Brainbar is a mechanical bar that mixes drinks adapted to the visitor's brainwaves. The customer wears a sensor-studded headband and the robot bartender reads the brain frequencies(electroencephalogram) in the alpha and beta wavelength. These wavelengths are generally considered to indicate the states of relaxation and activity in the mind.
Depending on how the bar is tuned it will then mix a drink to enhance or suppress the guest's feelings. BrainBar is a kind of manipulator that gives a party its perfect state of enhanced socialising, adjusting the drinks so that every guest stays within acceptable parameters for a "good" behaviour or, if the settings allow, a "bad" one.
The project explores how much a person is prepared to submit to external forces and how far s/he can allow a machine to intrude on the body.
February 22, 2005
Brainbar fix me a (What am I thinking)?
Brainbar is a mechanical bar that mixes drinks adapted to the visitor's brainwaves. The customer wears a sensor-studded headband and the robot bartender reads the brain frequencies(electroencephalogram) in the alpha and beta wavelength. These wavelengths are generally considered to indicate the states of relaxation and activity in the mind.
Depending on how the bar is tuned it will then mix a drink to enhance or suppress the guest's feelings. BrainBar is a kind of manipulator that gives a party its perfect state of enhanced socialising, adjusting the drinks so that every guest stays within acceptable parameters for a "good" behaviour or, if the settings allow, a "bad" one.
The project explores how much a person is prepared to submit to external forces and how far s/he can allow a machine to intrude on the body.
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