Month: April 2014

  • This just in. We are videogame historical materialists.

  • newyorker: Several hundred fans and a team of archaeologists traveled to a New Mexico landfill to dig up thousands of buried “E.T.” cartridges, relics of the video-game industry’s collapse in the ’80s: http://nyr.kr/1mdGMAp Photograph: Fuel Entertainment.

  • lifeandcode: vizualize: “Infographic as impossibility in its purest form” by Francesco Franchi They just wanna mess with your mind a little. 

  • journalofanobody: Rostislav Kostal equalizing Duchamp’s version.

  • fastcompany: These 3-D Printed Houses From China Appear In Just A Few Hours They won’t win any beauty contest, but a Chinese company has figured out how to print practical homes from waste materials—all for half the cost of conventional construction. Read More>

  • Read: Is the Oculus Rift sexist?

    Read: Is the Oculus Rift sexist? xuhulk: Although there was variability across the board, biological men were significantly more likely to prioritize motion parallax.Biological women relied more heavily on shape-from-shading. In other words, men are more likely to use the cues that 3D virtual reality systems relied on. This, if broadly true, would explain why I,…

  • urbanfunscape: This unobtrusive bike rack takes up no space when there isn’t a bike pinned to it.

  • I wanted to see if I could create something that is emotional between people. Existing games are about killing each other or killing something together. The idea of social emotion means people need to share feelings. At that moment, the players are in sync. The problem [with many games] is there’s no chance to share…

  • I feel like jeans and a T-shirt have become Establishment … Everyone’s dressing down. So actually putting on a jacket is the anti-Establishment stance. Thom Browne (via thisfits)

  • prostheticknowledge: SCiO This is a bit future-shock … A small consumer-level molecular scanner lets you analyze the objects around you for relevant information, from food calories or quality, medicine, nature etc … This could be the start of the Internet of Everything The Kickstarter was launched yesterday and made it’s $200,000 goal within 24 hours…