Month: October 2011

  • How The Gadget Show built its FPS simulator (video) — Engadget

    How The Gadget Show built its FPS simulator (video) — Engadget This is some pretty impressive technology that could mean some big leaps forward in combat training, not to mention immersive gaming.   On a related note, I am now accepting donations to build one of my own.

  • Yet while we can’t predict what the future holds for our unending political discourses, we can look at how far we’ve come with technology in merely the last decade and realize the present we know now will, very soon, find itself memorialized in nostalgia. Here’s some technology emerging down the road that’s poised to change…

  • emergentfutures: Crowdsourcing: Knowledge Has a Long Tail “we will start effectively using less structured and specialized organizations (let’s call it Unstructured Crowd) to solve complex knowledge problems through Crowdsourcing Technology. Crowdsourcing is not a cheap way to outsource work to volunteers. When done right, it is an entire new form of knowledge production with the potential to revolutionize…

  • Contemporary art’s job is to wreck whatever came before it. And from the very beginning after the Old Masters, from then on, each generation wrecked that. That something that’s pretty and beautiful is probably the worst thing that you could say today in contemporary art about something, unless it’s so pretty it’s nauseating. So, and…

  • Interview: Lea Schönfelder makes games for adults – gamescenes

    Interview: Lea Schönfelder makes games for adults – gamescenes dinosaurparty: I won’t post any of Lea Schönfelder’s video clips, because they’re not particularly SFW, but I always get excited when I hear about new female artists working in the videogame realm. However, the issue with Schönfelder’s work is that (at least what I’ve seen) is too heavy…

  • “Racism and Science Fiction” by Samuel R. Delany

    tokenblkgirl: In the Dealers’ room was an Autograph Table where, throughout the convention, pairs of writers were assigned an hour each to make themselves available for book signing. The hours the writers would be at the table was part of the program. At 12:30 on Saturday I came to sit down just as Nalo Hopkinson…

  • nevver: Apple Introduces What It Calls an Easier to Use Portable Music Player, Ten Years Ago Today …and the unboxing was an exquisite experience.

  • rociosz: just one piece, one cut of material-

  • When you swipe a card at the store today, the merchant sends a message through the Visa or Mastercard network and it arrives at your bank within a second with up to 120 fields of information included. They know your location, which terminal of a store you’re in, whether you’re in the pharmacy section of…

  • The significance of a liberal arts curriculum for engineering students, for example, has been underscored by recommendations from within the National Academy of Engineering. James Duderstadt, president emeritus of the University of Michigan and an international figure in engineering education, has argued that professional demands in the various fields of engineering have become sufficiently complex…