Electronic Device Concept For Reducing Energy Consumption

[OneWingedBird]

I suspect this may be tongue in cheek but that said it does appear to have been built in prototype and it is quite intreaging as a concept... it is such a pity the video on the link does not work and we must make do with a babel fish translation of the text:

Annina Rüst, artist and coed in Media Lab, designed an original device for encouragement to make economies of energies. The principle is to dissuade to consume of too much; electricity with a cilice operates by remote control which will actuate automatically when its consumption exceeds a certain threshold. "

And a cilice is what? " Then c' is this species d' ring pricking which the members of l' carry; Opus Deï in Da Vinci Code to make penitence. In short something d' horrible (and which must make super evil) resembling that: Cilice3 But his is to it much more high-tech: Cilice6

In short, each time that meter EDF turns a little too quickly, the cilice gets under way. Here it video of its work: Credit: Annina Rüst, thanks: Chris Csikszentmihályi L' approach is a not very radical but interesting insofar as by diverting the cilice of its function first, l' artist some share describes a certain substiution of the values morals by the environmental values. The role first of the religions, the point of view of the theory of l' evolution, was to maintain a certain order to allow l' humanity to carry on its road. L' environnementalism also answers this principle of durability. It n' on an emanating order d' is not founded; a divine source but on what produce the individual behaviors, so much on a local level than total, and their impact on l' ecosystem. In short, this work with the merit to make reflect on l' idea that l' environnemtalism can be considering (or not) like a model 2.0 of this qu' one could be by the past the great religions.

http://blog.jeanbaptistedumont.com/2007/10/index.html

 

[Mythopoeika]

Here is a slightly better (but still bad) translation from Google Translate:

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Annina Rüst, artist and student at Media Lab , has designed an innovative system for "be encouraged" to make energy savings.

The idea is to deter drinking too much electricity with a hair shirt remote that operates automatically when its consumption exceeds a certain threshold.

"And what is a hair shirt?"

So it is this kind of ring worn by the pricking member of Opus Dei in The Da Vinci Code to do penance. In short something horrible (and must do great evil) like this:


But his is much more high-tech:

In short, whenever the electric meter turns a little too fast, the hair shirt gets under way.

Here's the video of his work:

Credit: Annina Rüst , thanks: Chris Csikszentmihalyi

The approach is somewhat radical but interesting insofar as diverting the hair shirt of its primary function, the artist somewhere describes a certain moral values ??substiution by environmental values. The primary role of religions, from the standpoint of evolutionary theory, was to maintain a certain order to enable mankind to continue his journey. Environmentalism also satisfies the principle of sustainability. It is not based on an order from a divine source but on what is produced by individual behavior, both at local and global, and their impact on the ecosystem. In short, this work to the advantage of reflecting on the idea that environnemtalisme can be seen (or not) 2.0 as a model of what could be spent by the major religions.

The question is asked.

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[Mythopoeika]

Actually, that translation is not much better.

 

[EnolaGaia]

This 2008 New York Times Magazine item seems to almost certainly be addressing the device (or conceptual artwork, if you prefer ... ) at issue here.

Carbon Penance

We all contribute to climate change, but none of us can individually be blamed for it. So we walk around with a free-floating sense of guilt that’s unlikely to be lifted by the purchase of wind-power credits or halogen bulbs. Annina Rüst, a Swiss-born artist-inventor, wanted to help relieve these anxietes by giving people a tangible reminder of their own energy use, as well as an outlet for the feelings of complicity, shame and powerlessness that surround the question of global warming.

So she built a translucent leg band that keeps track of your electricity consumption. When it detects, via a special power monitor, that electric current levels have exceeded a certain threshold, the wireless device slowly drives six stainless-steel thorns into the flesh of your leg. “It’s therapy for environmental guilt,” says Rüst, who modeled her “personal techno-garter” on the spiked bands worn as a means of self-mortification by a monk in Dan Brown’s novel “The Da Vinci Code.” (Brown derived the idea from the bands worn by some celibate members of the conservative Catholic group Opus Dei.)

Rüst built her prototype while working at the Computing Culture group of the Media Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She also designed the band to punish wearers if they don’t spend enough time talking to their carbon-fixing houseplants. But first Rüst may have to address a more mundane matter. When the spikes dug in, Rüst says, she noticed that the device “doesn’t hurt that much.” ...

SOURCE: https://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/14/magazine/14Ideas-Section2-A-t-002.html

 

[EnolaGaia]

Found it ... The device was labeled "Thighmaster", and Rüst described it as follows:

Thighmaster

The Thighmaster is a personal wearable device for people suffering from global warming guilt. Whenever the sensors in the wearer's home detect an overconsumption of electricity or other environmental sin, the device drives stainless steel thorns into the wearer's thigh as punishment.

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SOURCE: https://anninaruest.com/a/thighmaster/index.html

 

[Kondoru]

Oh, dont tell the Greens, this is just the thing they might lap up...

But, on my campsite, the statics have only a limited socket array; If someone comes in armed with a multisocket, and a load of appliances then the system will overload and trip out.

Then management have to go in and re set it.

This happens with depressing regularity.

(And they asked me why It never happened to me; well, I dont posess that many appliances, for a start, and cetainly no multisocket...)

 

[Mythopoeika]

Found it ... The device was labeled "Thighmaster", and Rüst described it as follows:

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SOURCE: https://anninaruest.com/a/thighmaster/index.html

Opus Dei members would like that.
Incidentally, a product called 'Thighmaster' was already available some years back (for exercising thighs).

 

[INT21]

Found it ... The device was labeled "Thighmaster", and Rüst described it as follows:

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SOURCE: https://anninaruest.com/a/thighmaster/index.html

I do recall seeing pictures of something similar nicknamed the 'Dongmaster'.

Apparently user to deter people from having lewd thoughts.

 

[GNC]

I do recall seeing pictures of something similar nicknamed the 'Dongmaster'.

Apparently user to deter people from having lewd thoughts.

By people do you mean campanologists?

 

[INT21]

By people do you mean campanologists?

Some of them were rather camp.

But that wasn't a limiting factor.

Forgive me father, it's the bells.

 

[captain_bats]

I do recall seeing pictures of something similar nicknamed the 'Dongmaster'.

Apparently user to deter people from having lewd thoughts.

This would actually be a lot more effective in reducing your carbon footprint in the long run.

 

[madmath]

What if it was the device itself using power that exceeded the threshold?

This work in the wrong way for sadists/masochists. "Yes, baby, turn on that light! Oh yeah, gimme another one, honey! When you turn it on it's such a turn-on!"