Month: July 2012

  • The Facebook Fallacy – Technology Review

    The Facebook Fallacy – Technology Review It’s quite a juxtaposition of realities. On the one hand, Facebook is under the same relentless downward pressure as other Web-based media. The company’s revenue amounts to a pitiful $5 per customer per year, which puts it ahead of the Huffington Post but somewhat behind the New York Times’…

  • TEDxMontevideo 2012 – GONZALO FRASCA on games, learning, and education (by TEDxTalks) (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)

  • My ongoing ocular migraine count. data gpoy (via DAYTUM)

  • At a recent biotech conference in France I came across an exhibit by Oron Catts and Ionat Zurr showing a piece of ‘victimless meat’, a 3 cm disc of meat grown in a laboratory from cells removed from a living animal. Nothing had died to produce this piece of meat. It was a classic fusion of…

  • prostheticknowledge: Nimbus MkIII – Pareidolic Robot  Design project by Neil Usher that identifies faces in clouds: Robots are designed to perform precise and repetitive operations with relentless efficiency, performing the tasks we find too laborious or  dangerous. However, could these robots be deployed to improve the efficiency of our leisure time by performing tasks we…

  • it8bit: The Chip: 8-Bit Typography Created by Gabriel Figueiredo Font available for download at fontstruct behance || Tumblr || Twitter