My Relationship with my body?

For this week post we had to do a little bit of reading and answer the questions, what is my relationship with my body? and what is the relationship of my body with technology?

Mark Hansen, in his reading, Bodies in Code talks about how in embodiment the body is inside a body schema system which has two perspectives of it as body as an image and as an object. I believe that my relationship to my body is a body "for me" perspective, as the body scheme system defines. It is more oriented on its "potential movement". My body operates with different motor functions, having its understanding of its own world, it operates consciously as any normal or "phenomenal" body. This means it continues working without out concern, it has control over itself and its organisms.

On the other hand, the relationship of my body with technology is more a body as an image perspective, it only obtains a superficial view of the my body but not an understanding of what its happening inside it. Hansen gives an explanation of the way technology only takes a visual apprehension of the body, being a representation of ourselves. He also refers to the way we are able to percept emotions of others’ bodies and our own and in some way interchange of our body-image with others body-images.

Embodiment Proposal: The Guardian!!

I`ve been getting an idea after another and I have stuck to one that is similar to some software projects that I created back home. Many houses in Canada and around the world have been robbed when their owners are in vacation or at work, even at night so in order to stop this I shall create a house guardian... The guardian will be activated by the house`s owner every time he and his family go to bed or to sleep. There will be sensors in every door and window in the house that at the moment of activation will send a signal to the guardian, letting him know that there is a unknown person in the house... I havent come up with the design of the guardian yet but I am planning it to have the shape of a dog... So the guardian will come out of his little house and start looking for the stranger, once the guardian has found the stranger, he will scan the surface of the person and will detect his aroma and will determine whether the aroma belongs of someone living in the house or of a stranger, if it`s a stranger`s it will send a message to the police and will tweet the owner of the house, letting him know that there is someone in the house... The dog then will go on its protection mode, activating small darts that will contain anesthesia to immobilize the stranger!

Tanks Attack!!

For the first week of the term we had to create an structure using Google Sketch-up which is a 3D modeling program. For my assignment I decided to create a tank which took work to get it done but at the end it was all worthy. Here are a few images of my tank from different perspectives and firing at the enemy!