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3D printing doll specialist secures $1.4 million in funding. One of the investors which helped raise $1.4 million in funding for MakieLab has said the toy trade is “ripe for disruption”. The company received the funding from a seed round led by early-stage investors Lifeline Ventures and Sunstone Capital. “The toy industry is ripe for…
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Photo by Oli Scarff/Getty Images Google and Lego are conspiring to ensure your workday is unproductive, unless you’re building your own digital house. The two companies have teamed up and released Build, an online simulator that allows you to build with Lego bricks in Google’s Chrome browser. The application presents a map of Australia and…
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ricardocamargo: GenbetaDev : Google Blockly, un lenguaje visual para aprender a programar Google Blockly es un lenguaje de programación visual compuesto por un sencillo conjunto de comandos que podemos combinar como si fueran las piezas de un rompecabezas. Es una herramienta muy útil para el que quiera aprender a programar de una forma intuitiva y simple. Blockly permite a los programadores principiantes…
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kchayka: thisistheverge: Gesture language: How Do You Write A Gesture? Coool diagrams
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towerofsleep: christopherschreck: THE .PSD SHOW organized by Joshua Citarella featuring Kate Steciw, Artie Vierkant, Bea Fremderman, Daniel Everett, Bryan Krueger, Lorenzo Durantini, Tim Maul, and Joshua Citarella “Adobe Photoshop is now the vernacular of contemporary images. New technologies have significantly shifted photographic practice, broadening the scope of its developmental potential and vocabulary. These changes foster…
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(via Envisioning the future of education | Envisioning Technology)
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reading Daemon by Daniel Suarez
The general gestured to the screens. “Why wasn’t this detected? Our systems should have sounded the alarm the moment anomalous IP traffic patterns occurred. Isn’t that what the neural logic farm is for?” Philips was calm. “It wasn’t detected, General, because there were no anomalous traffic patterns to detect. The Daemon is not an Internet…
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l’art pour l’art: I would suggest that today artists need a theory to explain what they…
l’art pour l’art: I would suggest that today artists need a theory to explain what they… I would suggest that today artists need a theory to explain what they are doing—not to others, but to themselves. In this respect they are not alone. Every contemporary subject constantly asks these two questions: What has to be…
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theatlantic: Why Should Books Still Be Books When They’re on Tablets? For all the disruption in the publishing industry wrought by the Internet, e-readers, and tablets, reading a book still feels like, well, reading a book: tabbing through pages, digesting information linearly. But maybe that will change. The company Semi-Linear is hoping so: Its recently…
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theatlantic: Why Should Books Still Be Books When They’re on Tablets? For all the disruption in the publishing industry wrought by the Internet, e-readers, and tablets, reading a book still feels like, well, reading a book: tabbing through pages, digesting information linearly. But maybe that will change. The company Semi-Linear is hoping so: Its recently…