Month: July 2013

  • (via MIT researchers successful in printing ‘flexible’ 3D objects | DamnGeeky)

  • MIT researchers print squishy 3D teddy bear – Innovation – Boston.com

    MIT researchers print squishy 3D teddy bear – Innovation – Boston.com MIT Computational Fabrication Group 3D printing may be all the rage, but figuring out how to work the nascent technology to make lifelike objects with intricate surfaces can tie you up in knots. So who else but some bright minds from the Massachusetts Institute…

  • dangerousdays: Footage from Cyberpunk on the Small Screen. — GIFs by Dangerous Days

  • prostheticknowledge: 3D Gif Webtoy by Vince McKelvie which can take any GIF online and place it onto a morphing 3D object in your browser: 3dGif dynamically maps gifs and images onto 3d mesh.  Paste an image url into the text input box, press “gO!“ and your image will transform into an amorphous 3d animation.  It’s…

  • (via A day in Big Data – For Smarter Customer Experiences – OgilvyOne) via @sterlingcrispin – a clear path to a more controlled and disconnected consumer future (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)

  • Overcoming the Filter Bubble with User Interface Design

    fuselabs: How can we create designs that help us overcome the biases in our awareness of news? Today at Microsoft Research, Elena Agapie talked about political memes and her user interface experiments to measure user bias in what we click. These biases in behaviour sometimes get reinforced by our computer systems to form what Eli…

  • emergentfutures: Electronic licence plates can be invalidated remotely South Carolina may introduce electronic licence plates that use electronic ink to signal when a car is stolen, suspended or uninsured. Full Story: Springwise

  • superamiga: companionplant:Where do I get this….where did it come from

  • A lot of you may not know this, but I used to be an EMT-B. I volunteered on a 911 ambulance service, and spent most of my time running out of fire stations in Commerce City. Commerce City (aka Combat Shitty) is an industrial area of Denver where there are a lot of poor and…