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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…
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it8bit: The Chip: 8-Bit Typography Created by Gabriel Figueiredo Font available for download at fontstruct behance || Tumblr || Twitter
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If you watched the NBA Finals, you probably saw a couple of Nike commercials where LeBron was moving around the court or through the air as some stats popped up on the screen. As it turns out, those stats were provided by the Nike Hyperdunk Sport Pack ($250). At its core, the Hyperdunk is a…
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The purchase of expensive equipment seems to be determined more often by consumer habits leading to the purchase of only quality products than by a qualitative transformation of the photographic intention. In short, the sophistication of the available means comes to photography from outside; rather than resulting from the appearance of new requirements produced by…
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becoming wave: ourcatastrophe: concerns about book fetishisation aside, I am actually…
becoming wave: ourcatastrophe: concerns about book fetishisation aside, I am actually… ourcatastrophe: concerns about book fetishisation aside, I am actually mostly in favour of large personal book collections. I have several hundred books on my shelves and another 200-odd at my parents’ house that I could reclaim if I wanted to. the house I grew…
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As independent bookstores crash and burn in the United States and Britain, the book market in France is doing just fine. France boasts 2,500 bookstores, and for every neighborhood bookstore that closes, another seems to open. From 2003 to 2011 book sales in France increased by 6.5 percent. The French Still Flock to Bookstores (via…
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Zajal is a programming language designed to reduce the friction between creative vision and functioning software. Live coding allows artists to improvise code and experiment freely, turning programming into an act of sculpture rather than architecture. met Ramsey at eyebeam today. Software looks amazing. I am very excited to try this out. Zajal | eyebeam.org…
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This should mean it is also possible to create inkjet printable batteries./ futurescope: Spray on Paintable Batteries and Spray on Solar Power for Windows via nextbigfuture: Researchers at Rice University have developed a lithium-ion battery that can be painted on virtually any surface. The rechargeable battery created in the lab of Rice materials scientist Pulickel…
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Underpaid Genius: The World Is Burning
Underpaid Genius: The World Is Burning underpaidgenius: Bill McKibben says very well what a great number of climate observers are saying: the world is burning. While Colorado burns, Washington fiddles – Bill McKibben via the Guardian You ever wonder what global warming is going to look like? In its early stages, exactly like this. …
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Idleness is not just a vacation, an indulgence or a vice; it is as indispensable to the brain as vitamin D is to the body, and deprived of it we suffer a mental affliction as disfiguring as rickets. The space and quiet that idleness provides is a necessary condition for standing back from life and…