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href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130509074457/http://whatsnext.blogs.cnn.com/2013/05/08/testing-touchscreen-tables-in-classrooms/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link:Testing touchscreen tables in classrooms">Testing touchscreen tables in classrooms</a></h2> <div class="cnnBlogContentPost"> <p class="cnn_first">By <strong>Heather Kelly</strong>, CNN</p> <p>Forget tiny iPads - the classrooms of the future might turn entire tables into interactive touchscreens.</p> <p>Given that many children can sit rapturously before a glowing touchscreen for hours, such gadgets seem like a natural for the classroom. But as with any new teaching technology, it's important to make sure it actually helps students learn and teachers teach before getting caught up in its "cool" factor.</p> <p>A <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130509074457/http://www.ncl.ac.uk/press.office/press.release/item/lessons-to-be-learned-perfecting-the-classroom-of-tomorrow-today#.UYkqg5UzuZA">recent study by researchers</a> at Newcastle University in the UK took touchscreen tables into the classroom for some hands-on tests and found the technology (and training) still have to improve before they are fully effective. The researchers say theirs is one of the first studies of this type of technology in actual classrooms, instead of lab situations.</p> <p>The tables were used in real classrooms over the course of six weeks for lessons in geography, English and history. The five teachers involved in the study prepared the projects based on what the kids were currently learning in class. Each table was used by two to four students at a time, though the table's creators say it can hold up to six students. On the screen were<span style="font-size:13px;"> a collaborative writing program and an app called Digital Mysteries, which were designed specifically for large tabletop PCs.</span></p> <p>These types of tables are already commercially available and can be seen in the wild in locations like museums. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130509074457/http://smarttech.com/table">SMART Technologies</a>, for example, makes a table with a 42-inch, 1080p display for $7,749. The prices for these interactive tables will likely come down in the future, but they will still remain a big investment for any school district.</p> <p>And before schools invest heavily in these kinds of tools, the study's authors say that more in-class research and tweaks to the software should be done.</p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130509074457/http://schoolsofthought.blogs.cnn.com/">Read CNN's education blog: Schools of Thought</a></p> <p>A few of the issues raised were the same that come up in most group work. Some students would complete tasks faster than others, while others would lose focus and fall behind. Teachers in the study found they couldn't always tell when students were working versus just pretending to work and moving items around the screen.</p> <p>Suggested improvements to the tools included more detailed progress indicators for the individual students. Researchers also recommend that the apps add more flexibility so that teachers can control, change and pause the lessons. In an old-school twist, researchers also recommended that the programs include an option for exporting kids' progress so they can print it out.</p> <p>Researchers also emphasized the need for more teacher-friendly features and control over the apps, plus proper training for any educator who plans on integrating these types of tables with their regular classroom curriculum.</p> <p>"To make the most use of them teachers have to make them part of the classroom activity they have planned – not make it the lesson activity,” said Dr Ahmed Kharrufa in a statement.</p> <p>In other words, even the most advanced technology won't be able to replace good teachers.</p> <p>[Via <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130509074457/http://phys.org/news/2013-05-lessons-classroom-tomorrow-today.html">PhysOrg</a>]</p> </div> <div class="cnnPostFooter"> <table> <tr> <td> <div class="cnn_mugshot"> </div> </td> <td valign="top" class="cnn_padb20 cnn_author_info"> <span class="cnnBlogFiledBy">Post by:</span> 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href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130509074457/http://biomech.media.mit.edu/">MIT’s Biomechatronics Group</a> where they invent cutting edge bionic prosthetic limbs, exoskeletons and more. Herr and his team have mobilized their resources to assist the amputee victims of the Boston bombings in some profound ways. <span style="text-decoration:underline;">Watch more this Saturday at 2:30 p.m. EST on CNN’s “The Next List.”