Month: November 2013

  • Walk into a room, and all the devices inside it–not just the computers and TV screens but the lightbulbs and thermostat, too, potentially–will know it’s you. 4 Big Ideas in the New iPhones That No One’s Talking About | Wired Design | Wired.com (via futuristgerd)

  • A universal income is not such a silly idea

    A universal income is not such a silly idea azspot: I still think we’d get a country full of layabouts. That’s the risk, I suppose. There is an alternative way to look at all this: an increasing number of economists are beginning to worry that technological change may make large numbers of people completely unemployable.…

  • wickedclothes: Programmable Tattoo System What do you do when you want a tattoo but don’t want the commitment of permanent ink? The moodInq system is a breakthrough in tattoo technology, using a skin-safe proprietary E ink encapsulated pigment system that lasts a lifetime but can be configured to display any design (or none!) to suit…

  • Algorave: Generative Dance Music

    Algorave: Generative Dance Music technoccult: Klint Finley Vice reports on algorave music — algorithmically generated electronic dance music: “I’m a live coder, and over the last ten years I’ve been writing code to try to make people dance. That’s my aim,” Alex said. Writing code to make music has been a decade-long interest for…

  • code drawing 24c

    code drawing 24c

    code drawing 24c created on 2013-11-29 between 19:59 – 20:09. more orbits.

  • code drawing 24b

    code drawing 24b

    code drawing 24b, created on 2013-11-29 between  18:49 – 19:59. sometimes sprites begin to orbit one another.

  • code drawing 24

    code drawing 24

    code drawing 24, created on 2013-11-29 between 16:16 – 16:35.

  • code drawing 23

    code drawing 23

    code drawing 23, created 2013-11-29 between 15:50 – 16:07.

  • towerofsleep: raymondboisjoly: smarterthanyou: Walter Scott, “A Somatic Conversion”, 2013 – photo by Barb Choit I try to be really opaque about my use of camouflage now; I don’t really like to talk about it. It can mean a lot of things. People have approached me about the camo with different readings, about class, allocation of…