Life 2.0, 1999 SHARED FIRST & SECOND PRIZE Erwin Driessens, Maria Verstappen Tickle http://www.xs4all.nl/~notnot/tickle/TICKLEcat.html "Tickle" is a beautifully designed and crafted autonomous robot that navigates the surface of the body on its rotating rubber-padded wheels, run by finite state software and tickling as it goes. It knows to avoid slopes that are too steep, but its "smartness" is also in its tongue-in cheek acknowledgement of the kinds of accoutrements that are the promise of an encroaching but ever-elusive cybernetic future.
Life 5.0, 2002 FIRST PRIZE Erwin Driessens, Maria Verstappen Tickle Salon http://www.xs4all.nl/~notnot/TickleSalon/TickleSalon.html Tickle Salon combines a remarkable technical achievement with an elegant concept, a touching interface, and edgy irony
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Life 2.0, 1999
SHARED FIRST & SECOND PRIZE
Erwin Driessens, Maria Verstappen
Tickle
http://www.xs4all.nl/~notnot/tickle/TICKLEcat.html
"Tickle" is a beautifully designed and crafted autonomous robot
that navigates the surface of the body on its rotating rubber-padded
wheels, run by finite state software and tickling as it goes. It knows
to avoid slopes that are too steep, but its "smartness" is also in its
tongue-in cheek acknowledgement of the kinds of accoutrements that
are the promise of an encroaching but ever-elusive cybernetic future.
Life 5.0, 2002
FIRST PRIZE
Erwin Driessens, Maria Verstappen
Tickle Salon
http://www.xs4all.nl/~notnot/TickleSalon/TickleSalon.html
Tickle Salon combines a remarkable technical achievement with an elegant
concept, a touching interface, and edgy irony