That
laptop in front of you is hiding a beautiful secret. Radiating from its
hard drive, optical drive and tiny motors is a force field of magnetic
and electric charges. Called an electromagnetic field, it’s invisible to
the human eye—usually. But a recent project from two designers at the
Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design have made the invisible
visible. Luke Sturgeon and Shamik Ray have
created light paintings from the EMFs emitting from our everyday
electronics. The result are ghoulishly pretty images showing wisps of
light floating above a laptop and flowing from a radio’s speaker.
Though the images are beautiful, the information we can glean from them is still abstract. Sturgeon says they don’t yet have a way to quantify how strong each EMF is, though he notes that the EMF from the laptop hard drive was so strong it would stall the phone’s magnetic sensor. Ultimately, the team would like to use the research they’ve done to create a standardized method to visually monitor a device’s EMF. “We would like to define a suitable and consistent visual language that can be used to measure and compare any type of object that emits a magnetic field,” Sturgeon said.
Read Full Article : http://www.wired.com/
Though the images are beautiful, the information we can glean from them is still abstract. Sturgeon says they don’t yet have a way to quantify how strong each EMF is, though he notes that the EMF from the laptop hard drive was so strong it would stall the phone’s magnetic sensor. Ultimately, the team would like to use the research they’ve done to create a standardized method to visually monitor a device’s EMF. “We would like to define a suitable and consistent visual language that can be used to measure and compare any type of object that emits a magnetic field,” Sturgeon said.
Read Full Article : http://www.wired.com/
No comments:
Post a Comment