The Internet is a Human Sense? Who Would Have Thunk It?

After reading the article received to us about the MIT students creating a way to enhance the human sense through creating a way for humans to interact with technology (I liked the idea that our senses come from something we have seen on the internet or other media and how it incorporates into how we react). Thus in saying that, I appreciated Pattie Maes idea of creating a way for our ‘senses’ to interact by having a wrist band read labels to even see if it has any peanut extract (it just enables us as the users to look at information that normally would take a lot of time out of our fast-paced lives to read a label (I know I make it sound like we’re lazy, but I can vouch for that I’m so lazy its pathetic)) and have just green or red flash in response to whether the content is in the food or not. Even possibility for other devices to enable easy interaction and to gain knowledge with the world, was really interesting.

When watching the videos, I knew it somehow had a quality similar to a phone or something quite similar, but it was still so interesting to read about how they created a way for the ‘computer’ to react, not just by physical human interaction with the machine; it was done through the human’s interaction with everything else. After reading the article I got somewhat a feel of the technology, but actually seeing the invention on the video helped give a better perspective (I’m so dyslexic like that, plus I have bad ADD, plus being an artist I’m a VERY, very visual learner). Especially the part with the email, how amazing is that to just draw with your finger in the air the @ symbol to read your email which normally takes at least your fingers interacting with the technology physically or even to have a pad be projected on your hand so you can call people through the phone. To me as an artist, when you think about this, it can lead to great possibilities in interactive media. I mean, yes we have machines created for artistic uses, but by using the projectile, or the same ability as creating an @ with your finger, you can create one of a kind works of art, like a technological version of a monotype, or interactive media that is evolving with its use that it of course is another one of a kind thing. Very spontaneous. So the possibility of having a ‘non interacting’ media can truly create wonders not just for the technological, but also the art world as well. Yes of course there is the flaw that it is so much like a phone and the projection ability is soon to be available to all phones, but at the same time it creates this need for artists and the like to want to find ways to take that and invent something new with that, and even those in just the technological side to it. So the availability will create this want to push it a step further, I can’t wait to see what comes from this.