"Furniture made from obsolete computers". Students made furniture out of "dead computers." The School of Computer Science donated 25 worthless computers, valued at about $250,000 only six years ago. The class tried to turn the C-junk into E-art. The pieces were exhibited in the College of Fine Arts Building Exhibition Hall, from Oct. 7 to Oct. 14, 2002. One of the pieces, "Sling Chair 49", made of hard-disks platters, was reported on Tartan newspaper.
"Fashion 2020", a telepresence fashion show using futuristic design that contains no fiber, no fur and no leather. Themed, "High-Tech. High-Touch in the year 2020", students had less than one week to design the fashions, shoot and edit the digital video. The final composition was telpresented at the "Design and Cognition" workshop in Bolzano, Italy on Sept. 4, 2002. A DVD version of the show is available upon request.
"CMU Wireless Tracking System". Ophir Tanz. Data is extracted from the wireless user database in order to pinpoint the position of an active node. The program retrieves a unqiue MAC address, the date and time of connection, signal strength and the access point that the MAC address is connected to.
"Interactive Drumming". Greg Li. This system can be used between two people in the same room or geographically separate places (via the Internet). One person can also use the system on his own by connecting to a computer that can analyze the person's drumming, or play back drumming to the person. Finally, larger bands of people can all connect together, for example in a teacher-class type environment where the teacher plays to all of the students, and then listens or feels back each of the students' playback one-by-one.
"Eye in the Sky Diet Tracking". Greg Li. By hiding a small camera into an overhead light fixture, and using a computer to process the images, this system records what is being eaten by recognizing food items it sees.
"WalletTab and Balanced Diet Tracker". Don Mosites and Justin Cinicolo. Handy dietary tracking systems, based on the concept of well rounded dietary management. The products integrate easily into your everyday life, and help you maintain a healthy balanced diet.