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The premise is fairly simple: anyone anywhere in the world can adopt one of Tan’s figurines online. Each figure is a hand-painted 2-cm Preiser scale model, infused with details that create distinct characters, such as superheroes, businessmen, or housewives. “Adopters” will also leave a short message and indicate whether they’d want the figurines’ “Finders” to…
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CFP: ACM Designing Interactive Systems 2014
CFP: ACM Designing Interactive Systems 2014 Vancouver, BC, Canada June 21-25, 2014 http://www.dis2014.org (http://www.dis2014.org/) IMPORTANT PAPER DEADLINES January 19, 2014, 11:59 pm PT: Submission deadline February 28, 2014: Review deadline March 17, 2014: Author notification April 13, 2014, 5:00 pm PT: Camera ready deadline for accepted papers THE CONFERENCE The ACM conference on Designing Interactive…
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emergentfutures: “Though 90% of U.S. households pay to receive as many as 180 channels, the average number of channels viewers watch has remained static at 18 for the past few years. Based on 2012 viewing levels, allowing consumers to choose their own channel packages would end up killing 124 networks.” — What Breaking Apart The…
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bobbycaputo: Mexican Border Project Documents Those Who Make Art, Not War In the years since Mexico, under former President Vicente Fox, declared war on the drug cartels of Mexico in 2006, most of the photojournalism from the border has focused on the inevitable violence. With more than 60,000 people dead and another 25,000 missing, such attention is warranted,…
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futurescope: Walk the Robot – Preliminary Outdoor Walking with Underactuated Bipedal Robot MARLO This is MARLO, part of University of Michigan and the successor of Rabbit and MABEL. Testing done on Saturday November 23, 2013 at 8 AM in front of the EECS Building on the University of Michigan North Campus. The temperature was -2 C (about…
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Why do poor people make stupid, illogical decisions to buy status symbols? For the same reason all but only the most wealthy buy status symbols, I suppose. We want to belong. And, not just for the psychic rewards, but belonging to one group at the right time can mean the difference between unemployment and employment,…
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the-science-llama: Physicists add ‘Quantum Cheshire Cats’ to list of quantum paradoxes Given all the weird things that can occur in quantum mechanics—from entanglement to superposition to teleportation—not much seems surprising in the quantum world. Nevertheless, a new finding that an object’s physical properties can be disembodied from the object itself is not something we’re used…