Paddy’s Valley at Tech Museum of Innovation, San Jose
Jan 19th 2008NiaLLLarkinPaddysValley2007 & bodyworlds & gunthervonhagens & paddysvalley & sanjose & shrdlu & techmuseum & winograd
From Paddy’s Valley 2007. This clip below was taken down in San Jose where we went to see Gunther von Hagens’ Anatomical Exhibition of Real Human Bodies,. REal human bodies = spell-binding blend of the fascination and horror. If you get a chance…its a must. (Photography was forbidden)
Afterwards we went upstairs into the Tech Museum of Innovation. Lots of fun to be had. You can stand on a platform that simulates earthquakes of different intensities (the ground jumps a HELL of a lot more than you would have thought) and insert jellyfish DNA into bacteria to make them flouresce.
The clip below is of a simple robot arm that picks up blocks to spell out a word of your choice. I like the echoes of Winograd’s SHRDLU natural language program here.
But I especially enjoy the way a small child beside us reads out “Paddy’s Valley”. Its a nice reminder of how technology has so much more to say when it ignites that human connection.