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Chris Harrison, a graduate student at Carnegie Mellon University and a former intern at Microsoft Research, has developed software called Skinput, which uses the body as an input source. Skinput’s technology creates a method of controlling electronic devices by tapping different parts of the body. Designed for keypads and buttons that are sometimes too small to use on cell phones and media players, Skinput merges man and machine like never before.

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• http://www.chrisharrison.net/projects/skinput/
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3XPUdW9Ryg

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The Kawasaki and Mouri Laboratory at Gifu University in Japan are researching and developing a touch interface which, combined with 3D displays, could offer a new way to simulate the touching of objects. HIRO III is a haptic interface robot that can provide realistic sensations to the user’s hands and fingers. The laboratory is currently working towards putting the haptic technology to work in the medical field, particularly for breast cancer screening.

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• http://www.gifu-u.ac.jp/english/index.rbz
• http://robo.mech.gifu-u.ac.jp/en/Research/Haptic/index.html
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxlYY0xo4gk

Apple is ready to release its second-generation iPad, the iPad 2. The slimmer, sleeker and speedier device will feature a 1GHz dual-core A5 chip and cameras both on the front and the rear. The iPad 2 is 33 percent thinner and up to 15 percent lighter than its predecessor, while still offering 10 hours of battery life. The graphics performance is said to be up to nine times better than on the original iPad, and offers many new features that will enhance the way you work and play.

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• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLbSBY1DwEE
• http://www.apple.com

By offering the possibility of always bringing music along for the ride, the walkman became one of the most popular gadgets in the 1980’s. Today, times have changed. Swedish company Tonium has created a way for people to deejay anywhere and anytime. Pacemaker, a portable audio mixer, allows people to create music in a simple and efficient manner at any time.

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• http://www.pacemaker.net/

At the “Design and The Elastic Mind” exhibit at The Museum of Modern Art in New York City, the Nokia Research Center and the University of Cambridge’s Nanoscience Centre unveiled the Morph concept. Using nanotechnology, this cellular phone of the future could be flexible, transparent, and self-cleaning. Morph, unveiled at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, could become our guide to living a healthier and more efficient life through new, eco-friendly applications. While this phone is only a concept at the moment, the manufacturer believes that some of the imagined features could appear in devices by 2015.

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• http://www.nokia.com/about-nokia/research/demos/the-morph-concept
• http://www.nokia.com/about-nokia/research/demos/the-morph-concept/video
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IX-gTobCJHs

In the future, a night at the bar will be an interactive and visual experience with the British company Mindstorm’s iBar , the intelligent surface system. This bar-counter is able to detect all objects touching the surface and objects can be illuminated. The bar has integrated video-projectors, which can project any image onto the countertop. iBar’s tracking system can detect any object that is placed on the bar, and the lights can interact dynamically with the object.

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• http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=FR&hl=fr&v=iaKehq6qsdY
• http://www.i-bar.ch/en/info/

If you think computers have already revolutionized the education world, this new technology will further transform learning into an interactive and fun activity. Augmented reality is a system based on a technique that allows the user to become immersed into a world where both real and virtual objects coexist. New Zealand’s HIT Lab (The Human Interface Technology Laboratory) has been working on integrating augmented reality into every part of our lives.

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• http://www.hitlabnz.org
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKw_Mp5YkaE

Andy Warhol’s biography is not just a series of events, but actually a story about life: it is the story of an existence tied to all that has been described as creative. Andy Warhol’s biography is the testimony of an artistic genius, who, thanks to its sensibility, has foreseen every artistic trend and period. Here are three tips for today’s artist from someone who knew how to live in the future, and still be successful in the present.

Born the son of a Slovakian immigrant, Andrew Warhola was born in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania on August 6th, 1928. His talents were vast and plentiful: painter, sculptor, photographer, director, actor, music producer, television star, model, and advertiser. His life was a continuous search for the unknown, and lived in the future as if it were the present. Today it can be said that his life was a culmination of all that was innovative and radical in the 60’s, during the time of Pop Art and underground film, as well as in the 70’s and 80’s during the beginning of the postmodern era.

The famous Factory, where his paintings and films took form, was his private Hollywood; a forge of dreams, and a crossroad where friends, prostitutes, artists, and important gallery owners could all meet to share thoughts and ideas. It was the groundbreaking place for the fashion revolution, where it could all happen, and happened. Why was Warhol so unique? He had the extraordinary ability to penetrate the woven threads of contemporary culture and reveal both the positive and negative peculiarities of American society.

Who was actually the artist who changed contemporary art? Who knew how to live in the present, while always looking towards the future? From the depths of Warhol’s creativity and artistic genius, here are three tips about life and art:

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• http://www.warhol.org

Arnaldo Pomodoro is more than an artist and goldsmith; his brilliance comes from his innovative visions. Here are some valuable thoughts from the artist himself, his predictions about life, art, and the future.

The worldwide reputation of Arnaldo Pomodoro has humble origins. He was born in Morciano di Romagna, Italy on June 23, 1926. After the birth of his brother, Gio Pomodoro, another sculptor whose talent is recognized on an international level, his family moved from the beautiful countryside to Pesaro. It was here in this city where the brothers were able to study and produce their first artistic creations. Arnaldo served as a consultant for the restoration of public buildings in Pesaro, while studying stage design and working as a goldsmith.

After the death of their father in 1954, Arnaldo and Gio moved with the rest of their family to Milan, and began to immerse themselves in the art culture. His work was first exhibited that year at the Galleria Numero in Florence and at the Galleria Montenapoleone in Milan. In 1955 his sculpture was shown for the first time at the Galleria del Naviglio in Milan.

During the late 1960s and early 1970s he executed commissions for outdoor sculpture in Darmstadt, New York, and Milan. In 1995 the Municipality of Rimini commissioned him to make a sculpture in memory of Federico Fellini; in 1996 the work Sfera con sfera of diameter 3.30 metres was placed in the United Nations square in New York; and in 1998 he received a commission to create the portal of Cefalù cathedral.

The list of his accomplishments and awards from Arnaldo’s career is long and prestigious. The portrait of his life that so far has been painted is one of an artist who expresses himself through his Italian identity, but is always ready to lead his talents in new and innovative directions. And what about his art? His art maintains its roots in the past, gives attention to the present, and is always one step closer to the future.

From the eyes of an artist, here are some reflections about art, the present, and the future:

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• http://www.fondazionearnaldopomodoro.it/