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A plea for openness
notgames: Now that there’s so much willingness, technology and skill to create beautiful virtual worlds, it’s disappointing how many videogames cling to obstacle-based designs. As if players have to earn the privilege to explore by passing an irrelevant test. Now is the time to open up this medium, to let go of our affections and…
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Last month, as Fujitsu began selling lettuce from the Aizu-Wakamatsu plant, Toshiba Corp. said it would begin growing vegetables inside a floppy disk factory near Tokyo that hasn’t been used for two decades. Later this year, Panasonic Corp. will start selling computer-program controlled greenhouses to grow spinach and other vegetables. And Sharp Corp. last year…
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Here is how the internship scam works. It’s not about a “skills” gap. It’s about a morality gap. 1) Make higher education worthless by redefining “skill” as a specific corporate contribution. Tell young people they have no skills. 2) With “skill” irrelevant, require experience. Make internship sole path to experience. Make internships unpaid, locking out…
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Taryn Simon: Image Atlas concerns the different ways of thinking about language in the future. It is about the global versus the local; about the loss of language and how we’re all communicating now through images and abbreviated text. We communicate much less these days through the considered written word. Is that creating the possibility…
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prostheticknowledge: Digital Revolution First of two pieces on a day trip to London covering events related to digital arts. This one is about the Digital Revolution exhibition at the Barbican. This was certainly an exhibition I had been looking forward to, being as it is on a subject close to this blog’s heart. The UK…
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zerostatereflex: Tangible Media MIT’s Tangible Media is coming along nicely, “Almost like a table of living clay, the inFORM is a surface that three-dimensionally changes shape, allowing users to not only interact with digital content in meatspace, but even hold hands with a person hundreds of miles away. And that’s only the beginning.”
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zerostatereflex: Tangible Media MIT’s Tangible Media is coming along nicely, “Almost like a table of living clay, the inFORM is a surface that three-dimensionally changes shape, allowing users to not only interact with digital content in meatspace, but even hold hands with a person hundreds of miles away. And that’s only the beginning.”
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txchnologist: Sewing Machine Makes Cheap Stretchy Component Needed For Wearable Tech And Soft Robots Purdue University engineers have come up with a new and simpler way to make stretchy connections for electronics. Such power- and information-transporting materials are needed for soft robotics, next-generation implants and wearable technologies to advance. The group used a regular sewing…