Gesture recognition Instrument

This could be the future of musical instruments; an invention that turns any surface into a musical instrument.

It has a microphone with a suction cup that allows you to stick it on any surface you choose: A tree, a table, a balloon. Depending on the different hand gestures that are played on that surface, a new sound is created.

My Designs: iPhone/iPod Touch Dock

This is my most recent design. It is an iPhone/iPod Touch Dock. I built it out of something called Kenex. I designed it so that there would be handles to carry the Dock from place to place. I also designed it so that you can plug earphones and the charger into the iPhone/iPod. 

One of the difficulties to make this was to create balance, so that the phone would not fall forwards or backwards. I will create a bigger version for iPad.

  

My Drawings: Romy's Room (Summer 2011)

Blending Art and Science

In the past few years, I have been fascinated by art, technology, science and especially the concept of the future.

I enjoy thinking of ideas and inventions.

My currant inspirations are Leonardo da Vinci, Luigi Colani, Syd Mead, Michio Kaku and Stephen Hawking.

Leonardo da Vinci was a painter, inventor, mathematician and scientist. He was the creator of the first clock and ‘helicopter’. One of his most well known paintings is the Mona Lisa. Luigi Colani is a futuristic Industrial Designer.

One of Luigi Colani's works

Syd Mead is also a futuristic Industrial Designer that creates complex drawings. Michio Kaku is a Theoretical physicist that published several books and has a television show about physics. Hawking is a Theoretical Physicist and Cosmologist. He dedicated most of his life to researching Black Holes.

My 11 Memorable Events of 2011

1. Hurricane Irene swept across the eastern coast of North America.

2. Space telescope Kepler discovered 207 Earth-like planets.

3. NASA discovered the fourth moon of Pluto called P4. 

4. A powerful tsunami engulfed the coast of Fukushima, Japan damaging the nuclear power plant and causing a radioactive disaster. 

5. Studies found out that cell phones effect the population of honeybee.

6. A computer learns languages by playing strategy games.

7. NASA’s space shuttle Endeavor took its last flight to space, marking the end and the beginning of a new era in space exploration. 

8. In the Collider, Switzerland, a particle was found that travels faster than the speed of light. 
9. Experts find a way to manipulate swimming robots 1.3 millimeters long by using electric currants in the water. 
10. Technicians in Japan made a bionic mouth that can sing songs.
11. I attended a Francis Bacon exhibition that was held in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

What are your memorable events from 2011?

Devil's Dream

This video is a violin performance that I performed at the Brooklyn Conservatory. At the performance, I played the piece Devil’s Dream.

 

My Drawings: Minuete1-2 (Spring2011)

The Curious mind of Leonardo Fibonacci

Fibonacci of Pisa (1170-1250), Italian Mathematician, an expert in algebra and geometry, pioneered number theories and indeterminate analysis. He was the creator of the well-known Fibonacci sequence, which is a number pattern.
For example: 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, e.t.c. The pattern here is: 1+2=3, 2+3=5, 3+5=8, 5+8=13, 8+13=21, e.t.c. This pattern can be infinite since numbers are infinite.
 

My Drawings: Kamie's Room (Summer 2011)

You are a Star child

I’ve been watching many fascinating documentaries from dinosaurs to space flights, from squids to King Akhenaton.

This time, I would like to highlight the documentary How the Universe Works.

This documentary is narrated by a few Astronomers and Physicists (as well as the Theoretical Physicists Michio Kaku), who explain the main properties of the universe, from the Big Bang to the fate of the whole universe and our Earth. 

Manet's eye for color

Eduard Manet (1832-1883) was a French painter who greatly influenced the Impressionists by using rich colors to make astounding affect in his art.
The Impressionists were a group of artists that were interested in the Realist’s point of view on art so they started working with Gustave Courbet and his fellow Realists.
Later, in the 1850’s, those artists campaigned against the influence of academic art since academic art used historic, religious and mythological themes.

Young Man in the Costume of a Majo

The Impressionists were also very influenced by Japanese woodblock prints that just then reached the West. They liked the bright colors used by the Japanese and the casual behavior of the figures in the artworks.
They were also very influenced by early photography. It showed exactly the way that animals and humans walked.
But, the Impressionists did celebrate modern Parisian life. They painted chores, landscape and everyday life. Adding shades and sparkles from light were important touches to their artwork since they usually preferred working outside.

My Ideas: S.A.H.R. (Self Automated Humanoid Robot)

My favorite idea is a self-automated robot, which I called S.A.H.R. It stands for Self Automated Humanoid Robot.
It will be 4”11 in height and made 25% glass and 75% aluminum. There will be solar panels on the top of it’s head.
Connected to the solar panels will be wires that will split and lead to the hands and the legs.
At night, two perpendicular lights will glow blue from the energy of the solar Panel. If there is a full moon, a Lunar Panel will appear.

The idea was that the robot will help completing jobs that will be too difficult and/or dangerous for humans to do, such as mining, oil drilling and other industrial jobs.
S.A.H.R the robot could also be a playmate for children who have no brother or sister.

My Drawings: Marie Curie (Summer 2011)