</span></em></p> <p>By <strong>Jared Markowitz</strong>, Special to CNN</p> <p>The events in Boston last week were tragic in many ways: human suffering was on display for the world to see, a city was locked down while killers were pursued, and a nation was once again forced to recognize its vulnerability to senseless acts of violence. A week later, the wound is still fresh. Our community continues to mourn the dead, treat the injured, and search for ways to eliminate such attacks. Many lives have been altered irreversibly, yet there is also an abundance of resiliency and hope.</p> <p>The bombings on Monday left many people with significant injuries and, in many cases, missing lower limbs. The horror of waking up with a different body as a result of a random act of terror should not be understated. Yet thanks to recent advances in prosthetic and rehabilitation technology, many of those who have suffered these devastating injuries have the hope of returning to a full and normal life.</p> <p>There is now a bionic ankle, foot and calf system that allows the user to walk as quickly and efficiently as non-amputees. Computer-controlled prosthetic knees have been developed that adjust knee resistance continuously, allowing above-knee amputees to walk with improved versatility and stability. Lightweight, compliant running prostheses make it possible for amputees to excel in both sprinting and distance events, including marathons. These technologies are all improving rapidly, with researchers constantly striving to produce more comfortable, responsive and life-like prosthetic limbs.</p> <p>Despite these advances, the road back from severe lower limb trauma can be long, arduous and expensive. To help those injured in the Boston bombings, the MIT Media Lab’s Biomechatronics Group has partnered with the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130509074457/http://www.masstlc.org/" target="_blank">Mass Technology Leadership Council</a> and <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130509074457/http://www.nobarriersusa.org/" target="_blank">No Barriers</a> on two initiatives.</p> <p>First, we are working with the Mass Technology Leadership Council to ensure that each amputee is provided with the assistive and rehabilitative solutions that best address their injury. To that end, if you have a technology that you believe could help those who suffered traumatic injuries please contact us at <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130509074457/http://www.masstlc.org/" target="_blank">www.masstlc.org</a>.</p> <p>Second, the No Barriers Boston Fund has been established to give the victims devices that will allow them to lead full and active lives. The fund will provide these people with prosthetic limbs designed for athletic activities so that they can run, bike, swim and even dance again. To donate to this important effort, please visit<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130509074457/http://www.nobarriersboston.org/" target="_blank"> www.nobarriersboston.org</a>.</p> <p>The symbolism of such events occurring around the Boston Marathon is difficult to ignore. Few endeavors provide such a ready analogy for the highs and lows of life as this race; it is a celebration of the city, running and the human spirit. While the motivations of those who run the Boston Marathon vary, everyone who participates has endured the grueling training required to qualify. During the marathon, runners are tested by the hills of Newton and the unavoidable "rough patches" that come with the marathon distance. 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Abramowitz, a three -time Nobel Peace Prize nominee, has been instrumental in helping Israel become one of the world’s major players in alternative energy. <em>A 30-minute profile of Abramowitz will air on CNN's "The Next List" coming soon!</em></p> <p>As we approach Earth Day we will hear a lot about the threat of global warming and how solar power could be part of a solution to save the environment.</p> <p>Israeli innovator Yosef Abramowitz is so convinced renewable energy is the answer he’s made it his mission to install solar fields all over the world. The activist, dubbed “Captain Sunshine” because of his superhuman efforts to save the planet, pioneered the concept of “impact investing” to make his solar dream work.</p> <p>“I went in completely naïve about how hard it was going to be. We have to do something very proactive, very immediate,” says Abramowitz. “The need to replace burning fossil fuels is a clear and imminent danger to survival of our species. We’ve innovated an idea by bringing together technology, finance and regulation to save the world through solar power.”