Event #3


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This week I went to the "Creating Fertile Ground ArtSci Collaboration" given by Austria Claudia Schnugg. I liked how she started off saying how usually Scientists and are not usually on the same page with their work but they in fact are very similar and can be used in collaboration to create world changing products.
"Unicorn- A Fashionable Brain Scan." G.tec. N.p., 18 Apr. 2016. Web. 25 May 2017.
One of the most interesting products that Schnugg discussed was the "Agent Unicorn". Agent Unicorn is a unicorn shaped head piece that has a camera that measure brain activity with share active dry electrodes. The horn shaped headpiece is used by people with ADHD and is used to help figure out what triggers their attention. When the attention of the user is high, the camera goes on and it record what is in front off the user. The headpiece was created in collaboration with neuroscientist, therapists, software and hardware.
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Another interesting product that Schnugg discussed was bebots. Bebots were, fictional, nanobots that worked as medicine that you can inhale. They're fictional nanobots that impact our conscious, subconscious, and autonomic nervous system and thereby induce desired changes in the brain and serve tracts. the Bebot is designed to regulate and influence our eating habits.

All around, I really enjoyed what Schnugg presented. I think she discussed some products that could very much change the world. ADHD and diabetes is something that is very prominent in the US and she introduced them further and how they could change the world.

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