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A contemporary art installation for Hamlet!
- Bryan

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Ah yes I remember this one - one of my colleagues at Leeds University used it to
measure fatigue in external fixation devices used in dentistry.  The large mechanism
is an array of actuators which generated vibrations in the required axes.  The head is
fitted internally with accelerometers and suspended weights, sprung and damped to
provide the required resonance characeristics.
 
Interestingly the skull was donated by Esnest Hutchinson, one of the mech. eng.
lecturers who chose to leave his remains to science and dies shortly afterwards
in slightly mysterious circumstances.
 
Although the device was a big hit down at the dental hospital, it never made any
significant contributions to dental science.
 
Best regards,
-  Frog Twissell

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Hi,

It is a little-known fact that at the core of the original ARPANET mainframe was a hamster-wheel

operated by Sparky, the hamster and mascot of ARPA.

With the introduction of IPv6 it was realized that Sparky and his descendents would no-longer

capable of processing the quantity of DNS lookup requests that this new protocol would lead to,

and so the HAL (Human Assisted Lookup) processor was designed.

 

The device shown is what was left of a HAL_0.9 prototype after a technician mistakenly entered

the details of google’s 10 most popular search-words without first ensuring that net-nanny and a

suitable surge-arrestor were installed and operating normally.

 

Regards,

Greg Arrow



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It's a device that tells you how much headbanging the
human skull can take.

- David Schwartz

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Howdy,
I think the machine is used either to pressure/impact test areas of the human
skull or for testing electric resonance of the human skull.
 
regards
- Daniel Cvetkovic

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Its a electro mechanical talking head, with the latex face removed.
 
An example of the latest direct brain computer interface.
 
Kind Regards
- Stuart Ward

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This is the 'Thespo-mat 5000', the worlds first AI to recite Shakespeare in record
times...and also in binary. Seen here during its 'Hamlet' cycle trying to beat its PB
of 6.06 secs.
- Simon

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Hello,

Terminator 0.1

Regards,
Marco Dumont


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It is a classically trained Shakespearian Analytical Engine dontcha know.

- Andy S.
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It's a device for administering electric shock treatment??


- Ian Moore

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It’s for seeing how electromagnetic radiation is absorbed by the skull… ?

 

- George Green

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A machine to simulate human head motion. Using motors mounted behind and inside
the skull to control a clever system of pulleys simulating tendons and muscles.
I would say the mass of wires protruding from the skull are probably to control the
articulation of the various axes. There may well also be various sensors mounted in
the skull, possibly including some method for a person to interact with the device
such as cameras and microphones.

- Sol Plant

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Is it some form of automatic phrenology reader?
- Ian Martin

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High tech gothic nutcracker!
- Wian

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Hi there.
 
I think the Mystery Image is actually an electro-encepholograph. Judging by the
machinery it is probably from the 1960-70's.

- Anon

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My guess is that this machine manipulates the movements of the skull. The gears
on the control panel might imply that its a machine built to allow us to study these
movements by controlling how they occur.
 
*shrug*
 
-Adam M Botsford
Tacoma WA

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its the EHH1 "Electronic Human Head 1", a Dr Yoshikazu Suematsu of Nagoya
project. ,they put on the head, luminosity captor, microphones on ears, mechanic for the
mouth and another micro in it.the captors is for imitating human sens and it was
designed to show, that is possible to put all captors in one head!
my english is so poor , i'm really confused, very sorry

bye bye

- Anon