</p> <p>His idea stemmed from what he calls a serendipitous trip to the desert. In 2006, looking for a more laid-back lifestyle, Yosef and his wife, Rabbi Susan Silverman (sister of the comedian Sarah Silverman), moved with their five kids — including two adopted from Ethiopia — to Kibbutz Ketura in southern Israel. Abramowitz was raised in Boston but had fond memories of volunteering at the kibbutz after high school.</p> <p>Yosef says their plan for a quiet family sabbatical changed as soon as they arrived.</p> <p>“The sun, even though it was setting, was just burning our skin. I thought, ‘I’m sure the whole place works on solar power.' ”</p> <p>But it didn’t, because solar power was non-existent in Israel. Abramowitz began taking classes in renewable energy and talking to people at the kibbutz about forming a company. 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Thrones'">David Peterson and the languages of 'Game of Thrones'</a></h2> <div class="cnnBlogContentPost"> <p class="cnn_first"><strong><em>Editor's Note</em>: </strong><em><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130509074457/http://whatsnext.blogs.cnn.com/2012/04/03/coming-up-on-the-next-list-game-of-thrones-language-creator-david-peterson/" target="_blank">David Peterson</a> is the creator of the Dothraki language used in the HBO show "Game of Thrones." Peterson </em><em>also is a member of the Language Creation Society. </em><em>A 30-minute profile of Peterson will air on CNN's "The Next List" this Sunday at 2:30 p.m. ET.</em></p> <p>By <strong>David Peterson</strong>, Special to CNN</p> <p>It's now a little over a year from the day when CNN’s "Next List" crew came to Orange County to do an episode on my language-creation work. At the time, I really had no idea what the coming year held in store for me, so I did my best to look busy.</p> <p>I had recently joined Syfy's "Defiance" as a language creator, but hadn't yet done any serious translation work, and while I'd finished my work on season two of HBO's "Game of Thrones," there'd been no discussions about season three up to that point. I remained hopeful, but that March I didn't really have much going on.</p> <p>During my first interview on the morning of twelfth, the "Next List" producer asked me if I'd be working on the Valyrian language for the show's upcoming season. Immediately alarm bells went off, as I started to think back and wonder, "Did I accidentally say anything?"</p> <p>Though there had been no discussions, I and many assumed that some form of the Valyrian language would make an appearance in season three, but at that stage, any such discussion would have been premature, and certainly would have been covered by a non-disclosure agreement. Trying not to look too perturbed, I asked why she would ask that, and she told me that when she'd interviewed executive producers Dan Weiss and David Benioff earlier, they'd said I'd be working on Valyrian this season.</p> <p>And that's how I learned I'd be creating a new language for season three of "<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130509074457/http://www.hbo.com/game-of-thrones/index.html">Game of Thrones</a>."</p> <p>For those tuning in to the "Game of Thrones" premiere this Sunday, you'll still have to suffer through a few subtitles, but the audio will sound a bit different from seasons past. Though there are a number of Dothraki speakers yet alive on the show, there's surprisingly little Dothraki this season. In its place is quite a bit of dialogue in two related languages: High and Low Valyrian.</p> <p>In George R. R. Martin's "A Song of Ice and Fire," High Valyrian was meant to occupy the place Latin occupies in the Western world. Latin was the language of the Roman Empire, spoken commonly for several centuries in and around the Italian peninsula and beyond. It's the mother language for all the Romance languages spoken today (Italian, Spanish, French, Catalan, Romanian, etc.).</p> <p>High Valyrian, in turn, was the language of Martin's Valyrian Empire, an expansive domain that existed for several millennia before it was destroyed by a mysterious event cryptically referred to as the Doom. In its purest form, High Valyrian still exists as a language of scholarship and refinement, though its impact on the region was far greater.</p> <p>High Valyrian was taken up and creolized by the old Ghiscari Empire, where it's still spoken at the time of action in the books and the show. And it served as the mother language for the various Low Valyrian languages spoke in the Free Cities of Volantis, Braavos, Myr, Pentos, Lys, etc.</p> <p>This season, I worked on two of the Valyrian languages: High Valyrian (the oldest form of the language) and the Low Valyrian spoken in and around Slaver's Bay. To translate sentences into the latter variety of Valyrian, I would first translate them into High Valyrian, and then apply a series of phonological, semantic and grammatical changes to the text. The resulting language is approximately as different from High Valyrian as Old Spanish is from Classical Latin.