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