2010年10月27日 星期三

Most Interesting Technologized Bodies


I would like to choose Inter Dis-Communication Machine.

The two candidates wearing this machine exchange their visual perspectives, so that one can see what the other see. The equipment includes a heard-mounted display covering eyes and ears and a backpack with angel wings. Each HMD has two monitors and a video camera. The backpack is associated with a battery, a TV tuner and a transmitter. A TV antenna is installed inside the wings. The feather is a communication system for transmitting and receiving sensual experiences.

In appearance, the machine looks beautiful. It is intentionally designed to make the wearing person look like an angel. I think this is to increase the fancy feeling. Because, guess what, when we see in an absolutely different vision, we are attempting a stuff that human kind cannot do that! It's like going to a fatasyland! Not only the wearing person is joyful, but also those spectator beside are all entertained. The designer thought of this point. So such an appearnce can really facilitate the interest to try the machine.

The disigner claims that the purpose of the machine is to create a "double identity" or a "mutual identiity" for individuals. This interesting idea provides a preliminary trial to feel and think "where is myself". To my imaginaiton, the person wearing the machine may think himself an invisible man and feel like stealing the other's vision. However, his body is seen in the other place. The identity of "myself" is obscure. This may arouse the individual's curiosity to commit something generally prohibited in daily lives. This, I think, would be many people's dream. Fortunately, this machine is just forming an identity in vision only. The action would be still done by their own.

The two-way identity exchage aims at creating an identity to deal with "myself". He has to adapt himself to coordinate two identities. Videos shows that people trying the macine do not get used to it. That means to establish an actual double identity at the same time is quite a difficult thing. How on earth this idea could be developed to getting along with people and "myself" by exchange identiies? There must be a lot of interesting evaluation to be resulted through the amusing action of the people wearing the machine.

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