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Memory
Design a device to assist and exploit novel opportunities for memory storage, feedback and sharing.
Registration Deadline June 30
Entry Deadline July 10
Memory is critical to the function of machines, individuals, cultures, institutions. Cells, creatures and machines use a variety of I/O and storage processes. Current and emerging technologies (powerful but cheap storage devices, wireless communication, embedded sensors and networks, genetic manipulation, ubiquitous computing) promise an explosion of data storage capacity at every level, from the cellular and micromechanical to global systems. What implications do these technologies have for the role of memory in everyday life?
PSC77 Challenge #1 is to design a device to assist and exploit novel opportunities for memory storage, feedback and sharing. It should be designed to solve some sort of personal need-entertainment, work, social, creative, political, etc. It should be based on existing or emerging technologies, not on magic or nonexistent materials.
Following are some additional thoughts:
Memory Selection
Choosing what kinds of information or experiences are stored is the essential first step in any system. Can novel memory systems make more from less? In a ubiquitous-data environment, are there new things that we should consider worth remembering?
Memory Capture
What kinds of sensors are needed, what resolution is required-sharp or fuzzy-and in what medium does that database get stored?
Memory Mining
How does stored information-kept separate or aggregated-become useful, dangerous, relevant? |
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Judges are staff members of Core 77 and Popular Science. Intellectual property rights will remain with the designer, although Popular Science retains the nonexclusive right to republish any winning design in a future issue, a compilation article, or in a book or Website. Work should be original for the challenge, or a significant modification and extension of work already done.
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It is quick and easy, start here:
1. REGISTER NOW
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Registration is closed at this time.
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2.DESIGN AND PREPARE
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| Do your designing, sketching, modeling, etc. then format your entry in the following way:
Create three jpeg images, 1024 x 768, at 72 dpi
The set of images must tell the story of the design at three scales:
- one image showing context
- one image showing object
- one image showing details, exploded view, etc.
Write a one page description of design (max. 500 words)
Write a one paragraph designer bio (max. 200 words)
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3. SUBMIT YOUR WORK
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Attach your files to an e-mail and send them to:
challenge@core77.com
IMPORTANT
Include your registration number in the subject line of your email.
All done!
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