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jtotheizzoe: LEGO has announced that they will produce a female scientist minifigure set! After last year’s release of a single female scientist minifigure by LEGO, designer Alatariel Elensar submitted concepts for a full minifigure set of female scientists to the LEGO Ideas competition. This week, after more than ten thousand people voted for Elensar’s project,…
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This past week marked the launch of our brand new game in the Metadata Games project: Stupid Robot. In this quick and easy arcade game, players score points by teaching the adorable robot words about the image they are presented with. Players strive to teach it one word of each length, 4-letters long to 10-letters…
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ch78productions: artofthetitle: Worldly Wednesday: A book is a loaded gun in the transmitted titles of François Truffaut’s Fahrenheit 451 (1966). Watch the Fahrenheit 451 sequence on Art of the Title I remember these credits. It stayed true to the nature of the book about a society that bans printed words. No words anywhere on screen- only a…
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This year, barring a last-minute outbreak of philanthropy among the editors of The New Yorker, I will be joining the 99.9 per cent of fans who watch the World Cup from their favorite couch or bar stool. It’s not quite the same as singing “Knees up Mother Brown” while dancing in circles outside Azteca following…
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prostheticknowledge: Printable Self-Folding Lamp Proof-of-concept tech from Harvard features shape changing electronics – video embedded below: From IEEE Spectrum: … Harvard researchers demonstrated a proof-of-concept lamp that can be printed out, folds itself, and includes both a mechanical switch and a capacitive touch sensor. The sensors are the big news here: they come straight out…
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emergentfutures: Researchers find people aren’t scared of small drones (at least those that look like fairies) There’s a very interesting new research paper from Texas A&M, who studied public reactions to small UAVs after the university did a performance of Shakespeare’s Midsummer’s Night Dream with drones (an AirRobot AR-100 quadcopter and some little Blade RC helis) at the fairies.…
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Hoefler, Frere-Jones, and the celebrity typographer
jkottke: “A Type House Divided“ is Jason Fagone’s feature for New York magazine on former partners Jonathan Hoefler and Tobias Frere-Jones, who split up earlier this year after disagreeing about the nature of their partnership. (TFJ thought he was a fifty-fifty partner; Hoefler says he was an employee.) While the story covers both sides of…