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That idea reminds Wright of a sci-fi story by Bruce Sterling called Maneki Neko, named after Japanese gift cats. The story is about the “gift economy” where people contribute gifts to strangers and in return get back everything that they need. People can earn “karmic points” that can be redeemed, a common feature of social…
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The New Aesthetic: Street View is online in Germany and it includes — or rather, excludes…
The New Aesthetic: Street View is online in Germany and it includes — or rather, excludes… new-aesthetic: Street View is online in Germany and it includes — or rather, excludes — 244,000 addresses that Germans have demanded be pixelated. They have, in their word, demanded their Verpixelungsrecht.[…] I thought pixelating buildings was mostly just silly…
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In the days before smart phones, media players, and iDevices, there were Tamagotchis, the cute little egg-shaped devices that contained a digital pet. The pet needed to be taken care of daily. If they weren’t played with, fed and picked up after properly they would die, resulting in untold guilt for the child playing it.…
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Nowadays, of course, decades after my own youth, LEGO has broadened and deepened its offerings to include an infinity of models and expansion kits, elaborate parts and figures and robotic components, as well as narrative-based packages (Bionicles) and online games and design tools. But at the heart of the experience remains the Holy Brick, with…
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fyprocessing: TOK – a tangible interface for storytelling (video) (by Joao Martinho Moura) TOK is a learning platform that mixes the physical and the digital experience enriching and expanding the way children learn. At the moment it is shaped as a box, but we are exploring possibilities to integrate it into a book cover or…