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The Poor Clares in York are about as archaic as a religious order can get, with roots dating back to the 13th century and a 145-year-old covenant in northern England. Though the Franciscan nuns have taken a vow of silence, and eat a strict vegetarian diet, the order has agreed to embrace one piece of modern technology: a 3-D printed news ticker called the Prayer Companion, dubbed 'Goldie' by the nuns, designed by
The burgundy, Tao cross-shaped Prayer Companion is tethered to a laptop, which pulls from 25 international RSS feeds (e.g. Reuters, CNN, BBC News and more). Goldie also grabs and displays emotions from wefeelfine.org, a site that aggregates blogs, LiveJournal, Flickr and other sites to react to users' feelings. The nuns admitted to the project's designers that they check the device "millions of times a day," and Goldie hasn't been shut off since being installed in early 2009. The nuns watch the news and social network updates scroll across the Arduino-powered LED screen, and pray for those in trouble -- hardly a Medieval practice. [From: The Guardian, York.ac.uk (PDF) and Lab 4 Living, via: Gizmodo]
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Subscribe to commentsBill GaverJul 12th 2010 7:34AM
Thanks very much for your coverage of our design. Just a few clarifications:
1. We are neither artists nor students. The Interaction Research Studio is part of Goldsmiths' Design Department, and is staffed by academic researchers.
2. Goldsmiths isn't an art college (though it has an extremely well-known art department), but member college of the University of London, and home to various prominent academic departments (e.g. Sociology, Cultural Studies, Music, Computing, English, Politics, etc.).
Take a look at www.gold.ac.uk/interaction to learn more.