Mr Jones

This is amazing. I love seeing things like this. The project is very thought provoking…

Posted at 1:34 am on Mar 29th, 2007 by James

If the water testing department used this method there would be lots of people that would request to stay and watch their water sample being tested instead of just the quick drop-off.

Posted at 3:32 am on Mar 29th, 2007 by Alan

If he’s your friend, why don’t you ask him about it?

Posted at 6:35 am on Mar 29th, 2007 by jasorn

I just want one for my living room, that looks cool! I wonder what happens if you introduce 2 animal thingies under the microscope?

Posted at 10:55 am on Mar 29th, 2007 by Rob

That’s hot — but calling it an interface is a bit of a stretch. Give the bug an avatar on a quake server and represent other players as lights moving around the bug. Then you could give the bug a 5-s timeout when it gets fragged or turn on all the lights when it kills something — that would be an interface.

Posted at 11:43 am on Mar 29th, 2007 by Andrew

@Andrew

Bro, we all know that the bug wants to play WoW and be ahorde on a PVP server.

Posted at 4:46 pm on Mar 29th, 2007 by orvtech

“The topic of the project works between interaction design and the biology…the borders between technology and the animal world blurs.”

More like another self-deluded technoartist blurring the borders between brilliance and bullcrap. Here’s my version, which I think would be far more entertaining:

The system consists of Mr. Angeln, a large room, a camera in the ceiling, a motorized panel in each wall, and a computer. Mr. Angeln is locked in the room after being deprived of food and drink for three days. The panels are under computer control, and behind each is a tasty cupcake and a glass of cold milk. The computer opens one panel at a time. It also tracks Mr. Angeln’s position via the camera. Should he get too close to an open panel, that panel will be closed and another opened.

After a period of time, Mr. Angeln’s cries of protest will generate an individual, unique music piece, composed by an animal. In addition, the level of his despair/starvation/dehydration could be measured by the speed of his movements.

It’s not torture – it’s an “interface”!

Posted at 6:14 pm on Mar 29th, 2007 by Darkcobra

i agree with [darkcobra], while the resulting projection does look quite beautiful, its rather sad that they are generated by an animal that (is possibly?) being deprived of one of its primary energy sources — light. i definitely agree with the cupcake example! i doubt that in that situation he would then describe the device as an interface…

Posted at 11:55 am on Mar 30th, 2007 by silic0re

Oh my gawd, you animal humpers need to get a life. This is awesome pure and simple. It’s not like we’re killing the little bugger for burgers or anything, geez.

Posted at 3:54 pm on Mar 30th, 2007 by Sam

Holy moly.

You better pack it in right now if you’re gonna start squealing for microscopic animal rights!

Your own body is destroying them left and right!

I suggest you attach tiny protest signs to toothpicks and cover yourself with ‘em asap so something gets done about it!

Posted at 8:40 am on Apr 1st, 2007 by strider_mt2k

@strider_mt2k – it is a lot easier to argue for the life of these creatures when you see their image projected on a screen then when they are invisible to your eye.

Posted at 1:17 pm on May 9th, 2007 by nava

Animal Rights?!!!!
Start canvassing for the ban of bug zappers.
Its inhuman to attract bugs using blue light and fry’em with electricity.
Imagine somebody goin to a porno bar and getting zapped.
This si not tortture ist jsut sceince.

Posted at 2:10 pm on May 29th, 2007 by Anil

Oh my god. Science is surely developing amazingly fast these days…

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