</p> <p>If you watch the "Game of Thrones" premiere, you'll hear some of the Slaver's Bay variety of Valyrian. Both Nathalie Emmanuel and Dan Hildebrand do an outstanding job with their lines. I was extraordinarily pleased with their performances, and I hope you enjoy them as much as I did.</p> <p>And even if languages aren't your thing, I hope the Valyrian won't distract you from what I think is a truly superlative premiere for season three.</p> </div> <div class="cnnPostFooter"> <table> <tr> <td> <div class="cnn_mugshot"> </div> </td> <td valign="top" class="cnn_padb20 cnn_author_info"> <span class="cnnBlogFiledBy">Post by:</span> <span class="cnn_author"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130509074457/http://whatsnext.blogs.cnn.com/tag/the-next-list-staff-cnn/" rel="tag">The Next List Staff -- CNN</a></span> <br/><span class="cnnBlogFiledBy cnn_categories">Filed under: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130509074457/http://whatsnext.blogs.cnn.com/category/innovation/" title="View all posts in Innovation" rel="category tag">Innovation</a> • <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130509074457/http://whatsnext.blogs.cnn.com/category/language/" title="View all posts 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In several instances, people left in a huff, or laughed off the notion of digital technology changing healthcare. Many of the physician-attendees said the change wouldn’t happen “for two decades.”</p> <p>The reactions interested me because, in my experience, where there is anger, there is also fear and irrationality.<br/> Just this week Congressional hearings debated digital medicine because lawmakers and regulators recognize that there are hundreds of millions of dollars—including the $10 million Tricorder X Prize—being invested in new, consumer-oriented technology. And these products will soon start hitting the market. 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class="cnn_first"><em><strong>Editor's note</strong>: Dr. Leslie Saxon is chief cardiologist at USC's Keck School of Medicine and founder of the Center for Body Computing, an innovation think tank dedicated to wireless health. For more on Saxon, watch "The Next List," Sunday at 2:30 p.m. ET on CNN. </em></p> <p>What if tracking your heart rate and blood pressure was as simple as getting your e-mail?</p> <p>That’s the future <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130509074457/http://www.usccardiology.org/facultyadmin-saxon_leslie.html">Dr. Leslie Saxon</a> imagines at the University of Southern California. She is chief of the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine at <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130509074457/http://keck.usc.edu/">USC’s Keck School of Medicine</a> and founded the university’s Center for Body Computing (known as the CBC). Saxon is determined to create digital tools that will allow doctors and patients to monitor and share health data.</p> <p>“It's almost obscene to think about how information is everywhere now and shared over the most trivial things, yet patients can't get even the data from an implanted device they have in their body. They're locked out,” says Saxon. “After 20 years, I finally understand that just telling the patient what to do in a paternalistic way doesn't result in good outcomes. Patients have to partner with you.”</p> <p>At the CBC, Saxon spearheaded a unique collaborative system with the university's schools of engineering, business and film, along with USC's athletics department, to research and develop wireless devices and health solutions.</p> <p>"The essence of digital health is interdisciplinary connectivity," says Carmen Puliafito, dean of USC's Keck School of Medicine. " And Leslie has been a true pioneer at that."</p> <p>“Within digital there’s a lot of ability to integrate different skill sets,” says Saxon, 53. “My brother’s a film producer. My husband’s a sportswriter. 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For more on Nicolelis and his work, watch "The Next List" this Sunday at 2:30 pm ET on CNN.</em></p> <p><b>Dr. Miguel Nicolelis: </b>“In our lifetime, we will see a paralyzed person walking the streets of New York or Sao Paulo.”</p> <p><b>Who he is</b>: Nicolelis is a neuroscientist and pioneer in the brain-machine interface, a technology that allows people and animals to interact with computers and other artificial devices using nothing but their <i>thoughts. </i>It may sound like a scene out of "2001: A Space Odyssey," but it’s happening today in the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130509074457/http://www.nicolelislab.net/">Nicolelis Lab</a> at Duke University’s Center for Neuroengineering. That’s where primates spend hours each day playing video games just by thinking about them.