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'Our Cyborg Future?' Exhibition.
Fibretronic's cutting edge wearable electronic technologies are being showcased as part of a new UK exhibition called 'Our Cyborg Future?' at the Discovery Museum, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, running from 10th August to 27th October 2007. The exhibition looks at the shrinking divide between humans and technology to paint a vision of the future.
Image credit: The Biomedical Optics Research Laboratory, University College London
The Cyborg show ranges from robots designed to help elderly people, through to state-of-the-art devices for healthcare, fashion and sport, to devices that connect our minds to communication networks. The exhibition features a game where players control a ball using only the power of thought, to hearing aids that look like jewellery and the most cutting-edge technology in prosthetic limbs. There is also a prototype designer dress created by Hussein Chalayan that moves and changes shape while being worn.
"In recent times, the need to work in extreme environments has spurred attempts to overcome human limitations. Suits for space walking, deep sea diving and flying advanced fighters meet extreme but very practical needs. But cyborg-like technologies are emerging to meet civilian needs, too. Our Cyborg Future? highlights state-of-the-art prosthetic limbs, artificial organs, electromechanical devices and machines for health, care, fashion and sport. Artists and designers play with ‘technical textiles’ ‘intelligent jewellery’ and ‘smart architecture’ ".
For more information see the Discovery Museum website or Designs of the Time website.
