Tag: Emergent Digital Practices

  • The transistors will appear in Intel’s new “Ivy Bridge” microprocessor, which will be made using a 22nm manufacturing process and begin shipping later this year. Intel’s processor is the first make the jump from 32nm to 22nm, continuing the decades-long race to keep boosting the number of transistors that can be packed into the same…

  • After playing several hundred games to develop their language, the robots agreed on directions within 10 degrees and distances within 0.375 meters. And using just their invented language, the robots created spatial maps (including areas that they were unable to explore) that agree remarkably well: (via Lingodroid Robots Invent Their Own Spoken Language – IEEE…

  • In this week’s column, I’m going to talk about Google choosing the open source hardware platform (Arduino) for the “Android Open Accessory” kit, and why this matters. I’m also going to talk a little about how Google could make it better. And then, I’m going to do what I always do in many of my…

  • Why Google Choosing Arduino Matters – Slashdot

    Why Google Choosing Arduino Matters – Slashdot

  • Academic libraries have been beset by changes that have led some observers to wonder whether they have a future at all. Their budgets have been hit hard even as the cost of buying and storing information—whether print monographs or journal databases—continues to climb. Search engines have replaced librarians as the go-to source of information for…

  • drawnblog: More from illustrator Jason Levesque, as he shares a time lapse colouring of one of his pieces in Photoshop. Here’s the finished version below:  (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)

  • Cory Arcangel exhibition at The Whitney

    Cory Arcangel exhibition at The Whitney

  • wildandpeaceful: Environmentally Sound cardboard radio by Chris McNicholl. Produced as a flat sheet, user can easily assemble the radio without glue. 

  • There are two levels of the incentive. There’s a 35 percent tax credit on all Louisiana labor directly involved in the development of the interactive products. It wouldn’t include administration or executive work, but everyone that is actually involved in making and testing the game is eligible for that 35 percent tax credit on labor…

  • nevver: Flexbook, DesignBoom This is a mashup of the aforementioned work by Emilio Ambasz, and the “butterfly” keyboard that was used in an early IBM sub-notebook.