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| Subject: Dream catcher app Shadow to chart frontiers of the mind Sat Nov 30, 2013 7:33 pm | |
| Shadow, an application for iPhone that will be launched next month, is designed to capture dreams. According to the creation myth, its inventor, Hunter Lee Soik, was catching up on lost sleep at a beach resort in Mexico when it occurred to him that dreams are a vast untapped data source. What if millions of them could be tethered and tallied, before they float away?
Soik wears a Fitbit monitor on one wrist and a Jawbone tracking device on the other to log his every step: as an adherent of the Quantified Self movement, he believes what is measured, improves. ''The long-term goal is to create the largest dream database in the world, so that we can identify major themes and trends,'' he says. ''We want to make the invisible visible.''
Nominally, he is a resident of New York, but since discovering that he can rent out his downtown apartment to tourists for $600 a night, he stays at the High Line hotel when he's in town. Over an espresso macchiato in the lobby he enthuses about siphon coffee, which is big in Japan but just catching on here.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/smartphone-apps/dream-catcher-app-shadow-to-chart-frontiers-of-the-mind-20131129-2yh7y.html#ixzz2mB959mdw |
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