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To Stay Relevant in a Career, Workers Train Nonstop – Shaila Dewan via NYTimes.com
To Stay Relevant in a Career, Workers Train Nonstop – Shaila Dewan via NYTimes.com stoweboyd: Shaila Dewan via NYTimes.com Going back to school for months or years is not realistic for many workers, who are often left to figure out for themselves what new skills will make them more valuable, or just keep them from…
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Funding Opportunity for Digital R&D in the Arts, England
We’re inviting expressions of interest for the new £7 million Digital R&D Fund for the Arts. The Digital R&D Fund for the Arts is now open for applications. The Digital R&D Fund for the Arts is an exciting new £7 million pound fund for organisations with arts projects based in England working in collaboration with…
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prostheticknowledge: Laywood New 3D Printing filament allows makers to create objects in wood, created by Kai Parthy – via 3Ders.org: This wood filament LAYWOO-D3 is a wood/polymer composite – the filament contains recycled wood and harmless binding polymers. The material has similar thermal durability as PLA and can be printed between 175°C and 250°C. “After…
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A Simple Solution It’s easy to create and collaborate on a Ginkgotree course book. Every type of media is importable, so you can follow your curriculum, not the textbook’s. With Ginkgotree, course materials are tightly integrated with simple, yet powerful tools that make course management a breeze. Course pack collaboration and elearning through a personal…
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Despite the dominance of educational-software giant, Blackboard, the Hasbroucks think their product’s got a good shot, largely because of its relative simplicity. Ginkgo Tree presents an intuitive, visual interface, not unlike Tumblr’s dashboard. For each course and subject, professors can upload links and images, embed video, post comments, and – significantly – import a chunk…
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We regularly receive emails from readers confused as to the actual size of sensor used in digital cameras. Sensors (CCD / CMOS) are often refered to with an imperial fraction designation such as 1/1.8" or 2/3", this measurement actually originates back in the 1950’s and the time of Vidicon tubes. Those who find the specification…
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8bitfuture: Microsoft patent describes video games projected onto an entire room. Microsoft’s Future Immersive Gaming System describes an idea for a gaming system that uses an HDTV as a primary display, with a peripheral image projected onto other surfaces in the room to immerse the player in the game. The peripheral image appearing on the…
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In the old days, we used to just call these ‘bad ideas’. The new name is much more diplomatic. Anti Pattern (via thisway)
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prosthetic knowledge: Eye-tracking Fine Art: Odalisque a la culotte grise (Matisse), and the proposal of the “opsieme”
prosthetic knowledge: Eye-tracking Fine Art: Odalisque a la culotte grise (Matisse), and the proposal of the “opsieme” prostheticknowledge: a – the original b – areas of interest c – foveal and perifoveal visions Jean Paul Courchia proposes the idea of the “opsieme”, a visual unit equivalent to the ‘phoneme’ and ‘graphemes’ used to deconstruct sounds…
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The laser-powered bionic eye that gives 576-pixel grayscale vision to the blind | KurzweilAI
The laser-powered bionic eye that gives 576-pixel grayscale vision to the blind | KurzweilAI smarterplanet: (Credit: Nano Retina) Bionic eye implants are finally hitting the market — first in Europe, and hopefully soon in the U.S., ExtremeTech reports. These implants can restore sight to completely blind patients — though only if the blindness is caused by a…