Month: July 2013

  • Andre using gesture to make poppies

  • rafaelfajardo: (via Poppies // SWEAT) Andre Blyth was able to make poppies appear when a player made a seed-casting gesture.

  • (via Poppies // SWEAT) Andre Blyth was able to make poppies appear when a player made a seed-casting gesture.

  • rafaelfajardo: Two years ago, in 2011, 90 percent of Lego’s consumers were boys. A tough statistic to swallow for those of us who grew up playing with Lego’s gender-neutral buckets of bricks. But the statistic came straight from Lego, which was then focused on boys with franchised sets based on properties like Star Wars and…

  • Do you finish one game and then move onto the next? This is the dominant pattern of play for gamers. What happens when players stop consuming and starts investing in a single evergreen computer game for years on end? (via Lost Garden: A single game as a lifelong hobby)

  • Flexible circuitry is frequently a one-way affair – we’ve seen bendy displays and touch layers, but rarely both in one surface. UC Berkeley is at last merging those two technologies through a plastic skin whose display reacts to touch. By curing a polymer on top of a silicon wafer, the school’s researchers found that they…

  • We often write about B-school research findings in this space. Now we’re going to let you take part. This video, presented by Harvard Business School associate professor Michael Norton, is a game. In fact, it’s the same game Norton used in research he recently conducted, so when you play the game here, you’ll be doing…

  • Two years ago, in 2011, 90 percent of Lego’s consumers were boys. A tough statistic to swallow for those of us who grew up playing with Lego’s gender-neutral buckets of bricks. But the statistic came straight from Lego, which was then focused on boys with franchised sets based on properties like Star Wars and The…

  • We’ve got two words for you: Goth Barbie. Not only does such a thing exist, but after Barbie, it’s the best-selling doll in the world. The dolls of Monster High are bone-thin beauties all related to famous monsters. They come with books and Web episodes that follow their stories in that place where everyone feels…

  • The Tech Gonzo Scrapbook: Australia, PNG and “the boat people” – a quick political design fiction

    The Tech Gonzo Scrapbook: Australia, PNG and “the boat people” – a quick political design fiction m1k3y: — this is my rough, back of the envelope political design fiction; an attempt to envisage a positive outcome out of a nightmarish scenario that is #auspol under the leadership of Chairman Rudd Background: The PNG Government are…