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Earlier this semester, we were asked to read a primer on evolutionary psychology, which seeks to discover and understand the design of the human mind and determine which human psychological traits are the result of natural selection. As humans, we tend to think that we are smarter than animals because we are ruled by reason, unlike . . . → Read More: Our complex brain is not meant for modern life

After hours of downloading, installing, unisntalling, searching, downloading, installing, drivers for the USB modem for my LG android phone…and for widnows vista…. I took my wife’s’ computer, which has windows 7 and started from scratch all over again

After half a hour I had it running (I had all the correct installers that I needed) and understood . . . → Read More: Advances in Blue Tooth… but not there yet.

Concept;
Wearable mind controller

Target;
who want to control their feelings or mind, especially anxiety, anger or excitements

Scenario;

If someone can read your mind unintended consequence, it’s going to be embarrassed. Yes, reading someone’s mind through physical/ psychological reaction has a long and legendary history, which means we can’t easily to hide ourselves feelings. We are often forced ourselves to . . . → Read More: Cyborg_ Wear It

The electret microphone that I’ve assembled to attach to my throat is not a relic of my hunter-gather ancestry. The device feels quite modern and not at all a product of evolutionary biology. My thoughts about it feel the same: this sensor is not at all a product of my evolutionary psychology. The ability . . . → Read More: The Supernormal Stimuli of My Own Breath

i forgot to mention that i’ve also begun using a dandelion — a bluetooth enabled module that one of our new first years at ITP designed and built himself ! (very impressive work by deqing.) the dandelion runs on 3.3 to 5v so it’s very easily portable and can communicate via bluetooth to my android device.

because . . . → Read More: [cyborg]+

I’ve done a lot of brainstorming for the next bits of information I’d like to capture from a sexual encounter. It’s been difficult to figure out what type of sensors I would use. Maybe the class can help. Here is a rough list of my ideas:

- ***bends: capture the amount of bend from the neck, back, . . . → Read More: Sexcapade update

Leda Cosmides and John Tooby’s article

Evolutionary psychology deals with decoding the instincts that we may be “programmed with”,  or tendencies passed down through our genetic makeup, and tries to explain our behavior through the lens of these tendencies.  “These circuits organize the way we interpret our experiences, inject certain recurrent concepts and motivations into our mental . . . → Read More: evolutionary Psychology

this week’s assignment was to make a sensor wearable. last week i was working with the zeo to read brain wave activity via the serial port to processing. i’ve made some progress translating the raw data from it’s particular ASCII serial protocol format into something that’s human readable (much thanks to tom igoe on this one). . . . → Read More: [cyborg]