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things I made at ITP and after: sketches, prototypes, and other documentation

Wednesday, October 17, 2007

Hammerhead

Assignment:
Choose one of your senses, appendages or behaviors and augment or frustrate it technologically.

I built a device to frustrate my normal vision by forcing my eyes to look out the side of my head rather than straight ahead. Its design was inspired by animals such as the hammerhead shark, which do not look forward as humans do.

Hammerhead 043

Hammerhead 047

The following series of pictures document the process of designing and making two prototypes.

Hammerhead 001 Hammerhead 002 Composite Mockup Hammerhead 004 Hammerhead 005 Hammerhead 008 Hammerhead 010 Hammerhead 012 Hammerhead 016 Hammerhead 017 Hammerhead 018 Hammerhead 019 Hammerhead 020 Hammerhead 022 Hammerhead 023 Hammerhead 024 Hammerhead 025 Hammerhead 026 Hammerhead 027 Hammerhead 028 Hammerhead 029 Hammerhead 030 Hammerhead 031 Hammerhead 032 Hammerhead 034 Hammerhead 035 Hammerhead 036 Hammerhead 037 Hammerhead 038 Hammerhead 039 Hammerhead 040 Hammerhead 041 Hammerhead 042 Hammerhead 043 Hammerhead 045 Hammerhead 046 Hammerhead 047 Hammerhead 048 Hammerhead 050

posted by Michael at 12:40 am  

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