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Ben Bashford – Notebook of Things: DisplayCabinet
Ben Bashford – Notebook of Things: DisplayCabinet bashford: DisplayCabinet is the output of 24 hours with Tim Burrell Saward and Dan Williams “connecting up our things to the web, our environments to our things, and our things to us” as part of the Pachube Internet of Things Hackathon. What we did. The aim of our…
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Idea to Market in 5 Months: Making the Glif
russianpencil: On July 11th, 2010, Tom Gerhardt and I had an idea for an iPhone accessory: a tripod mount that doubled as a stand. Five months later, customers began to receive our product, the Glif, in the mail. This turnaround, from idea to market in five months by two guys with no retail or manufacturing…
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Cormac McCarthy and Werner Herzog Discuss the Intersection of Art and Science
Cormac McCarthy and Werner Herzog Discuss the Intersection of Art and Science kateoplis: Grab some bourbon, go out on the deck, sit in your rocking chair and listen.
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The Real Lesson of Cisco’s Billion-Dollar Flip Debacle
The Real Lesson of Cisco’s Billion-Dollar Flip Debacle cameronmoll: Michael Mace, partly refuting the assumption all of us made after yesterday’s “RIP Flip” announcement: Most online analysis of the announcement doesn’t really explain what happened. The consensus is that Flip was doomed by competition with smartphones, but that says more about the mindset of the…
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Frind’s online dating company, Plenty of Fish, is newly located on the 26th floor of a downtown skyscraper with a revolving restaurant on the roof. The gleaming space could easily house 30 employees, but as Frind strides in, it is eerily quiet – just a room with new carpets, freshly painted walls, and eight flat-screen…
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uuiuu: http://www.math.harvard.edu/archive/21b_fall_03/4dcube/4dcube.gif
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SCR is a creative label intended to serve as a platform for artworks and projects emerging from the recent digital/network media movements. Here we produce, develop, and sell various interactive art / software / motion-based projects, and lots more. As designers and artists taking part in the digital media industry, we have always wondered about…
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*Nothing too new in this attractive Tech Review article, except for that porous fabbed cement, which is the awesome. http://www.technologyreview.com/business/37218/?a=f *I’d like to see an article on how to repair and upgrade printed buildings. Every boutique building-printer device ought to come with a free printed copy of Stewart Brand’s “How Buildings Learn.” (via Architecture Fiction:…
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So here is the kicker. Android, as well as Chrome and Chrome OS for that matter, are not “products” in the classic business sense. They have no plan to become their own “economic castles.” Rather they are very expensive and very aggressive “moats,” funded by the height and magnitude of Google’s castle. Google’s aim is…
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The NETLab Toolkit is a system for tangible interaction sketching and production. It enables novices and experts to quickly integrate hardware, media and interactive behaviors for products, installations, and research. The NETLab Toolkit (which we often abbreviate as NLTK) is a project of The New Ecology of Things Lab. (via NETLab Toolkit)