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prostheticknowledge: The Clone Factory in Japan via Danny Choo Danny Choo checks out this company that can make action figures based on your own appearance. This can be with another pop-culture figure (like the one above), or a figure that has more resemblance to yourself. More photos about the process and other examples can be…
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‘Emotion Engine’? I Don’t Think So. Why can’t these game wizards be satisfied with their ingenuity, their $7 billion (and rising) in sales, their capture of a huge chunk of youth around the world? Why must they claim that what they are doing is “art”? And should anyone care whether this emerging medium is art…
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Products must appeal to human beings, and a rigorously cultivated humanistic sensibility is a valued asset for this challenge. That is perhaps why a technology leader of the highest status—Steve Jobs—recently credited an appreciation for the liberal arts as key to his company’s tremendous success with their various i-gadgets. It is a convenient truth: You…
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Bollen: Do you ever feel weird about fame? It does allow you to meet amazing people on this planet and do unimaginable things. Stipe: I love it. With the difficult parts of fame, that alone makes it so worthwhile, because of the doors it’s opened for me. I’ve worked really, really, really hard at what…
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Programming iPhone Sensors
Programming iPhone Sensors paperbits: O’Reilly Media is publishing a book on programming and communicating with sensor networks with iOS devices, called iOS Sensor Apps with Arduino. The examples and apps in the book rely on the Redpark Serial Cable, which provides a dock-connector–to-RS-232-serial link for iPhone, iPad, and the iPod Touch. This cable makes communicating…