</p> <p><b>Why he matters:</b> By decoding the electrical signals of the brain, then sending them to artificial devices, Nicolelis has blazed a trail in an emerging field called neuro prosthetics. His goal: to help paralyzed people walk again. In just 18 months, he plans to “shock the world” by unveiling his mind-controlled exoskeleton - a sort of “wearable robot” - at the 2014 World Cup in Brazil. There, with hundreds of millions of soccer fans looking on, a paralyzed teenager will don the exoskeleton to literally kick off the opening ceremony and, Nicolelis hopes, teach the world that science knows no bounds.</p> <p>Nicolelis is not the only neuroscientist to experiment with mind-controlled prosthetics. But he insists his brain-machine interface can engage far more brain cells, or neurons, than others have even attempted. The result is a more finely tuned prosthetic, one that sends motor commands while simultaneously <i>receiving </i>sensory information: touch, for example, and temperature. These are the signals that help us make sense of our world.</p> <p>For that teenager at the World Cup, it means she’ll not only walk across the soccer pitch, she’ll feel every step she takes. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130509074457/http://whatsnext.blogs.cnn.com/2013/03/08/making-mind-controlled-exoskeletons-a-reality/" class="more-link">FULL POST</a></p> </div> <div class="cnnPostFooter"> <table> <tr> <td> <div class="cnn_mugshot"> </div> </td> <td valign="top" class="cnn_padb20 cnn_author_info"> <span class="cnnBlogFiledBy">Post by:</span> <span class="cnn_author"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130509074457/http://whatsnext.blogs.cnn.com/tag/the-next-list-staff-cnn/" rel="tag">The Next List Staff -- CNN</a></span> <br/><span class="cnnBlogFiledBy cnn_categories">Filed under: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130509074457/http://whatsnext.blogs.cnn.com/category/education/" title="View all posts in Education" rel="category tag">Education</a> • <a 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and his mind-controlled prosthetic limbs">Miguel Nicolelis and his mind-controlled prosthetic limbs</a></h2> <div class="cnnBlogContentPost"> <div> <p dir="ltr" class="cnn_first"><em>Brazilian-born Miguel Nicolelis is a professor of neurobiology at Duke University and a pioneer in the field of brain-machine-interfaces, in which brain waves from a human or animal control a robot-limb prosthethis. For more on Nicolelis and his work, watch "The Next List" this Sunday at 2:30 pm ET on CNN.</em></p> <p dir="ltr">By <strong>Miguel Nicolelis</strong></p> <p dir="ltr">For the past 30 years, I have dedicated my career as a neurobiologist to unveil the physiological principles that underlie how our brain circuits, formed by billions of interconnected cells, known as neurons, create the entirety of our human nature and history out of sheer electrical brainstorms.</p> <p dir="ltr">To pursue this quest, my colleagues and I at the Duke University Center for Neuroengineering have developed a variety of new methods and technologies to probe the brain in search of any hint, any glimpse that could place us on the right trail to answer the greatest mysteries of all times: how the entire wealth of the human mind emerges from a mesh of organic tissue.</p> <p dir="ltr">In 1999, John Chapin, my former postdoctoral advisor, and I published a scientific paper that introduced to the neuroscience community what by then seemed to be just another promising new experimental tool in brain research. Without much ceremony, we named this new experimental paradigm brain-machine interfaces (BMIs) and, in a flurry of papers that followed the original report, we described the technical details of our unorthodox combination of neurophysiological methods, real-time computing and robotics to create a direct and bidirectional interface between living animal brains and a variety of mechanical and electronic machines.</p> <p dir="ltr">In the late 1990s, our initial effort in building such devices was entirely motivated by the desire to establish a powerful experimental tool to carry on work related to the investigation of the neurophysiological principles that allow behavior, the true business of the brain, to emerge flawlessly and effortlessly, time and time again, from the widespread dynamic interactions of large populations of neurons that comprise any brain circuit.