January 2011
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Jan 31st
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Jan 31st
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Jan 30th
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“The world is going to get magical and strange, and people will be confused and...”
– Chris Heathcote in his great “New New Media” talk at Design of Understanding.
Jan 30th
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Jan 28th
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Jan 28th
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WatchWatch
Graffiti Research Labs’ SVG2BVG uses custom computer vision software to detect graffiti tags, sending the ensuing shape to a diy laser cutter and outputting the tag as a stencil in realtime. “The stencils are conveniently sized for the television screens in the Berlin U-Bahn system - allowing you to go all-city and create cheap, non-permanent, light-based graffiti in the comfort of...
Jan 28th
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Jan 27th
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Alexander Chen is experimenting with turning the 1972 NY Subway map into an HTML5 musical instrument. He says “These videos are still in-progress tests. I plan to import an actual subway schedule from the MTA’s subway API and have subway trains triggering the performance. After that, I hope to start on an iPad version that would function more as a user-driven instrument.” Conductor...
Jan 27th
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Emoticomp
“My sensory apparatus reveals it to me. This is fun.” - Bomb 20 Yeah I know about the title. I have no intention of actually saying that word out loud unless I refer to this post. There’s another stinker later on too. Shhh. There’s been quite a few things written about personality, emotion, behaviour and how they apply to “connected things” recently so I...
Jan 20th
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Jan 20th
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“Ricky [The Roomba] made us feel bad, too. For one, he couldn’t hold a...”
– Nattie - in a hilarious comment on the But, but is Johnny 5 alive? thread on Metafilter.
Jan 20th
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Jan 20th
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“The result is that many of us find ourselves in a catch 22 position. The best...”
– The art of agency self-promotion - probably the most important “marketing trend” for 2011.
Jan 20th
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Jan 20th
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Jan 19th
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Jan 19th
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Jan 19th
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Jan 19th
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“If Mujicomp is all about devices we’re comfortable inviting into our homes,...”
– Tom Armitage - Asleep and Awake (BERG Blog)
Jan 18th
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Jan 18th
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Jan 18th
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Wiggle Table by Tom Foulsham vibrates words and stories in to drawings.  News stories streaming in from the internet or stories typed by someone sat inside are translated into the vibration alphabet. These 26 alphabetical vibrations tangle stories inside drawings
Jan 18th
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Jan 17th
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Jan 13th
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Jan 13th
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Jan 11th
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Jan 11th
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Jan 10th
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“Arthur C. Clarke said, “Any sufficiently advanced technology is...”
– Tom Murphy in a post on Arduino - The Documentary.
Jan 10th
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Jan 9th
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Jan 9th
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