February 2012
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If everyone now has the ability to make their own things, then surely everyone...
– Tim Burrell Saward - Making Things The Hard Way
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As we move away from interaction via screens and into physical space, we have...
– Zach Lieberman of Openframeworks responding to the question “how will technology become more humanised in the next decade”, in Wired’s March 2012 issue. (via tim)
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January 2012
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The point of field upgrades is that your old TV will have all the...
– Mike Loukides - Don’t expect the end of electronics obsolescence anytime soon (via Bruces)
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Robots can be said to have their own culture precisely because they don’t need...
– Stuart Geiger - The ethnography of robots
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He found this response of “it’s old” (and therefore it’s...
– John Maeda - Old vs New vs Good
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We believe that the next step in copying will be made from digital form into...
– The Pirate Bay - Evolution: New Category
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Pretty much every TV at CES had the same functionality: Wi-Fi. Gesture control....
– Chris Heathcote - Sand in the Vaseline
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Nine-fifteen, sang the clock, time to clean. Out of warrens in the wall, tiny...
– Ray Bradbury - There Will Come Soft Rains
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In this electric age we see ourselves being translated more and more into the...
– Marshall McLuhan - Understanding Media
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There be those who say that things and places have souls, and there be those who...
– H.P. Lovecraft
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It starts off with “huh?”, a sense of mystification about what the algorithm...
– Greg Borenstein - Machine Pareidolia: Hello Little Fella meets FaceTracker
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The Techno Rebels are, whether they recognise it or not, agents of the Third...
– Alvin Toffler - The Third Wave (1980)
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I don’t like [the Turing Test] that much, in part because I don’t...
– Peter Norvig - Google’s go-to AI guy sees phones getting much smarter
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And even if we don’t care about them having legal rights, there’s still good...
– Ted Chiang
December 2011
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By not seeing borders, designers expand their possibilities at a time when...
– Liz Danzico - Where The Borders Are
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In short I believe that the way our business now tends to make “being...
– Rory Sutherland - Who make better planners? Planners or creatives?
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Alley Posts by James George is “an old tourist movie from the future. filmed in an evening walking the streets of Barcelona with a handheld 3d scanner.”
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reaDIYmate is about assembling your own wifi-connected gizmo in a few minutes.
Personalize its shape.
Change its behaviour on the web or your iPhone.
Have it interact with your digital life and other reaDIYmate things in the real world.
www.readiymate.com
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