Posted on May 29, 2008 by safeliving
WALTER PICHLER. Small Room (Prototype 4), 1967 Photography: Werner Kaligofsky.
Generali Foundation, Vienna. © Generali Foundation
WALTER PICHLER TV-Helmet (Portable living room), 1967
This workshop explored ways in which the contemporary obsession with insecurity is generating new forms of technical promise, offering control and protection in the wars against terror and environmental apocalypse. Discussions ranged from Double Agents [...]
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Posted on May 17, 2008 by safeliving
Posted on May 12, 2008 by safeliving
BBC NEWS | World | Asia-Pacific | Japanese smokers to face age test
A Japanese company is developing a vending machine that counts wrinkles and skin sags to check a smoker’s age. The machines are equipped with a digital camera that can compare users’ facial characteristics with a database of more than 100,000 people.From July Japan’s [...]
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Posted on May 8, 2008 by safeliving
BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Pinpointing people in a crowd
A company claims new technology could save the police hours of time sifting through CCTV footage for suspects, by automatically searching for markings and colours on their clothing.
(tags: cctv NSOP_DSL surveillance)
BBC NEWS | UK | CCTV boom ‘failing to cut crime’
(tags: surveillance privacy security cctv NSOP_DSL)
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Posted on May 8, 2008 by safeliving
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Posted on May 6, 2008 by safeliving
BBC NEWS | UK | The parish gossip and the fascist vicar
(tags: FATE belief religion selfknowledge)
BBC NEWS | England | Tyne | Passenger ‘moons’ at speed camera
(tags: funny activism)
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Posted on May 1, 2008 by safeliving
A woman wears a Scapehood protection device, developed and manufactured by ILC February 25, 2003 in Frederica, Delaware. ILC started making the Scapehood for the general public and protects against chemical warfare agents and biological, radiological, and nuclear inhalation particulates. The Scapehood comes in an adult size and smaller sizes for children and [...]
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