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Heartbeat Water Bowl
Posted by Spiros Antonopoulos on February 6, 2006 - 11:50am.
Grab onto the handles of this bowl, filled with water, and gaze upon the surface at the swirling patterns emanating from your heart. It’s truly amazing. Sometimes in life it’s difficult to consciously remember our heart—yet this device brings it all to the surface. How can one not be utterly spellbound at this unique display of the heart’s resonance? Really. Watch the video, it’s almost unbelievable.
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I read this and thought “That is really cool” how does it work? After a quick Google I found that its got a sensor in the handle that makes a battery driven vibrator shake when you hold it. Not exactly your hearts resonance at work. More like a battery driven gimmick.
Please send me your links. It could be bogus. It could be a legitimate, although battery powered, transduction algorithm. Please share!
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The question is how it works, and if it really does what it says. I’d love to play with it in person, and to see the difference, if any, in various people’s “heart readings”.
On one hand there’s a certain loss of excitement at seeing the man behind the curtain. But on the other hand, how else would it work?
The simple question remains: how is it based upon the user’s heartbeat?
Would an EKG machine make one “utterly spellbound?”
Did I say “utterly spellbound”? I could have meant stutterly hellbound…
Come on, you know this is cool. Even if it needs batteries. The surface of the water makes pretty spirally ripples. Which are, in turn, alleged to be based upon the viewer’s heartbeat. Damn, that’s cool—even if you don’t know how it works or if it’s a lie. It’s still cool.