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July 7, 2008

The Cloud - MIT Creates Pseudo Organic Life Form Made of Carbon Glass Cloud

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If you want to make a pseudo organic life form in the shape of a cloud, you're going to need 15,000 individually controlled optical hairs, and lots of patience. The MIT mobile experience lab's latest experiment is The Cloud, a pseudo-organic life form made of carbon glass that perceives humans using hundreds of sensors. There's something strangely familiar, and creepy about the cloud. Perhaps in the future, the MIT lab can develop wind, and other forms of weather that respond to viewers.

Via Gizmodo

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Posted by Jay Brewer at July 7, 2008 8:03 AM

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