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kateoplis: “Personally, I love what NBC has done with the Olympics. I always dreamed of living in an era before the Internet, without Twitter or online streaming or live breaking-news updates. And watching the tape-delayed Olympics on NBC, I feel like I’m there. It’s just like I pictured: I would gather around the large, box-shaped…
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kateoplis: “Personally, I love what NBC has done with the Olympics. I always dreamed of living in an era before the Internet, without Twitter or online streaming or live breaking-news updates. And watching the tape-delayed Olympics on NBC, I feel like I’m there. It’s just like I pictured: I would gather around the large, box-shaped…
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Electronic sensor rivals sensitivity of human skin
Electronic sensor rivals sensitivity of human skin unexpectedtech: A flexible electronic sensor made from interlocking hairs can detect the gentle steps of a ladybird and distinguish between shear and twisting forces, just as human skin can. It can also be strapped to the wrist and used as a heart-rate monitor. The sensor’s design, described today…
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Electronic sensor rivals sensitivity of human skin
Electronic sensor rivals sensitivity of human skin unexpectedtech: A flexible electronic sensor made from interlocking hairs can detect the gentle steps of a ladybird and distinguish between shear and twisting forces, just as human skin can. It can also be strapped to the wrist and used as a heart-rate monitor. The sensor’s design, described today…
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diy: Introducing Skills Today we’re launching an important new feature on DIY. We call it Skills. We’re starting small with our first 8 Skills: Circuit Bender, Fort Builder, Gamer, Gardener, Instrument Maker, n00b, Rocketeer, and Weaver. Skills are made of Challenges, which are awesome project ideas that Makers can solve by uploading photos and videos of their own inventions. Each Challenge is paired with the most…
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nonsenselab: Department of Biological FlowSlow Fade (Nano Gait Surf)July 29, 2012performanceVondelpark, Amsterdam – – – Brian Massumi: “You don’t affect a relational field by describing it, or the subjects or objects in it. If you’re going to use description, you have to find ways of making the description itself a performative intervention in the field.…
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nonsenselab: Department of Biological FlowSlow Fade (Nano Gait Surf)July 29, 2012performanceVondelpark, Amsterdam – – – Brian Massumi: “You don’t affect a relational field by describing it, or the subjects or objects in it. If you’re going to use description, you have to find ways of making the description itself a performative intervention in the field.…
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truefoes: truefoes: He wrote me that in the suburbs of Tokyo there is a temple consecrated to cats. I wish I could convey you the simplicity—the lack of affectation of this couple who had come to place an inscribed wooden slat in the cat cemetery so their cat Tora would be protected. No she wasn’t…
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We are moving from a world of problems, which demand speed, analysis, and elimination of uncertainty to solve, to a world of dilemmas, which demand patience, sense-making, and an engagement of uncertainty. – Denise Caron (via stoweboyd) Paul Higgins: Can be expressed as a move from complicated to complex where we move from systems thinking…
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We are moving from a world of problems, which demand speed, analysis, and elimination of uncertainty to solve, to a world of dilemmas, which demand patience, sense-making, and an engagement of uncertainty. – Denise Caron (via stoweboyd) Paul Higgins: Can be expressed as a move from complicated to complex where we move from systems thinking…