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futurescope: Motorola wants you to tattoo a smartphone microphone onto your throat From Engadget: Motorola has applied for a patent of a microphone with a tranceiver and power supply that is designed to be tattooed onto your throat. The idea is to capture vibrations directly from your larynx in order to cut out background noise…
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: the influencing machine
: the influencing machine The first person to examine the curiously symbiotic relationship between new technologies and the symptoms of psychosis was Victor Tausk, an early disciple of Sigmund Freud. In 1919, he published a paper on a phenomenon he called ‘the influencing machine’. Tausk had noticed that it was common…
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kottke.org: Yeah, I’m free-thinking
kottke.org: Yeah, I’m free-thinking jkottke: In 1999, Sugata Mitra left a computer in a New Delhi slum and watched what the neighborhood kids would do with it. With no prior computer experience, they quickly figured out how to work it. In subsequent experiments, Mitra used computers and very little adult oversight (what we refer to…
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Out of Hand: Materializing the Postdigital – we make money not art
Out of Hand: Materializing the Postdigital – we make money not art Publisher Black Dog Publishing writes: Out of Hand: Materializing the Postdigital examines the increasingly important role of digital fabrication in contemporary art, design, and architecture practice from 2005 to the present. New levels of expression will demonstrate the reciprocal relationship between art and innovation as seen…
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futurescope: Flexible Piano Using Graphene-Based Ink Graphene is currently more hype than reality. So it’s exciting to see a working prototype. From the Cambridge News Center: The printed piano demonstrates the potential of using graphene in real applications where printed electronics might be needed – such as heart monitors and other sensors. The research team…