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txchnologist: Take Your Medical Equipment On The Go Engineers have taken another step forward in the quest for wearable, wireless biosensors. This time, a team has assembled miniature sensors, circuits and radios suspended in fluids that act as a wearable, flexible electrocardiogram. The device, reported on April 4 in the journal Science, is significantly more than…
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prostheticknowledge: Apple Patents for Automatic 3D Avatar Creation and Emotional States Something to expect in the future in regards to online identity (both of which were filed today): A three-dimensional (“3D”) avatar can be automatically created that resembles the physical appearance of an individual captured in one or more input images or video frames. The…
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[Improv] makes you work with people better, just in general. And I don’t mean like work like at a job—just interact with people better. I keep going back to the same word “listening,” but it really is just that. Matt Besser (via ucbcomedy)
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Fear Of Twine
Fear Of Twine andreblyth: “Welcome to Fear of Twine, an online exhibition of hypertext games.”
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notational: Prototypo | the font generator : beta demo (by yannick mathey) Start a font by tweaking all glyphs at once. With more than twenty parameters, design custom classical or experimental shapes. Once prototyping of the font is done, each point and curve of a glyph can be easily modified. Explore, modify, compare, export with infinite…
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kateoplis: NPR covers all 2,428 miles of the US-Mexico border, so you don’t have to. The results are beautiful.
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moma: Join us for the one or all of the Design and Violence Debates! Debate II: April 10, 6:30-8PM, Bartos Theater The third debate focuses on the Menstruation Machine (2010), above, designed by Sputniko! (aka Hiromi Ozaki) to allow its wearer to experience the pain and tribulation of menstruation, regardless of his or her age or gender. Chris…
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georgp: Matthew Chen answers “What is programming?” and infuses art into science in his own special way, by finding truth in metaphor: We tend to think that only children play pretend, but everyone does it, all the time. We are creatures of meaning. […] In the audience’s mind, the actor IS a prince, and that…
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The politics of play – A Playful Path
The politics of play – A Playful Path
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Alan Kay’s Reading List
Alan Kay’s Reading List