{"id":3,"date":"2007-09-14T12:56:37","date_gmt":"2007-09-14T19:56:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/berserkr.ca\/NewMedia\/?p=3"},"modified":"2007-09-25T10:40:50","modified_gmt":"2007-09-25T17:40:50","slug":"week-2-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/berserkr.ca\/thesis\/week-2-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 2 Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Plan:<\/strong>To make a wearable, mobile technology outfit. Or in short, to become a cyborg.<\/p>\n<p><strong> The Reason: <\/strong>From my observations mobile technology (like Ipods and <a href=\"http:\/\/sfgate.com\/c\/pictures\/2004\/03\/15\/bu_startrek09.jpg\">Bluetooth Earpieces<\/a>, etc.) has lead to people becoming more isolated in public situations.<\/p>\n<p>Over the summer I went to a Daft Punk concert wearing my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thinkgeek.com\/tshirts\/generic\/8a5b\/\">T-Qualizer<\/a> t-shirt and people went crazy for it! One stranger bought be a beer, a young asian girl on ecstasy came up and started touching my shirt and smiling at me and lots and lots of people came up to ask me where I got the shirt, how much they loved it, etc.<\/p>\n<p>So my plan is to make some wearable mobile technology that would encourage people to interact with me and vice versa.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Possible Components:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Partial Face Mask with Voice Modulator<\/li>\n<li>Metallic Left Arm for Power Storage<\/li>\n<li>Vest or Webbing for LED or LCD displays<\/li>\n<li>Audio Input\/Output<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.coolneon.com\/\">Electroluminescent Fiber<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>My Inspirations:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.daftpunk.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Daft Punk<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/wearcam.org\/mann.html\">Steve Mann<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thinkgeek.com\/tshirts\/generic\/8a5b\/\">The T-Qualizer<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Neill_Blomkamp\">Neill Blomkamp<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ghost_in_the_Shell\">Ghost in the Shell<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cyberpunkfilm.com\/\">Cyberpunk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This week I met with Dave, Lila and Kathleen and everyone seems to be on board with my project.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Dave suggested that I focus on aesthetics, depending on my budget I can use technologies to make everything look neat and presentable. I should learn how people interact with Steve Mann and think about what kind of experience I want to create.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>I am waiting from Lila to hear about a faculty member at Ryerson that works with wearable technologies.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Kathleen suggested I investigate <a href=\"http:\/\/www.berzowska.com\/\">Joey Berzowska<\/a> and the lecture she gave at Ryerson last year. She also suggested I get in contact with some students from the Fashion Faculty to collaborate on some of the clothing\/wearable components.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Plan:To make a wearable, mobile technology outfit. Or in short, to become a cyborg. The Reason: From my observations mobile technology (like Ipods and Bluetooth Earpieces, etc.) has lead to people becoming more isolated in public situations. Over the summer I went to a Daft Punk concert wearing my T-Qualizer t-shirt and people went [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/berserkr.ca\/thesis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/berserkr.ca\/thesis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/berserkr.ca\/thesis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/berserkr.ca\/thesis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/berserkr.ca\/thesis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/berserkr.ca\/thesis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/berserkr.ca\/thesis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/berserkr.ca\/thesis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/berserkr.ca\/thesis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}