Archive for August, 2007

Out of body experience

Recently at EPFL, Olaf Blanke’s team designed an experiment that uses conflicting visual-somatosensory input in virtual reality to disrupt the spatial unity between the self and the body. Humans normally experience the conscious self as localized within their bodily borders. This spatial unity may break down in certain neurological conditions such as out-of-body experiences, leading [...]

Mind and behavior

Venture Capital

I often read that word “venture capital” and I recently realized that I do not have a clear definition of this concept in mind. It is why it’s worth having some quotes about the subject. Thirst of all, the “Wikipedia definition of Venture Capital”

Venture capital is a type of private equity capital typically provided by [...]

technologies

Social media is…

The aim of this post is twofold: testing the embed function of slideShare presentation and share this interesting presentation about what social media is by Lee White:

Society, technologies

What we can learn from spaghetti sauce

in an interesting talk, Malcolm Gladwell follows the career of a food industry consultant who uncovered a key secret to what eaters like. Running huge focus groups to find customers’ truest tastes, Gladwell’s hero draws a radical conclusion, an epiphany that has defined food marketing ever since.

Why do I blog this? This is an [...]

Society, Sociology

Manual Input Sessions.

I descovered recently this interesting concept by Golan Levin and Zachary Lieberman about a musical concept using hand gestures and figers movements in a audiovisual.

Our concert is performed on a combination of custom interactive software, analog overhead projectors and digital computer video projectors. The analog and digital projectors are aligned such that their projections overlap, [...]

Electronic-Music, Music Software, hardware, technologies