</p> <p dir="ltr">By the time our original papers were published in scientific journals, very few people, outside a small number of experts working in the emergent field of BMIs, could envision the enormous clinical potential that this newly acquired ability to interface brains and machines could unleash and how it could influence the future of rehabilitation medicine.</p> <p dir="ltr">What a difference 15 years make! After a mere decade and a half of intense research and stunning experimental demonstrations, brain-machine interfaces have become the core of a large variety of potential future new therapies for neurological disorders, such as untreatable epilepsy, Parkinson’s disease and devastating levels of body paralysis. Moreover, in the not so remote future, BMIs of a different variety may allow us to perform a lot of our daily routine tasks, such as interacting with our smartphones, just by thinking!</p> <p dir="ltr">Welcome to the era of brain-actuating technology; the age in which the brain’s voluntary desire to move will be liberated from the physical limits of the human body that host it.</p> <p dir="ltr">In the CNN show you are about to watch, you will be introduced to the Walk Again Project (WAP), the first worldwide, non-profit international brain research consortium aimed at building a new generation of robotic limb prostheses, which can be directly controlled by the subject’s own brain activity through a brain-machine interface. In the future, we hope that neuroprostheses such as the ones the WAP intends to build could be used to restore full-body mobility in tens of millions of severely paralyzed patients worldwide.</p> <p dir="ltr">To showcase to the entire world that this moment could be fast approaching, the WAP has proposed to have the first public demonstration of such a potentially revolutionary medical rehabilitation technology during the opening football match of the FIFA 2014 Soccer World Cup on June 12, 2014, in São Paulo, Brazil.</p> <p dir="ltr">According to this proposal, at 5:00 pm that afternoon, a Brazilian young adult, who is paralyzed below the waist down will emerge in the pitch wearing a robotic vest, known as an exoskeleton, whose movements are controlled by some sort of brain-derived signals. Then, using all his voluntary will, this true herald of a new era shall walk autonomously all the way to center field, and once there, kick a ball to deliver the official start of the World Cup.</p> <p dir="ltr">In essence, what we propose is that, in the land that invented the “beautiful game," the opening kickoff of the greatest sports event in the world becomes a scientific “Gol” to all of humanity.</p> <p dir="ltr"> </div> </div> <div class="cnnPostFooter"> <table> <tr> <td> <div class="cnn_mugshot"> </div> </td> <td valign="top" class="cnn_padb20 cnn_author_info"> <br/><span class="cnnBlogFiledBy cnn_categories">Filed under: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130509074457/http://whatsnext.blogs.cnn.com/category/innovation/" title="View all posts in Innovation" rel="category tag">Innovation</a> • <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130509074457/http://whatsnext.blogs.cnn.com/category/robots/" title="View all posts in Robots" rel="category tag">Robots</a> • <a 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Most of us, though, are too consumed with managing the daily blitz of life to do much about it. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:Arial;">Apart from the rising cost of gasoline, it’s easy to forget.</span></span></p> <p>But Saul Griffith is making it his mission to focus on the nuts and bolts of changing the energy equation. His goal is to transform the way America generates and uses power and make alternative energy the fuel of the future once and for all.</p> <p>Griffith is an inventor, engineer, scientist and recipient of a coveted MacArthur “genius” award. He also is co-founder of <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130509074457/http://www.otherlab.com/" target="_blank">Otherlab</a>, a hothouse of ideas and inventions where he and his team are developing technologies that could dramatically cut the cost of solar power, make it possible for cars to run on natural gas and change everything you think you know about robots.</p> <p>Wouldn’t it be cool if…? That’s the philosophy that guides all the work that Griffith and his colleagues do at Otherlab.</p> <p>“We try to skip a few generations in the things we’re working on,” says Griffith.</p> <p>For example: Wouldn’t it be cool if robots were made of cloth? One of Griffith’s most intriguing ideas is making <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130509074457/http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/bestoftv/2013/02/26/the-next-list-saul-griffith-preview-1.cnn" target="_blank">‘soft’ machines</a>.