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blech: A Google Books ngram result for “Lego bricks” and “LEGOs”. The Lego Group themselves use the former; the latter is, as far as I know, exclusively known in the US: @54_52_4f_4c_4c The correct one “I have a box full of LEGO bricks” … “LEGO”, because it’s our brand name, shouldn’t be pluralized. 🙂 —…
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This robot band has a guitarist with 78 fingers | The Verge
This robot band has a guitarist with 78 fingers | The Verge All-robot band Compressorhead has some competition. British record label Warp Records will soon be releasing an album performed entirely by a three-piece band of Japanese robots called Z-Machines — the guitarist has 78 fingers, while the drummer rocks out with 22 arms. The…
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ELECTRONIC VISUALISATION AND THE ARTS (EVA) LONDON 2014 ************************************************* Tuesday 8th July – Thursday 10th July 2014 Venue: British Computer Society, Covent Garden, London WC2E 7HA www.eva-london.org Calling Masters and PhD students working in visualisation! CALL FOR RESEARCH WORKSHOP PROPOSALS *Deadline: end of day Friday 21st March 2014* ******************************************************************************** ELECTRONIC VISUALISATION TECHNOLOGIES IN…
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localflux: BIG BROTHER STARTUP An eight-person startup called Placemeter is working to cobble together video feeds from different sources and cover all or most of New York City’s sidewalks and public spaces within the next year or so. Founder Alexandre Winter estimates Placemeter needs about 2,000 to 3,000 well-placed cameras to cover 90% of the…
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explore-blog: Firefighter-turned-writer Caroline Paul and illustrator extraordinaire Wendy MacNaughton, the duo behind the magnificent and heartening Lost Cat: A True Story of Love, Desperation, and GPS Technology, settle the indoor vs. outdoor cat debate once and for all. Meanwhile, Margaret Atwood has a set of concerns on the subject. (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
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Is This the Future of Reading? MIT’s Experimental Sensory Book | MindShift
Is This the Future of Reading? MIT’s Experimental Sensory Book | MindShift teachingliteracy: This new invention from the MIT Media Lab will no doubt be controversial. Readers strap themselves into a robotic suit equipped with sensors that literally make the reader feel the emotions conveyed in the text as the reader flips pages. The video…
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shrinkrants: By John Naughton, The ObserverSunday, August 19, 2012 Thomas Kuhn: the man who changed the way the world looked at science Fifty years ago, a book by Thomas Kuhn altered the way we look at the philosophy behind science, as well as introducing the much abused phrase ‘paradigm shift’. Fifty years ago this month,…