How vibration can turn any object into data-enabled interface | Bruno Zamborlin | TEDxSanFrancisco
Imagine any objects and surfaces can become smart and connected to the digital world. Dr. Bruno Zamborlin shares how his company HyperSurfaces uses vibration sensors and edge-AI to transform any object of any material and shape into smart interfaces, seamlessly merging the physical and data worlds without the need for buttons, touch screens or even internet connections.
Zamborlin is a pioneer in the field of AI for Human-Technology interaction and ubiquitous technology as well as founder and chief scientist officer of HyperSurfaces. HyperSurface’s AI software runs on standard chips, and uses common vibration sensors to interpret the vibrational patterns detected on physical objects (such as those generated from human gestures or other interactions) in real time, and converts them into digital commands.
The sanctuary of Nemesis lies on the road between Rhamnous and Marathon, around 630m south of the later city.
Two temples to Nemesis and
titaness
Themis can be seen at the site situated very close together. The earliest temple dates from the late 6th century BCE, made of Poros stone and known from a few Laconian roof tiles, which was probably destroyed by the Persians in 480-479 BCE.
In the early 5th BCE the small temple of Themis (6.15 by 9.9m) of a 6 × 12 Doric order was built over the earlier remains to both the goddesses Themis and Nemesis, indicated by dedicatory inscriptions on two marble seats of the 4th century BCE that were sited on the porch. The former was the personification of Right Order and the latter the avenger of Order’s transgressors.
There are several cuttings on the steps of this temple for the insertion of stelai. The temple was built of local dark marble and roofed with terracotta tiles. The walls of the cella and the terrace of the sanctuary platform are built in the Lesbian polygonal style of masonry. This temple probably served later as a treasury of the large temple for its cult statues.
This structure survived until the 4th century CE.
A statue called
Themis
of Rhamnous
and several other dedications, unearthed in the cella, are at the National Archaeological Museum, Athens.
Themis of Rhamnous is 2.22 metres (87 in) tall, the statue is carved of Pentelic marble. Her standing figure is dressed in a sleeved chiton caught by a zone under the bodice, wrapped in a himation whose ends are draped over her outstretched left forearm. The head is carved separately, the hair upswept and carved sketchily. Her weight is borne on the left leg, with the right knee brought forward and the heel lifted. The right forearm is missing, and would have held an offering bowl; the left hand would have held a set of scales. One curiosity is the knot of fabric resting on the himation; this detail has no clear relationship to the rest of the drapery.
Origin: Guatemala, Central Peten, possibly Uaxactun
Provenience unknown, possibly looted
Maya painted dish, Late Classic period, the tondo with the profile head of God K (?) wearing elaborate flowing and plumed headdress, and surrounded by a band of glyphs on the rim. Painted in deep orange and black on a pale orange ground. Translated
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