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thisistheverge: Crafting a bamboo phone: ADzero’s journey from concept to crowd-funding reality Are you ready for bespoke smartphones from indie companies?
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suicideblonde: Freddie Mercury’s vocal improvisation from Queen’s Wembley Stadium concert in 1986 One of my all time favorite Freddie moments that they just showed at the closing ceremonies! (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
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suicideblonde: Freddie Mercury’s vocal improvisation from Queen’s Wembley Stadium concert in 1986 One of my all time favorite Freddie moments that they just showed at the closing ceremonies! (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
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prostheticknowledge: Avatar mirrors users facial expressions in real-time using a standard webcam Via DigInfo News: A Keio University group, led by Associate Professor Yasue Mitsukura, has developed a method for measuring which way a person is facing and how their expression changes. This system achieves high speed and high precision, using an ordinary PC and…
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longreads: Japanese-pop star Hatsune Miku has millions of YouTube hits, sells tickets to her concerts at $76 a pop and has adoring fans from all around the world. She’s also not human: Created by Crypton Future Media, Miku is the most popular avatar created to sell Vocaloid 2, the singing synthesizer application originally developed by…
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hangingfire: “GQ: Nowadays nobody would struggle with feeling inferior for working in television instead of movies, the way someone like The Sopranos’ David Chase once did, right? Matthew Weiner: Oh, there’s still a hierarchy. Forgetting about remuneration and public adulation, there’s still a hierarchy in terms of the writer’s Olympic Dream. I have to warn…
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thenewinquiry: The transition from signs which dissimulate something to signs which dissimulate that there is nothing, marks the decisive turning point. The first implies a theology of truth and secrecy. The second inaugurates an age of simulacra and simulation, in which there is no longer any last judgment to separate truth from false, the real…
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pbsarts: Are Hologram Tupac and Hologram Freddie Mercury Nostalgia or New Aesthetic? Everyone has already heard about the Tupac Hologram that played at Coachella earlier this year. But with Queen’s recent announcement of a Hologram Freddie Mercury and TLC’s plans for a Hologram Lisa Left Eye Lopes, it looks Hologram pop stars are here to…
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thenewinquiry: thenewinquiry: Coachella. Tupac. Hologram. Taken apart, none of these things are new, or even revolutionary. But something fascinating happened after the debut of the Tupac hologram (henceforth: Holopac) at Coachella: people were, for however briefly, awestruck. Melissa Graeber, All Eyez on Not-Me
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emergentfutures: Queen’s Freddie Mercury Will Perform as ‘Optical Illusion’ Freddie Mercury will make a technology-enhanced appearance from beyond the grave at a tenth anniversary performance of the Queen musical We Will Rock You. But to be clear, the frontman — who died in 1991 — will not be a hologram. He will be an “optical illusion.”…