Month: June 2013

  • currently reading Margaret Atwood’s Blind Assassin, so many learnings.

  • overbending will damage the electronics inside Nike+ FuelBand.

  • Using Nike+ FuelBand during activities that involve vibration Your Nike+ FuelBand is a sensitive device with a three-axis accelerometer designed to pick up a variety of motion types. Activities that involve vibration, like operating power tools or pushing a lawnmower or riding a motorcycle, may generate more NikeFuel than you have actually earned through your…

  • bookporn: bookshavepores: iFeliz cumpleaños, Rayuela! Yes! Happy Birthday, Hopscotch! <3 pre-digital non-linear narrative experiment.

  • fylatinamericanhistory: Today In Latin American History Julio Cortázar’s novel Rayuela was published for the first time fifty years ago today, on June 28, 1963.

  • GAME: MASS MURDERER OF STEEL

    GAME: MASS MURDERER OF STEEL

  • In a pilot study published by the Journal of Gerontological Nursing, a team of Australian and German researchers allowed elderly patients stricken with dementia to interact with “therapeutic companion robots.” In this case, the researchers used a Japanese creation called Paro—robots designed to sense touch, light, sound, temperature, and posture. The robots can show emotions,…

  • It’s pretty simple to play: You just click on Superman and Zod to send them rocketing around downtown Metropolis, smashing up buildings, school buses, trees, and the occasional unsuspecting citizen. To be honest though, it’s less of a “game” in the traditional sense since there’s no real way to win, but I think that’s intentional.…

  • comicsalliance: Kyle Baker Satirizes The Climax Of ‘Man Of Steel’ With An Interactive Game [Spoilers] By Chris Sims Kyle Baker is a national treasure. You’re probably already familiar with his work as the eight-time Eisner Award-winning cartoonist behind books like The Cowboy Wally Show and DC’s Plastic Man, but the past few years have seen him experimenting with new formats…

  • rafaelfajardo: Setting sedentary baseline metrics on cyborg self gamified wellness. Taking the measure of a (hu)man. Quantify me.