Japanese artist Mutoh Tsutomu has created the raver’s wet dream room. The Optical Tone installation is a combination of art, technology and science. Clad with LED light spectrums in conjunction with sensors that interact with inhabitants of the room, Tsutomu uses a special algorithm to display RGB colors. This interactively examines the problems in human perception and the recognition of dynamic characteristics of light that can’t be experienced in everyday life.

The experiment could lead to further explorations for improvement in environmental light of the digital age and research on understanding of human color perception.  In turn, this will open up a new history of visual expression and communication that not even a trip on mushrooms could prepare you for.

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The Japan Acoustic Laboratory is famous for their soft science research, those guys have recently started selling ringtones online that they claimed can calm crying babies. Nikkei has decided to spend a few bucks and try that out on 2 babies. First they downloaded the tone on to their mobile, then they sent it to the alarm clock by muPass. You can have an idea of how the tone actually sounds like here (.avi). No matter how stupid it sounds, Nikkei still reported that it actually worked on two difficult babies, and they both stopped crying within seconds; but over here, we might want to try this on non-Japanese babies first. –Sam Chan

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