Screechy Theremin Fork Whines When You Try to Eat the Food Impaled On It
Posted by admin in Design on 26. Mar, 2011 | 0 Comments
This fork, demonstrated at Interaction 2011 and profiled by DigInfo, has an embedded theremin that begins making its unique and oddly unpleasant screeching noises once it touches a person, completing a circuit. But the pitch of the theremin changes based on the feedback from the fork’s tines: The more resistance it encounters, as when you’re [...]
Bionic Humans. Top 10 Technologies
Posted by admin in Electronics, Medicine on 08. Feb, 2010 | 2 Comments
Prosthetics for Your Brain Replacing a part of your brain isn’t as simple as replacing a limb, but in the future it could be. Theodore Berger, a professor at the University of Southern California, created a computer chip that could take the place of the hippocampus, a part of the brain which controls short-term memory [...]
