Month: November 2014

  • emergentfutures: 3D LED printer makes a contact lens display possible By breaking the concept of an LED down to its most basic form, the researchers saw that they needn’t think of LEDs as little domed plastic lightbulbs, but simple stacks of interacting material. This printer can lay down an LED with a sandwich structure that’s…

  • emergentfutures: 3D LED printer makes a contact lens display possible By breaking the concept of an LED down to its most basic form, the researchers saw that they needn’t think of LEDs as little domed plastic lightbulbs, but simple stacks of interacting material. This printer can lay down an LED with a sandwich structure that’s…

  • *That was a pretty good analysis from a dozen years ago, and now it explains why “fiction” about cyberpunk is irrelevant. It’s no longer ”aesthetic vision,” it’s everyday lived experience. Cyberpunk and Empire Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr. DePauw University/ Science Fiction Studies (…) Nonetheless, I think we can safely identify certain aspects of cyberpunk’s aesthetic vision…

  • syfycity: A system designed at Georgia Institute of Technology enables people with high-level spinal cord injuries to operate a computer and electrically powered wheelchair by moving their tongues.

  • kenyatta: William S. Burroughs – A Thanksgiving Prayer Thanks for the wild turkey and the passenger pigeons, destined to be shat out through wholesome American guts. Thanks for a continent to despoil and poison. Thanks for Indians to provide a modicum of challenge and danger. Thanks for vast herds of bison to kill and skin…

  • If we were talking about the murder of my child, I would not be dignified. I would be naked and hideous with my grief. I would rage. If I were murdered in such a manner, I would want people to rage on my behalf. I would want to be remembered loudly, with fire. Such visible…

  • brucesterling: http://techcrunch.com/2014/11/25/tumblr-overtakes-instagram-as-fastest-growing-social-platform-snapchat-is-the-fastest-growing-app/

  • publicartfund: Less than a week to see John Gerrard’s Solar Reserve at Lincoln Center!  The 28 by 24 foot frameless LED wall has captivated visitors and inspired hundreds of instagrams and tweets. This extraordinary digital simulation of a Nevada solar power plant changes in real time throughout the course of the exhibition, so that each image captured by the…

  • When the developer Richard Hofmeier won the grand prize at the Independent Games Festival that year for Cart Life, he celebrated his win by spray painting the words “HOWLING DOGS” across his booth, replacing his game with hers and telling people to play it. “I don’t want to say that it’s fun or I love…

  • This theme of interdependence is central to Iñupiat stories, no doubt born of the need to help one another in order to survive the harsh Alaskan conditions. It’s a message Never Alone seeks to impart through both its spoken narration (which has been recorded in Iñupiat) and the unspoken story communicated by its rules and…