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theatlantic: Freakonomics Teaches Us the Right Way to Bribe Kids A brand new study by Steven D. Levitt (of Freakonomics fame), John A. List, Susanne Neckermann, and Sally Sadoff finds that Chicago students in low-performing schools did better on tests when they were promised money or trophies for their good grades. But it wasn’t as simple as…
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it8bit: Indie Game: The Movie “I never did pixel art before FEZ, so I had to learn. You do that for 3 years and by the end of 3 years you’re a lot better than you used to be.” ~ Phil Fish, Designer for FEZ Buy and watch the full movie here or preorder the DVD. (Trailer)
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confessionsofagamergirl: carelesslycharged: Look who I found in my Tiny Tower! 🙂 (Taken with Instagram) I fucking actually love this game. Thinking of starting a weekly app review video – yay or nay?
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cotonblanc: cotonblanc-deactivated20150422: Eduard Hoffmann’s notebook documents the birth and early development of Neue Haas Grotesk and Helvetica. On this page from May 7th, 1957, he noted: “All characters: should be OK now”. Neue Haas Grotesk
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ibmsocialbiz: Companies have bought in to social media and online community to the extent that they think it’s important and have put some resources into funding community management positions and tools to enable community but there is still a lot of uncertainty about what to expect of both the roles and the tools. This framework…
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wnycradiolab: razorshapes: Explosion Playhouse by Dietrich Wegner I want in.
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smarterplanet: Founders of Leap Motion: Our Amazing 3D Tracking Will Be Everywhere | Singularity Hub In the past few weeks the Leap Motion device has sent shudders of delight through gadget lovers and computer designers alike by promising a new kind of ultra-accurate, and very cheap, optical 3D tracking for your desktop or laptop computer.…
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3D printing doll company Makielab reaches a milestone. Makie has recieved 100 pre-orders for its custom made 3D printed dolls so far. Makie.me is in its ‘Alpha’ phase and is allowing users to log on and design avatars which they then have the option of purchasing as a real life plastic doll. So far 1,846…
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thenewinquiry: thenewinquiry: In his essay for the Baffler about the disappointed expectations about flying cars and whatnot, David Graeber makes the often overlooked point that capitalism circumscribes technological development as much as it instigates it. In other words, technology can be developed to protect the status quo, not trasform it. When corporations and the governments that serve corporate interests…
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You once described the inventor’s life as “one of failure.” How so? I made 5,127 prototypes of my vacuum before I got it right. There were 5,126 failures. But I learned from each one. That’s how I came up with a solution. So I don’t mind failure. I’ve always thought that schoolchildren should be marked…