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Life Imitates Art at Intel

Posted by michael on from the ships-passing-in-the-night dept.

figa writes "Eric Paulos and Elizabeth Goodman at Intel's Research Laboratory at Berkeley are using the Situationists' exploration of urban space and psychologist Stanley Milgram's social experiments to design wearable devices."

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  1. pssst.... by Doc+Ruby · · Score: 4, Funny

    I hope they figure out a way to discreetly "wink" to a stranger in the room, without invading their privacy, or already having their phone#, over a mobile phone.

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    make install -not war

  2. Situationism by Aardpig · · Score: 3, Funny

    From one of the links:

    Our conception of a "constructed situation" is not limited to an integrated use of artistic means to create an ambiance, however great the force or spatiotemporal extent of that ambiance might be. A situation is also an integrated ensemble of behavior in time. It is composed of actions contained in a transitory decor. These actions are the product of the decor and of themselves, and they in their turn produce other decors and other actions. How can these forces be oriented?

    Call me a philestine, but I have no *fucking* idea of whether it's good or whether it's whack.

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    1. Re:Situationism by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny
      Call me a philestine, but I have no *fucking* idea of whether it's good or whether it's whack.

      It's good and it's whack. The reason you can't make head nor tail of this is because you must first perform a paradigm shift of your perception. Then you will see that what matters most is not content but impressions about what you read. Then even if the description doesn't make any sense by itself, the impression that it radiate acts as the most precise description of it.

    2. Re:Situationism by stienman · · Score: 3, Funny

      The reason you can't make head nor tail of this is because you must first perform a paradigm shift of your perception.

      Just a word of warning - whenever you suggest to someone that they shift their paradigm, keep in mind that they may not have a clutch! This will explain the awful grinding noise and possible brain stalling that follows.

      You've been warned.

      -Adam

  3. Re:That's interesting... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Score 4: Interesting for a thinly veiled "Imagine a beowulf cluster of these!" gag. Not bad!

  4. Re:Think different? by dipipanone · · Score: 3, Funny

    Ed Bradley might be on 60 minutes but he's just a nigger to the rest of us.

    Excuse me. You left forgot to complete your sentence. I believe you meant to write:

    "...to the rest of us in-bred hillbilly trailer trash."

    Hope this helps.

  5. Phew! by holizz · · Score: 3, Funny

    I thought for a second these wearable devices would be telling their wearers to shock people to death. But apparently it was based on another of Milgram's ideas.