Specific highlights include: Keitai Girl, meaning 'mobile phone girl,' presents futuristic predictions of human beings who have implanted electronic communication devices all over their bodies. The technologies offer expansive possibilities including electronic built-ins and enhanced audio capabilities.
The No-Contact Jacket is a wearable defensive jacket created to protect women from violence. When activated by the wearer, 80,000 volts of low amperage electric current pulses just below the surface of the jacket preventing any would-be attacker from contact with the wearer's body.
The Computer Hood facilitates an amplified engagement between the user and their preferred technology. It secludes the person in a digital enclosure where the outside world is a memory and attention is undivided. People outside are encouraged to 'speak' towards a marked area on the back of the hood. Anything they say will be recorded and saved as an audio file on the computer desktop for perusal at the computer user's leisure.
Private interviews are available with Amanda Parkes or Josh Strickon, SIGGRAPH 2006 Special Sessions Chair from New York Times Company upon request.
SIGGRAPH 2006 will bring an estimated 25,000 computer graphics and interactive technology professionals from six continents to Boston, USA for the industry's most respected technical and creative programs focusing on research, science, art, animation, gaming, interactivity, education, and the web from 30 July to 3 August 2006.
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