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Faraday Café Experiment Comes to a Close

The Faraday Café experiment closed its doors yesterday after two weeks as part of Vancouver’s Chinatown pop-up store project. Social artist Julien Thomas and Hughes Condor Marler Architects created the cell-phone free café by covering the building in a mesh that shields electromagnetic fields.

The café walls have been lined using an aluminum window mesh as a faraday cage that has the ability to let light and sound through but not digital reception. The team started the project in the cafe as a step towards creating personal spaces that block wireless signals and restore non-digital, social interaction.The two week experiment has drawn significant attention as people reflect on the need for technological devices as a form of social connection.

Read more about the use of faraday cages as a means to restore more direct social interaction.

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Maxwell’s Equations are eloquently simple yet excruciatingly complex. Their first statement by James Clerk Maxwell in 1864 heralded the beginning of the age of radio and, one could argue, the age of modern electronics.

 

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