</p> <p>“We proposed to <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130509074457/http://www.darpa.mil/" target="_blank">DARPA</a>, here is a way that we could really transform the cost of robots. We’ll eliminate all the servo motors. We will eliminate the pins and bearing and joints. And we will sew you a robot out of fabric and use pressurized fluids to make it work," he says. "And it will reduce the cost of robots 100 fold. 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</div> </div> <div class="cnnRightPost"> <h2 class="cnnBlogContentTitle"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130509074457/http://whatsnext.blogs.cnn.com/2013/02/22/forging-a-new-future-in-fashion-with-technology/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link:Forging a new future in fashion with technology">Forging a new future in fashion with technology</a></h2> <div class="cnnBlogContentPost"> <p class="cnn_first"><em><strong>Editor’s note:</strong> <a href="www.dianaeng.com" target="_blank">Diana Eng</a> is a fashion designer and self-described geek who blends fashion and technology in surprising ways. Watch Diana’s full profile this Sunday at 2:30 p.m. ET on CNN’s “The Next List.”</em></p> <p>By <strong>Diana Eng</strong>, Special to CNN</p> <p>New York Fashion Week has just wrapped up. It's an event that reminds me twice a year of the moment I knew I was meant to be a fashion designer (as opposed to a computer programmer or electrical engineer).</p> <p>The first time I attended Mercedes Benz Fashion Week was for the Project Runway, season two show at Bryant Park. I sat in the front row and felt like royalty as a bunch of reporters came up to ask me questions; “Do you know how lucky you are to be sitting in the front row?” “Is this the best day of your life?” “Who do you think will win?” “Tell me a secret about the show without violating your contract.”</p> <p>I was still trying to get over the fact that I was actually at a fashion week show. Debra Messing walked by and said “Hi Diana” and I was like, “OMG, Debra Messing, you know my name!”</p> <p>And then two men came out and removed the plastic covering the runway, the lights started to dim and there was finally a hush. It was like unwrapping a present. The show was about to start and I was filled with excitement, pride and anticipation. At that moment there were so many possibilities, anything could come down the runway. I thought, “I am so excited to be a fashion designer!”</p> <p>Not everyone can relate the rush of fashion week, but we all have a personal relationship with the things we wear. They are our second skin. When someone sees us for the first time, our style conveys the first impressions about our personality.</p> <p>Clothing can also say a lot about the world around us. In the 19th century, women would have conveyed their personal style with hoop skirts and bustles made possible by new advances in steel making. We’ve made many technological advancements since the Bessemer process. In the 21st century, what will your fashion say about you?</p> <p>I like my fashion designs to make people stop and think twice. And I think that, like the hoop skirts of the 19th century, today’s technology can lead to new looks.</p> <p>Using a laser cutter I am able to distress t-shirts in lace patterns, adding a delicate touch to an otherwise rugged style. I create scarves with snowflakes that appear and grow in cold weather. I play with electronics - LEDs, electroluminescent wire, microcontrollers - to make clothing that reacts to sound and motion. I work with technicians to program fully fashioned (3D) knitting machines to automatically knit lace created by the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130509074457/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibonacci_number" target="_blank">Fibonacci</a> number sequence.</p> <p>I’m excited to see what possibilities the next generation of designers will come up with. I’ve had the privilege of teaching the Click@MoMA: Wearable Technology class for high school students through Eyebeam. My class toured the Museum of Modern Art to view paintings by Picasso and Mondrian, and we discussed how shapes could augment the human body. Then the students built inflatable clothing to augment their bodies. We viewed Monet’s Water Lilies to see how Impressionist artists used color and texture to express different seasons and moods. The students created videos to project images on to dresses so that the dresses could portray different moods. Today’s teens have never lived without the Internet or cell phones. As technology becomes a bigger part of our world, tomorrow’s designers will need a greater understanding of science to create relevant designs.</p> <p>It doesn’t matter how many fashion shows I attend, I still feel the same thrill when they peel back the plastic to start the show. 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