Month: February 2011

  • standardgrey: Operation “Libya White Fax” – Boing Boing “After observing the growing unrest and correspondingly violent crackdown in Libya, a group of hackers conceived and launched Operation Libya White Fax: while the internet and data connections are being throttled, cut off and censored, phone lines are still open, and fax machines are still working. So, with…

  • So two Finnish designers decided to expand kids’ repertoire into the digital age by creating the IOBR: a classic block-sorting toy that also functions a bit like Twitter. So even if they can’t yet read or type with their cubby little fingers, toddlers armed with these things can trumpet their current doings to parents and…

  • The only way to be a Post Digital business is to be a thoroughly, deeply, massively digital one. To be digital in culture not just in capabilities. To know how to iterate in public, to do experiments not research, to recognise that it’s quicker and better to code something than it is to describe it…

  • The only way to be a Post Digital business is to be a thoroughly, deeply, massively digital one. To be digital in culture not just in capabilities. To know how to iterate in public, to do experiments not research, to recognise that it’s quicker and better to code something than it is to describe it…

  • Back to Denki and it seems that the key rule about coming up with new game ideas here is to just run with them right away. “Immediacy is about proving something as quickly as possible, by any means possible,” says Penn, “you can do it through pictures, play acting, animation, video, anything it takes to…

  • Waiting For “Superman” | Trailer & Official Movie Site | Pledge Now

    Waiting For “Superman” | Trailer & Official Movie Site | Pledge Now

  • Of the two powerful instincts which exist in all human beings and which can be used in teaching, says Gilbert Highet, one is the love of play. ”The best Renaissance teachers, instead of beating their pupils, spurred them on by a number of appeals to the play-principle. They made games out of the chore of…

  • bashford: Kinect Viewer is available from Apple’s Mac App Store. Based on the hard work of the people from OpenKinect, it allows you to plug your USB Kinect into a Mac to view a 3D visualization of the depth data it generates. You can map RGB values onto the depth image and zoom and rotate the visualization.

  • bashford: Kinect Viewer is available from Apple’s Mac App Store. Based on the hard work of the people from OpenKinect, it allows you to plug your USB Kinect into a Mac to view a 3D visualization of the depth data it generates. You can map RGB values onto the depth image and zoom and rotate the visualization.