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I think this Video is very appropriate in reference to our group and the sensory engagements.
It is great to see other designers thinking along the same track as us, having a greater awareness of evolving technology and taking advantage of cofusion points.

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Blood revisited

The Blood Powered Revolution

Wellington based company funded by the Wellington Capital Chronicle newspaper was hired to research into future communication systems due to the expansive growth of online networking.

Studies in 2011 resulted ideas that future technology was heading towards an exponential curve of development. Citizens would need a wider network communication in the Capital for daily life. Research led to the development of a Wireless connection through newly developed batteries powered by blood.

The Tardigrada technology within Capital Chronicles changed after the news of the

Extinction of the Tardigrada in 2011. The Tardigrades were coined to become the micro leaders of all communication networks. These little companions would be housed within liquid and were genetically engineered to carry carbon nono tubes designed to emit a wireless network. Unfortunately a new species of Tardigrade however developed due to global warming which led to their extinction in their biological niche.

Capital C furthered to design a system while conversing with Canterbury Bio Chemist Honours Graduate Dylan Gifford for the possibility of creating a protein. This encased a certain blood battery that was currently being developed in 2011. This battery run from blood would turn on a biological networking device that allowed wireless signal to be transmitted. The protein housed a paper-thin battery allowed the future digital citizens to be able to have just one injection of the protein into their blood system.

The liquid designed; housed in it a special nutrience that once digested would alter the protein. This would turn the ions in the battery on within the protein, making a wireless connection. This carbon nano tube battery was thus turned on inside the protein which was fed from the bloodstream. This system was designed to enhance a closer connection within Wellington’s digital community. Once blood sugar/nutrience levels drop, the liquid that was digested for the wireless connection turns off until more nutrience is consumed. This way the Wellington citizens could control the connectivity of the amount of wireless network they wanted for available daily use. This network system has been extremely efficient in daily life as it has saved the issues of power for digital connection from emerging technology and biology. This is an efficient way of tackling problems of reception due to weather extremes and other connection difficulties. We are now the connectors to our own digital lives.

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A Dancer's Second Skin

Dancers jump in excitement for the new Harvest skin sticker. Dance shoes once made from leather were scarce after the manufacture loss so dancers resorted to tape their feet in desperation to protect them from hours on their toes. Harvest’s new dance footwear acts like a second skin.

This newfound technology allows advancement in performance and expression. The seamless slipper-like skin lets dancers move for a greater time while have an improved movement range. The skin is strong and flexible and keeps the foot safe from blisters. Harvest skin is hardened to create different forms of grip like dancing in bare feet. The human skin is well protected while the Harvest skin protects the foot giving the illusion of bare feet. It has allowed dancers have more interaction with the space they dance in with lowering the injury rate. These are highly recommended by the Royal New Zealand Ballet Company based in Wellington. Traditional point shoes in the Ballet Company only last one week at most with their prima ballerinas on their toes 9hours a day. It has been very costly to keep their dancers stocked with new shoes. The Ballet Company swear by Harvest now which allows them to grow custom point shoes for each of their dancers which last much longer than the traditional point shoe.

McQueen dream

Mc Queen still making headlines from the grave

Harvest for McQueen, the new Footwear craze has become widely gossiped about after son of Marilyn Manson and Lady Gaga grew a new fashion icon! Fashion men globally have flown miles to the McQueen lab in Wellington to have the Harvest footwear attached to their soles. Men and women in the fashion community flash their new feathery colours from the red carpet of L.A to Paris fashion week. Iconic fashion designer Rick Owens tip-toes the streets in his new bones. Wellington’s Wearable arts community rejoice in their cities success becoming the new Fashion iconic city.

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Moccasin’s for Africa

Caption: Money may not yet grow on trees, but we are now growing shoes on feet.

The Red Cross foundation has funded an innovation of the Harvest leather skin sticker. Teaming up with scientists, the Red Cross has developed a cost effective production method to produce a self-grown pair of footwear for citizens in third world countries. Poverty stricken areas such as Eastern Africa, California and other western areas of the United States can now more adequately shoe their populous.

Statisticians have predicted that by 2045 the whole of California will be once again adequately protected from harmful nuclear fallout that infection their grounds in 2019. Although most of the debris was excavated and successfully removed it appears direct contact with certain areas has adverse effects over extended periods of exposure; and thus the Red Cross have been pushing to make foot wear in the region widely accessible.