<div dir="ltr">There's a few wearable computing groups in Toronto doing some cool stuff, and the universities there have some really exciting courses [0]<div><br></div><div style>They had an exhibition while I was there recently with some really cool stuff [1]</div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">I particularly like the technologies which connect people, like Closeness [2] - interactive jewellery which glows different colors according to your distance from the paired device.  But you could go further with this.  In the zine Designing The Future Of Sex [3], they suggest a bracelet with a heart rate monitor, gsm modem and actuator to mirror each other's pulse - which we can't be too far from being able to actually create.  Since the zine is obviously NSFW, I'll paste an excerpt here:</div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_extra">Obviously, at first a bracelet like this would be distracting. </div><div class="gmail_extra">Eventually, though, given enough time to get used to the stimulus, does </div>
<div class="gmail_extra">it fall into sensory integration? If so, what does that end up meaning—</div><div class="gmail_extra">can you tell when someone wakes up, what the rhythm of their day is, </div><div class="gmail_extra">
just from a heartbeat? How does it cross over into in-person interactions?</div><div class="gmail_extra">There are some studies that have shown that even loud music can apply a</div><div class="gmail_extra">synchronizing effect to the heart’s rhythm—would this do that? What </div>
<div class="gmail_extra">happens when you have multiple partners, and receive multiple </div><div class="gmail_extra">heartbeats via different actuators</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra" style>
There are some other really interesting ideas in that zine, many of which we could at least build the first generation of today.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra" style>I'm at the Keighley Worth Valley Railway's diesel gala all this weekend, but I wish you all be best with this workshop and look forward to hearing about what creations you come up with.</div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">[0] <a href="http://www.ocadu.ca/students/records_registration/course_calendar/1213/postgraduate/certificate_programs/wearable_technology.htm">http://www.ocadu.ca/students/records_registration/course_calendar/1213/postgraduate/certificate_programs/wearable_technology.htm</a></div>
<div class="gmail_extra">[1] <a href="http://webspace.ocad.ca/~technosapien/">http://webspace.ocad.ca/~technosapien/</a></div><div class="gmail_extra">[2] <a href="http://webspace.ocad.ca/technosapien/index.php/projects/closeness/">http://webspace.ocad.ca/technosapien/index.php/projects/closeness/</a></div>
<div class="gmail_extra">[3] <a href="http://anarchotranshumanzine.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/dfos.pdf">http://anarchotranshumanzine.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/dfos.pdf</a></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">
-- </div><div class="gmail_extra" style>Regards</div><div class="gmail_extra" style>Alice</div><div class="gmail_extra" style><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 23 April 2013 20:46, Andrew Back <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:andrew@carrierdetect.com" target="_blank">andrew@carrierdetect.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">Hello,<br>
<br>
This Saturday Bridge Rectifier are hosting a wearable computing<br>
workshop, that will be based around LilyPad Arduino, at the town hall<br>
in Hebden Bridge. Further details and registration can be found at:<br>
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  <a href="http://brwearable.eventbrite.co.uk/" target="_blank">http://brwearable.eventbrite.co.uk/</a><br>
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Cheers,<br>
<br>
Andrew<br>
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--<br>
Andrew Back<br>
<a href="http://carrierdetect.com" target="_blank">http://carrierdetect.com</a><br>
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</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br>Mx Alice Kaerast<br>Devops supergirl, agile coach, corporate sysadmin, optimisationeer
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